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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... . Such must obvious- ly be the case with all the arts . Many a house must have been built , before a system of architect- ure could be formed ; many a poem composed , be- Philo- fore an art of poetry could be written . 10 Origin of oratory.
... written . The prac- tice must in the nature of things precede the theo- ry . All didactic treatises must consist of rules , resulting from experience ; and that experience can have no foundation , other than previous practice . Now the ...
... written five hundred years before that time ; and the Grecian Peloponnesus appears to have been first settled by a colony from Egypt , the same country , whence the Israelites issued to make the conquest of the promised land , and the ...
... written himself . Socrates was a teacher of philosophy , and as well as his follower , Plato , might have his personal reasons for oppos- ing the theories of the other sophists , who incul- cated other principles , but followed the same ...
... written nothing ; and Plato , nothing of his own . That Plato should have held himself out to the world , as the mere amanuensis of Socrates ; and that Socrates should have intrusted the registry of his opinions to so wild and eccentric ...
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