Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Mr. Adams's Oration.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06255 Author/Creator: Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Pamphlet Date: 1806 Pagination: 28 p. 21.2 x 13.1 cm Order a Copy
Elongated title on title page: "An Inaugural Oration, Delivered at the Author's Installation, as Boylston Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On Thursday, 12 June, 1806." Adams explains "the immeasurable superiority of ancient over modern oratory...The assemblies of the people, of the select councils, or of the senate in Athens Rome were held for the purpose of real deliberation. The fate of measures was not decided before they were proposed. Eloquence produced a powerful effect, only upon the minds of the hearers, but upon the issue of the deliberation." Printed by Munroe & Francis.
Notes: DAB lists this speech as among Adams's "more important writings." First Edition. I DAB 92. American Imprints 9800. Collateral to JQA letters to James Bridges, GLC 958 concerning oratory in the first Federal Congress.
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