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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... reputation and the excellency of the oratorical art fell alike into decay . Under the despotism of the Cæsars , the end of eloquence was perverted from persuasion to panegyric , and all her faculties were soon pal- sied by the touch of ...
... reputation , and be more useful to his fellow creatures , than the divine or the lawyer of equal learning and integrity , but un- blest with the talent of oratory ? But the pulpit is especially the throne of modern eloquence . There it ...
... reputation have stood the test of ages , better than his own ; which have sunk under the weight of his adversary's su- periority . Among the dialogues of Plato is one , entitled Gorgias , from the name of this rhetorician , and upon the ...
... reputation and in- fluence , until Cato , the censor , Antonius , the ora- tor , so highly celebrated by Cicero , and Cicero ' himself , deemed it no disparagement to devote their faculties to the improvement of their fellow citizens in ...
... reputation of universal knowledge was by no means necessary , and might be very prejudicial to a public speaker . Antonius begins then by controverting the opinion of Crassus . The talent of Antonius was principally defensive . His ...
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