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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... Fear occasions a tremor and hesitation of the voice , and assurance gives it strength and firm- ness . Admiration elevates the voice , and should be ex- pressed with pomp and magnificence . " O surprising clemency , worthy of the ...
... fear that a counting - house would give them full accommodation . Lest . I don't go so deep into these matters : but this is certain , that when the election comes , more than enough are willing to go . How . That , my friend , only ...
... fear - struck hearts . The sun , at noon - day dark : The earth convulsive underneath their feet , And the firm rocks , in shiver'd fragments rent , Rous'd them at once to tremble and believe . Then was our Lord by heathen lips confess ...
... fear And wonder seen of many : holy seers , Prophets and martyrs from the grave set free , And the first fruits of the redeemed dead . They , who with Christ transfigur'd on the mount Were seen of his disciples in a cloud Of dazzling ...
... fear that some of our tenants are too poor to endure a rent , double to what they now pay ; and I am certain it will be impossible for them all to remove , on account of the scarcity of houses to be ob- tained . Don P. That is not my ...
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