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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... Human Nature Infernal Conference Speech in the British Parliament , 1777 On the Day of Judgment The dissipated Oxford Student CUMBERLAND 205 Altered from BURNEY 219 Speech in Congress , on the British Treaty Oration on Independence ...
... human machine co - operate in the production of the desired effect . The astonishing powers of eloquence are well known , at least to those who are conversant in ancient history Like a resistless torrent , it bears down every obstacle ...
... human acquirement . An Alexander and a Cesar could conquer a world ; but to overcome the passions , to subdue the ... humanity . But though the names of many have been trans- mitted to us , whose genius and eloquence demand our ...
... humanity , which distinguishes the Americans , and their free and popular government , are so many springs , which , though not instantaneous in their operation , cannot fail in time to raise Co- lumbian eloquence " above all Greek ...
... human defect , that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happi- ness of the people of the United States , a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes ; and may enable every instrument employed in ...
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