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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... 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 alter the looks , either by turning the eyes aside , or downwards ...
... fire , and who keeps alive , from age to age , such an enormous mass of flame ! Let us attend our philosophic guides , and we shall be brought acquainted with spec ulations more enlarged , and more amazing . This sun , with all ...
... fire I see yonder . Farewell . I am determined to swim over the water . Mer . By this touch of my wand , I deprive thee of all thy strength . Swim now if thou canst . Sav . This is a potent enchanter . Restore me my strength , and I ...
... fire of patriotism .. The laws which are to reform education , and with ît the national manners , are already prepared ; they will advance , they will fortify the cause of liberty by means of their happy influence , and become the ...
... fire of vice , exactly in the same manner as he electrified the heavens , in order peaceably to invite from them the terrible fire of the elements . Venerable old man ! august philosopher ! legislator of the felicity of thy country ...
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