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- GLC#
- GLC06255
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1806
- Author/Creator
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
- Title
- Mr. Adams's Oration.
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 28 p. : Height: 21.2 cm, Width: 13.1 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
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.
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