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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... Kings ; let us assume it for a Man , and let the tears of French- men mingle with those of Americans , in order to do honor to the memory of one of the Fathers of Lib- erty ! " The city of Paris , which once contained this philos- opher ...
... kings ; who have driven them from our territory ; have transferred to their dominions the scourge of war . You have not only conquered men ; you have overcome the obstacle thrown in your way by nature . You have triumphed over fatigue ...
... king of Babylon . Does not the same scripture say , that " He who oppresseth the poor , and Don P. Hush , I say ; one of my tenants approaches . Banish your womanish feelings ; and let not your un- ruly tongue betray your weakness . H 2 ...
... king , and to the beggar . Where is the justice , then , or where is the law , that protects a mem- ber of parliament more than any other man , from the punishment due to his crimes ? The laws of this coun- try allow of no place , nor ...
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