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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... occasion pronounced the inaugural dis- course , which was soon after published , at the unanimous request of the students ; and which is now prefixed to his lectures . The professor immediately after his induction entered on the duties ...
... occasion , to be forcibly incul- cated . Like his admired Milton , it was his con- stant aim to point out " the right path of a virtu- ous and noble education . " In concurrence with the habitual genius of our Alma Mater , he consult ...
... on the thirty first of October ; and on that occasion de- livered an appropriate Latin address . He entered immediately on the duties of his office . February 26 , 1810 . CONTENTS . VOLUME FIRST . INAUGURAL ORATION PAGE . 9 viii.
... occasion , which called them forth . The art of embalming thought by oratory , like that of embalming bodies by ar- omatics , would have perished , but for the exer- cises of religion . These alone have in the latter ages furnished ...
... occasion , I may remark , that the modern Europeans have run into the adverse extreme , and appear , during a considerable period , in their system of public edu- cation , to have passed upon eloquence a sentence of proscription . Even ...
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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 |