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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... panegyric , and all her faculties were soon pal- sied by the touch of corruption , or enervated by the impotence of servitude . Then succeeded the midnight of the monkish ages , when with the oth- er liberal arts she slumbered in the ...
... panegyric . As the school of Gorgias and the other soph- ists gave rise to the two dialogues of Plato , upon the subject of rhetoric , so that of Isocrates occa- sioned the rival school of Aristotle , and led to the composition of that ...
... panegyric , and whom he pronounces superior , as an orator , to Lysias . Yet Isocrates preferred the system of his first master , Gorgias . It is much to be regretted , that the rhetorical work of Isocrates is no longer extant , because ...
... the world for talents and virtues , which he would have celebrated with ten - fold magnifi- cence of panegyric in others . To his cotempo- raries let us admit , that the sense of his 18 LECT . V. ] RHETORICAL WRITINGS . 137.
... panegyric , and to a superficial view may appear to have been ill judged at the court of Louis XIV , and ill timed in the funeral eulogy of a great general . It is precisely what constitutes its highest merit . In this definition there ...
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