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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... pulpit 321 LECT . XV . Intellectual and moral qualities of an orator 343 · LECT . XVI . Excitation and management of the passions • 367 LECT . XVII . Disposition . Exordium 391 LECT . XVIII . Narration . 411 AN INAUGURAL ORATION ...
... pulpit is especially the throne of modern eloquence . There it is , that speech is summoned to realize the fabled wonders of the orphean lyre . The preacher has no control over the will of his audience , other than the influence of his ...
... pulpit ; under all , the induce- ments I have suggested for coveting these splen- did and useful talents must have their force . There are others , which , if not exclusively appli- cable to our native country , and our present state of ...
... pulpit . In the endeavour to refute these petty cavils against rhetoric , which have no higher foundation , than a superficial misconception of its real charac- ter and object , I have perhaps consumed too much of your time . A more ...
... pulpit , of popular assem- blies , and of the bar . And this I suppose to be the division , with which you are most familiarly acquainted . There is one great advantage in it , arising from the circumstance , that two of the three ...
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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 |