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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... effect as they are pronoun- ced . It is the action alone which governs in speaking ; without which the best orator is of no value ; and is often defeated by one , in other respects , much his in- ferior . " And he lets us know , that ...
... effect ; which must therefore have been chiefly ow ing to the wonderful address of the speaker . The more natural the pronunciation is , the more moving it will be ; since the perfection of art consists in its nearest resemblance to ...
... effect of a just and lively representation of what we know to be true . How agreeable it is , both to nature and ... effects of eloquence , which we never experience now . And what is said here , with respect to the action of the eastern ...
... effects might not justly be expected from such an institution ? Persons trained up in this manner , with all those advantages , joined to a good natural genius , could not fail of making very complete orators . Though even after they ...
... effect of it . But as gesture is very different and various as to the manner of it , which depends upon the decent conduct of several parts of the body , it will not be amiss to con- sider more particularly the proper management of each ...
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