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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... becoming and decent gesture ; for which purpose he used to pronounce his discourses alone before a large glass . And because he had an ill custom of drawing up his shoulders when he spoke , to amend that , he used to place them under a ...
... becomes criminal , because it is ruinous . Are these restraints any other , than what a wise man would choose to impose on himself ? We call you not to renounce pleasure , but to enjoy it in safety . Instead of abridging it , we ex ...
... becoming a man of wisdom and probity , and who , on account of his amiable qualities , is almost adored by the inhabitants of Syria and Canaan , though he professes a religion , and follows a mode of living totally different from theirs ...
... become the established mode , value themselves upon their liberality at the expense of the allies of the em- pire , and of their lenity to the robbers of the public treasury but let them not make a largess of our blood ; and , to spare ...
... become great and tall . You reach to the clouds . You are seen all round the world . I am become small ; very little . I am not so high as your as your knee . Now you take care of me ; and I look to you for protection . Brothers ! I am ...
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