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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... party spirit , by introducing a more compendious mode of securing decisions , has crippled the sublimest efforts of oratory , and the votes upon questions of magnitude to the interest of nations are all told , long before the questions ...
... parties , and discovering the ground still to be gone over . nary signification of the words , would be the idea , which the state of the controversy would convey . The state of the controversy among rhetoricians means quite another ...
... parties or their counsel to a point in litigation , that no cause can be given to a 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 ...
... parties to a suit ; the charge and the answer ; the reply and rejoinder ; the conflict of opposing assertions , which must all be in writ- ing , and by the means of which the parties must come to some specific point of fact , or of law ...
... parties to an issue , or a state of the controversy . And so anxious has the law been to obtain this desirable object , that a perfect knowledge of the doctrine of pleas and pleadings is equivalent to a knowledge of the whole science ...
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