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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... speaking , if not univer- sally acknowledged , has at least been universally felt . For the truth of these remarks , let me appeal to the testimony of history , sacred and profane . We shall find it equally clear and conclusive from the ...
... SPEAK WELL . And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people ; and he shall be , even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth , and thou shalt be to him instead of God . " It was not sufficient for the beneficent purpos es of divine ...
... speaking was of celestial origin , ascribed to the invention of a God , who , from the possession of this faculty , was supposed to be the messenger and interpreter of Olympus . It is attested by the solicitude , with which the art was ...
... speaking was the key to the highest dignities ; the passport to the supreme dominion of the state . The rod of Hermes was the sceptre of empire ; the voice of oratory was the thunder of Jupiter . The most powerful of human pas- sions ...
... speaking . Is it the Is it the purpose of your future life to minister in the temples of Almighty God , to be the messenger of heaven upon earth , to en- lighten with the torch of eternal truth the path of your fellow - mortals to ...
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