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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... justice , and screens the guilty from the punishment due to their crimes . Is there any thing which is not obnoxious to abuse ? Even the benign religion of the Prince of Peace has been made the unwilling instrument of the greatest ...
... justice , the equity , the policy , the expediency of the act to another time . I will only speak to one point , which seems not to have been generally understood . Some gentlemen seem to have considered it as a point of honor . If gen ...
... justice to a great man , the founder of transatlantic freedom ; I am to praise him in the name of the mother city of French liberty . I myself also am a man ; I am a freeman ; I possess the suffrages of my fellow - citizens : this is ...
... justice . If you increase your price of rent , increase my pay . Don P. I meddle not with your affairs . Look out for your pay among your employers . I am but one among many , and promise you that I shall not be fore- most to enhance ...
... JUSTICE , BY REASON OF PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT , 1770 . I MY LORDS , HAVE waited with patience to hear what argu- ments might be urged against the bill ; but I have waited in vain ; the truth is , there is no argument that can weigh ...
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