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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... carry him , without being obliged to sink again afterwards . Frequent inflections of the voice will likewise be some assistance to him . But especially he should take care to speak deliberately , and ease his voice , by allowing due ...
... as many ways by his gestures , as he himself could by words . And some dramas , called pan- tomimes , have been carried on wholly by mutes , who have performed every part by gestures only , without words have THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 19.
... carried to any pitch that may be afterwards necessary , without straining it . How- ever , some variation of the voice is always proper to give it harmony . Nay , and sometimes it is not im proper for an orator to set out with a ...
... carry back with us this son of his right hand , this staff of his old age , whom , alas ! you have condemned to slavery ? The good old man will expire in horrors dreadful to nature , as soon as he shall find that his son is not with us ...
... carried in my bed , so great was the agitation of my mind for the conse- quences , that I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor , to have borne my tes- timony against it . It is now an act that has ...
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