Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Հատոր 1Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 էջ 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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... give , under that head , a detailed analysis of the productions of the most distinguished orators , ancient and modern . However the author may have regretted , that these lectures were thus destined to appear before the world without ...
... gives us power to stand , though leaving us free to fall . Here then is an unbounded and inexhaustible field for eloquence , never explored by the ancient orators ; and here alone have the modern Europeans cultivated the art with much ...
... give one of his own . Among the ma- ny imperfect , redundant , and affected forms , which this rage for novelty of expression , and this studi ed indocility to the toils of preceding laborers , have occasioned , I shall present to your ...
... - clusively in possession of persuasion . To enume- rate all the instruments of persuasion , would be to give a catalogue of all the passions and motives , which can , without the exercise of force , be 36 [ LECT . I. GENERAL VIEW OF.
... give rules for a system of private conversation in the domestic intercourse of a family , or in the ordinary associations of business or of friendship . There are doubtless frequent occasions , when the means of oratorical persuasion ...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of ..., Հատոր 1 John Quincy Adams Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1810 |
Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of ..., Հատոր 1 John Quincy Adams Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1810 |