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Lectures on Oratory and Rhetoric

Volumes I & II

 

By John Quincy Adams


LECTURES


ON

RHETORIC AND ORATORY,


DELIVERED

TO THE CLASSES OF SENIOR AND JUNIOR SOPHISTERS
IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.


BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, LL.D.

LATE BOYLSTON PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ORATORY




IN TWO VOLUMES


VOLS. I. & II.



CAMBRIDGE:
PRINTED BY HILLIARD AND METCALF.

1810.


DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT;

♦♦♦♦
SEAL
♦♦♦♦
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 sophisters 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 pro-
“prietors 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.”

W. S. SHAW, clerk of the district of Massachusetts.


Table of Contents

Volume I

     Advertisement.
     Inaugural Oration.
Lecture I. General View of Rhetoric and Oratory.
Lecture II. Objections Against Eloquence Considered.
Lecture III. Origin of Oratory.
Lecture IV. Origin and Progress of Oratory at Rome.
Lecture V. Cicero and His Rhetorical Writings.
Lecture VI. Institutes and Character of Quinctilian.
Lecture VII. Constituent Branches of Rhetoric.
Lecture VIII. State of the Controversy.
Lecture IX. Topics.
Lecture X. Arguments and Demonstrative Oratory.
Lecture XI. Deliberative Oratory.
Lecture XII. Judicial Oratory. [Part I.]
Lecture XIII. Judicial Oratory. [Part II.]
Lecture XIV. Eloquence of the Pulpit.
Lecture XV. Intellectual and Moral Qualities of an Orator.
Lecture XVI. Excitation and Management of the Passions.
Lecture XVII. Disposition. Exordium.
Lecture XVIII. Narration.

Volume II

Lecture XIX. Proposition and Partition.
Lecture XX. Confirmation. Ratiocination.
Lecture XXI. Ratiocination. Induction.
Lecture XXII. Confutation.
Lecture XXIII. Digression and Transition.
Lecture XXIV. Conclusion.
Lecture XXV. Elocution. Purity.
Lecture XXVI. Perspicuity.
Lecture XXVII. Composition. Order.
Lecture XXVIII Juncture. Number.
Lecture XXIX. Sentences.
Lecture XXX. Figurative Language. [Part I.]
Lecture XXXI. Figurative Language. [Part II.]
Lecture XXXII. Figurative Language. [Part III.]
Lecture XXXIII. Figures. Metaphor. Allegory.
Lecture XXXIV. Metonymy. Synecdoche.
Lecture XXXV. Memory.
Lecture XXXVI. Delivery.
     Conclusion.

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