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Lectures on Oratory and Rhetoric
Volumes I & II
By John Quincy Adams |
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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. |
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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT;
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♦SEAL♦
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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
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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.
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