Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Bind 1Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 sider 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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... and moral qualities of an orator LECT . XVI . Excitation and management of the passions 343 367 LECT . XVII . Disposition . Exordium 391 LECT . XVIII . Narration . 411 AN INAUGURAL ORATION , DELIVERED AT THE AUTHOR'S INSTALLATION , X.
... narrative of real events , a school of rhetoric and oratory , established in the Peloponnesus , dawns upon our view . After the lapse of a thousand years from that time , Pausanias , a Grecian geog- rapher and historian , explicitly ...
... to raise doubts con- cerning the reality of the whole history , and even to contend , that no such city as Troy ever existed , + But the great outlines of the narrative are so con- 76 [ LECT . III . ORIGIN OF ORATORY .
... narrative are so con- nected with unquestionable events , that it requires at least as large a share of credulity to believe in the accuracy of the modern systems , as in the fidelity of the ancient tales . For my own part I find it as ...
... narrative of a dialogue , or conversation between the orator and his friends , Atticus and Brutus ; for it is not immaterial to observe how Cicero , in writing so many works upon the same general subject , has given to his discussions ...
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