The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together with Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of EloquenceCaleb Bingham and Company and sold at their bookstore, no. 45, Cornhill, 1817 - Всего страниц: 300 The Columbian Orator, Caleb Bingham's classic work of 1797, contains both the oratory of the American Founding Fathers alongside imagined speeches from gifted orators of past epochs. Exceptional both for its contents and greater impact upon the fledgling society of the United States, this compendium of fine speech carries great historical and cultural value. As well as American speeches, this collection contains historic addresses from Europe, ranging back to ancient Rome. From about 1800 to 1820 it was recited and taught widely in schools across the US, instilling the importance of both patriotic pride in the new nation and the value of eloquent speaking. Bingham hoped to create a new generation of passionate American speakers, that leadership in the future would carry a wellspring of honed rhetorical talent from which to draw. Notably, several entries in this collection articulate opposition to slavery, which at the time was legal and widely practiced in the USA. It discusses the lack of ethics enslavement entails, thereby capturing the hearts and inspiring the-then fledgling abolitionist movement of America. Bingham's work was paid tribute in later decades by talented speakers such as Frederick Douglass, who read this book many times as an enslaved child, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who authored the famous anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
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... France , and was killed while I was out upon a scalping party . But I died very well satisfied : for my brethren were vic- torious ; and , before I was shot , I had gloriously scalp- ed seven men , and five women and children . former ...
... France , Sav . Eat ! did you ever eat the liver of a French- man , or his leg , or his shoulder ? There is fine eating for you ! I have eat twenty . My table was always well served . My wife was esteemed the best cook for the dressing ...
... France have rendered the most solemn homage to his memory . They have said , " A friend of humanity is dead : mankind ought to be overwhelmed with sorrow ! Na- tions have hitherto only worn mourning for Kings ; let us assume it for a ...
... France , to America , to posterity . I am now to do justice to a great man , the founder of transatlantic freedom ; I am to praise him in the name of the mother city of French liberty . I myself also am a man ; I am a freeman ; I ...
... France , and they only are fit to applaud you ! You have attained the utmost of what your sex is capable ; you possess the beauty , the simplicity , the manners , at once natural and pure ; the primitive graces of the golden age . It ...
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