Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Volumen1Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 páginas Before becoming President of the United States, John Quincy Adams was a Harvard professor of language, rhetoric and oratory, with this book comprising his lectures. Published in 1810 when Quincy Adams was in his forties, this work is a collection which demonstrates the breadth of knowledge which he passed to students eager to learn about the arts of speaking. The early lectures cover the basic principles of oratory and eloquence in the context of public speaking, and the origins of rhetoric as a celebrated art form in ancient Greece and Rome. It is clear that the author possesses an intense knowledge of the subject and its professional application. Later on in the text are more specific lectures, such as the importance of perfecting oratory for the courtroom, and the personal qualities a good speaker should cultivate. Keeping tight control of one's emotions when speaking or debating with others, and delivering compelling lectures from the church pulpit, are also discussed at length. Although this material is well over 200 years old with much of the language archaic by modern standards, the ideas and principles espoused by Quincy Adams remain both relevant and important to students and those working in fields where speech is vital. |
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... jury ; that is , at the very crisis , when the contest is to be decided by the au- thority of the land fearning and judgment are of no avail to the client or his counsel , without the assistance of an eloquent voice to make them 7 LECT ...
... juries , their addresses to petit - jurors , on summing up causes , and the assignment of reasons , which they often give for their decisions . It may be deemed perhaps only one modification of judicial eloquence , but its prop- er ...
... jury , or come to the judges for decision , by the practice of the common law , until the written pleadings have brought the case to an issue , and until that issue has been joined , Now this issue , in judicial trials , as I have ...
... jury ; and you famil- iarly say , I heard such a lawyer plead such a cause , and he spoke well or ill ; he made a good or a bad plea . The expressions in this sense are not incor- rect , because the universality of their usage has ...
... jury there- fore are upon questions with the state of conjec- The reason given for thus calling it is , that , being a question of fact , asserted by one par- ty and denied by the other , the decision depends upon the conjecture of the ...
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