Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, المجلد 1Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 من الصفحات 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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... ORATION PAGE . 9 LECT . I. General view of rhetoric and oratory 33 LECT . II . Objections against eloquence considered 53 LECT . III . Origin of oratory 73 LECT . IV . Origin and progress of oratory at Rome · 95 LECT . V. Cicero and his ...
... oratory 229 LECT . XI . Deliberative oratory 253 LECT . XII . Judicial oratory 277 LECT . XIII . Judicial oratory 297 LECT . XIV . Eloquence of the pulpit 321 LECT . XV . Intellectual and moral qualities of an orator 343 · LECT . XVI ...
... Sophisters in Harvard University John Quincy Adams. AN INAUGURAL ORATION , DELIVERED AT THE AUTHOR'S INSTALLATION , AS BOYLSTON PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ORATORY . INAUGURAL ORATION . IT is the fortune of some opinions INAUGURAL ORATION ...
... 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 asserts , that he had read a treatise upon the art ...
... orator must be a man of universal knowledge . Moral duties were inculcated , because none but a good man could be an orator . Wisdom , learning , virtue herself , were estimated by their subserviency to the pur- poses of eloquence , and ...