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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... principles , on which the true dignity and beauty of the human character depend , will be found , on every fit occasion , to be forcibly incul- cated . Like his admired Milton , it was his con- stant aim to point out " the right path of ...
... principles of exposition , novelty will not be expected ; nor is it perhaps to be de sired . A subject , which has exhausted the genius of Aristotle , Cicero , and Quinctilian , can neither require nor admit much additional illustration ...
... cause and its effect ; and in the progress of our discussion we shall have fre- quent occasion separately and distinctly to exam- ine as well the principles of the rhetorician , as 34 [ LECT . I GENERAL VIEW OF LECT II.
... principles of the rhetorician , as the performances of the orator . The definitions of rhetoric , by the ancient writ- ers upon the art , are so numerous and so various , not only in the selection of their terms , but in the ideas ...
... principle . There is no better test for the correctness of any precept in the science of rhetoric , nor for the excellence of any example in the practice of oratory , than its apti- tude to persuasion . But as the object of a scien ...
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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 |