Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, 第 1 卷Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - 160 頁 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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... the eagerness to acquire the faculties of this mighty magician . Oratory was taught , as the occupation of a life . The course of instruction commenced with the infant : in the cradle , and continued to the meridian INAUGURAL ORATION . 19.
... faculties were soon pal- sied by the touch of corruption , or enervated by the impotence of servitude . Then succeeded the midnight of the monkish ages , when with the oth- er liberal arts she slumbered in the profound dark- ness of the ...
... faculties of your life to the cause of truth , of freedom , and of humanity . 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 ...
... faculties , has treated of them in two distinct works ; and unfolded their mysteries with all the energies of his profound , comprehensive , and discriminating genius . Equally proper and necessary will it be to separate in our minds ...
... are yet extant , were composed at eighteen . At twenty four he lost his faculties , and continued during the remainder of his life in With a state , not far removed from idiotism . LECT . III . ] ORIGIN OF ORATORY . 91.