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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... a passage in an oration of Gracchus , wherein he bewails the death of his brother , who was killed by Scipio , which in his time was thought very moving : " Unhap- PY py man ( says he , ) whither shall I 28 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
... brother's blood . Shall I go home , and behold my unhappy mother all in tears and despair ? " " Though Gracchus had a very ill design in that speech , and his view was to excite the populace against their governors , yet ( as Cicero ...
... that , co - operating with the foe of God and man , thou degradest human nature , and blastest the opening pros- pects of human felicity . JUDAH'S JUDAH'S PLEA FOR HIS BROTHER BENJAMIN , BEFORE JOSEPH IN 40 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
... brother pe- culiarly dear to him , as the children born towards the end of their life generally are to old men , and who is the only one remaining of his mother ; his brother hav- ing come in early youth to a most tragical end . You ...
... BROTHERS ! OU remember , when you first came over the great waters , I was great and you were little very small . I then took you in for a friend , and kept you under my arms , so that no one might injure you . Since that time we have ...
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