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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... Heavens PAGE . 7 PERKINS 30 WASHINGTON 34 P. EMILIUS 36 BLAIR 38 PHILO 41 MUIR 43 HERVEY 44 Paper , a Poem FRANKLIN 46 Speech before the Roman Senate CATO 48 Dialogue between Duellist , Savage , and Mercury LITTLETON 50 Speech of an ...
... Heaven , they must be elevated , but never raised above the eyes ; and in speaking of things below us , they are directed downwards . Side motion should generally be- gin from the left , and terminate gently on the right . In ...
... Heaven must be made in a loftier tone than those to men . few hints for expressing the principal passions may , if duly attended to , suffice to direct our practice in others . Though , after all , it is impossible to gain a just and ...
... HEAVENS . O us who dwell on its surface , the earth is by far the most extensive orb that our eyes can any where behold . It is also clothed with verdure ; dis- tinguished by trees ; and adorned with a variety of beautiful decorations ...
... heaven , about which , the globe we inhabit , and other more spacious orbs , wheel their stated courses . The sun , though seem- ingly smaller than the dial it illuminates , is abundant- ly larger than this whole earth ; on which so ...
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