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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... officers . There is not a com- pany of foot that has served in America , out of which you may not pick a man of sufficient knowledge and experience , to make a governor of a colony there . But on this ground , on the Stamp - Act , when ...
... officer to tumble all your goods into the street , and you and your children after them . Ten . Then a good Providence has preserved us . Don P. Providence has smiled upon me , I confess , in granting me such a riddance . Ten . I ...
... Officer , Auctioneer , Guards , Attendants , Purchasers of Slaves , & c . IN ACT I. - SCENE I. A Garden . AMANDAR solus , confined with a chain . N vain the flowers spread their gaudy colours , and fill the air with fragrance . The sun ...
... OFFICER . Officer . Noble Sir , the sale of prisoners begins in half an hour . Is it your pleasure to attend the auc- tion ? Hamet . It is . Have them upon the spot , and see that they are treated with humanity . [ Exit Officer . Ill ...
... OFFICER , with a drawn sword ; Zanga and GORTON , with swords , followed by prisoners pin- oned ; Sailors in the rear ; AUCTIONEER , & c . SHARP , a negro , standing by Gorton . OFFICER bringing forward sick and wounded . Auctioneer ...
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