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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... give every syllable its full and distinct sound ; which will render what he says obscure , and difficult to be understood . He should therefore take care to keep his voice within reach , so as to have it under management , that he may ...
... gives them a pain till it is over ; and this puts them into a hurry of mind , which incapacitates them from governing their voice , and keeping it under that due regulation which perhaps they proposed to themselves before they began to ...
... give ourselves what qual- ities of the voice we please ; but only to make the best use we can of what nature has bestowed upon us . However , several defects of the voice are capable of being helped by care and proper means ; as , on ...
... gives this reason for it . " Because other parts of the countenance have but few motions ; whereas all the passions of the soul are expressed in the eyes , by so many different actions ; which cannot possibly be represented by any ...
... give them a more lively spring . Now , all bodily motion is either upward or down ward , to the right or left , forward or backward , or else circular . The hands are employed by the orator in all these except the last . And as they ...
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