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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... but from the exercise of arms and the palestra . " And Quintilian says to the same purpose , Every -gesture and motion of the comedians is not to be imi- 66 tated , tated , nor to the same degree . They thought 12 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
... arms any way , is by all means to be avoid- ed . Their action should generally be very moderate , and follow that of the hands ; unless in very pathetic expressions , where it may be proper to give them a more lively spring . Now , all ...
... arms our ancestors rendered this Commonwealth so great , from so small a beginning . If it had been so , we should now see it much more flourishing , as we have more al- lies and citizens , more horse and foot , than they had . But they ...
... arms , so that no one might injure you . Since that time we have ever been true friends : there has never been any quarrel between us . But now our conditions are changed . You are become great and tall . You reach to the clouds . You ...
... arms from one extremity of the earth to the other , and embraces the first nation that became so : the foundations of a new city are cre- ated in the two worlds ; brother nations hasten to in- habit it . It is the city of mankind ! One ...
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