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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... happy man , whom fate ordains , May write his name , and take her for his pains . One instance more , and only one I'll bring ; ' Tis the great man who scorns a little thing ; Whose thoughts , whose deeds , whose maxims are his own ...
... happy . Mrs. Tat . Well , give it me whilst I am in humour , or I shall certainly change my mind again . Es . Be patient till the rest of the company drink , and divert yourself in the mean time with walking in the grove . Mrs. Tat ...
... happy state which puts us at ease with society and with ourselves . The prov- erbs of " Old Henry , " and " Poor Richard , " are in the hands both of the learned and the ignorant ; they contain the most sublime morality , reduced to ...
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