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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... hope is , that if , in exe- cuting this task , I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances , or by an af- fectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow - citizens , and ...
... hope a day may be soon appointed to consider the state of the nation with respect to America . I hope gentlemen gentlemen vill come to this debate with all the temper 58 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . Speech in the British Parliament, 1766 PITT.
... hope of socie- ty . It must be acknowledged , that , in his own coun- trv , he addressed himself to minds capable of compre- hending him . Immortal Immortal females of America ! I will tell it to 46 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
... hope the time is not far distant , when I shall be out of the reach of your oppressive hands . [ Exit . Don P. [ Solus . ] Every man I deal with is trying to cheat me . Mankind are by nature all knaves . I am afraid to trust even my ...
... hope my suspicions have been ground- less . Aman . Let us trust ourselves to their care . I am anxious to know the sequel . SCENE III . Hamet's House . Hamet . [ Solus . ] The grateful day returns , that brings to mind my generous ...
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