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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... death , as Quintilian tells us , did not appear answerable to his character ; from whence he justly concludes , there must have been something pleasing when he spoke , by which he gained his character , which was lost in reading them ...
... 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 .
... death in the face ; for I am shielded by the consciousness of my own recti- tude . I may be condemned to languish in the recesses of a dungeon . I may be doomed to ascend the scaf- fold . Nothing can deprive me of the recollection of ...
... death . So I am well revenged , and that is a comfort . For my part , I had no wife . I always hated marriage : my mistress will take good care of herself , and my chil- dren are provided for at the foundling hospital . me soon ; Sav ...
... death song , or the war whoop . I challenge you to sing . Come , begin . The fellow is mute . Mercury , this is a liar . He has told us nothing but lies . Let me pull out his tongue . Duel . The lie given me ! and alas ! I dare not re ...
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