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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... talent of public speaking was the key to the highest dignities ; the passport to the supreme dominion of the state . The rod of Hermes was the sceptre of empire ; the voice of oratory was the thunder of Jupiter . The most powerful of ...
... talent was in a more than usual degree the creature of disci- pline ; and it is one of the maxims , handed down to us , as the result of their experience , that men must be born to poetry , and bred to eloquence ; that the bard is ...
... So shall your country ever gladden at the sound of your voice , and every talent , added to your accomplishments , become another bless- ing to mankind . LECTURE I. Y GENERAL VIEW OF RHETORIC AND ORATORY . INAUGURAL ORATION . 31.
... talent itself in the person of the speak- er , and denominate his system of oratory , the ora tor . The English language however has been less scrupulous in its adherence to the niceties of etymology . It has admitted the term oratory ...
... talents are precious , not only to your- selves , but to your connexions , and to your coun- try . They ought therefore not to be wasted upon any trifling or unprofitable , and much less to be mispent upon any mischievous pursuit . In ...
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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 |