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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... believe it can scarcely be discernible to any , in reading it , how it should have had so surprising an effect ; which must therefore have been chiefly ow ing to the wonderful address of the speaker . The more natural the pronunciation ...
... believe those we have mentioned , if duly attended to , will be found sufficient to answer all the purposes of our modern pronunciation . The other sort of gestures above mentioned are such as arise from imita- tion ; as where the ...
... believe ,. that the same gods , who have occasioned Macedonia to fall to my lot , will also assist me with their protec- tion in conducting and terminating this war success- fully . But of this , I may venture to assure you , that I ...
... least as great as the creation of matter from nothing . Adhering then to the testimony of scripture , we believe , that that " in the beginning , God created , " THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 55 On the Creation of the World BLAIR.
... believe you , madam ; pray , how long have you been married ? you seem to be very young , madam . Mrs. Tat . I am old enough for a husband , and have been married long enough to be tired of one . Es . How long , pray ? Mrs. Tat . Why ...
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