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Author: John Quincy Adams Publisher: Pantianos Classics ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 466
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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.
Author: John Quincy Adams Publisher: Pantianos Classics ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 466
Book Description
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.
Author: John Quincy Adams Publisher: ISBN: 9781331057062 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 436
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Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, Vol. 1 of 2: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University Be it remembered, that on the first day of January, in the thirty fourth year of the independence of the United States of America, Hilliard & Metcalf of the said district have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim, as proprietors, in the words following; to wit, "lectures on rhetoric and oratory, delivered to the classes of senior and junior sophister in Harvard university, by John Quincy Adams, LL.D. late Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory. In two volumes." In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times, therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times, therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: John Quincy Adams Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781332058006 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 408
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Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, Vol. 2 of 2: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University Finally the discourse may apply to several propositions, entirely distinct and separate from each other. In such cases the orator is sometimes compelled by the abundance of his subject to di vide his discourse into several distinct orations, each of itself complete. The proposition is sometimes used to express the object to be obtained in consequence of the measure proposed; and in these cases a number of subordinate propositions may be combined for the accomplishment of one. Thus in Burke's speech on conciliation with America, immediately after the exordium and the narration, he says the proposition is peace. Not peace through the me dium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, foment ed from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace; sought in its natural course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: John Quincy Adams Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781294680529 Category : Languages : en Pages : 440
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Author: Hugh Blair Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265470077 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 446
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Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 1 of 2 Indeed, when the arts of speech and writing are mentioned, I am sensible that prejudices against them are apt to rise in the minds of many. A sort of art is immediately thought of, that'is ostenta tious and deceitful; the minute and triļ¬ing study of words alone; the pomp of expression the studied fallacies of rhetoric; ornament substituted in the room of use. We need not wonder, that, under such imputations, all study of discourse, as an art, should have suffered in the opinion of men of understanding; and I am far from denying, that rhetoric and criticism have sometimes been so ma naged as to tend to the corruption, rather than to the improvement, of good taste and true eloquence. But sure it is equally possible to apply the prin ciples of reason and good sense to this art, as to any other that is cultivated among men. If the following Lectures have any merit, it will consist in an endeavour to substitute the application of these principles in the place of artificial and scholastic rhetoric; in an endeavour to explode false orna ment, to direct attention more towards substance than show, to recommend good sense as the founa dation of all good composition, and simplicity an essential to all true ornament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: John Quincy Adams Publisher: Andesite Press ISBN: 9781296543068 Category : Languages : en Pages : 444
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