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Excerpt from Oral Communication: A Short Course in Speaking The roll of those who have written on the principles of public speaking includes the names of many of the most prominent men in history: Plato and Aristotle, the greatest philosophers and teachers of ancient Greece; Cicero, one of the two foremost public speakers of the ancient world; Quintilian, the Roman teacher, whose treatise on the educa tion of the public speaker (institutes of Oratory) is one of the basic educational works of all time; Tacitus, the Roman historian; St. Augustine, one of the most distinguished fathers of the Church; Erasmus, the great Renaissance scholar; Thomas Hobbes and Francis Bacon, two of the most distinguished of English philosophers; Fenelon, the eminent French bishop; and john Quincy Adams, the great American scholar, teacher, and President. Each age has had many good teachers and writers on the subject, and in every age the study of public speaking has had a place in educa tion - often a prominent place. 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.

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