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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... express their sentiments ; such as putting ashes on their heads , tearing their garments , and covering themselves with sackcloth under any deep distress and sorrow of mind . And hence , no doubt , arose those surprising effects of ...
... express desire in as moving a manner as the softest language ; and a differ- ent motion of it , resentment . To wring the hands , tear the hair , or strike the breast , are all strong indications of sorrow . And he , who claps his hand ...
... express love , hatred , joy , sorrow , modesty , and con- fidence by this we supplicate , threaten , soothe , invite , forbid , consent , or refuse ; and all this without speaking . Nay , from hence we form a judgment not only of a per ...
... express it by , we endeavour to represent by metaphors taken from fire , the most violent and rapid element ; and say in such cases , the eyes sparkle , burn , or are inflamed . In expressions of hatred or detestation , it is natural to ...
... express my fierceness and valour . In a Duel . Bloody Bear , I respect you , and am much your humble servant . My name is Tom Pushwell , very well known at Arthur's . I am a gentleman by my birth , and by profession a gamester and a man ...
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