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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... leave him to me . I'll tutor him for you . Sirrah Savage , dost thou pretend to be asha- med of my company ? Dost thou not know that I have kept the best company in England ? Sav . I know thou art a scoundrel . Not pay thy debts ! kill ...
... leave Minos to judge . But what can be said for the Englishman ? Can we plead the custom of Duelling ? A bad excuse at the best ! but here it cannot avail . The spirit that urged him to draw his sword against his friend is not that of ...
... leave this for your con- sideration , whether I come down immediately , or wait till I hear some blood is spilled . Brothers ! I would not have you think by this , that we are falling back from our engagements . We are ready to do any ...
... leaving the justice , the equity , the policy , the expediency of the act to another time . I will only speak to one ... leave all measures of right and wrong , to follow a delusion that may lead to destruction . It is my opinion that ...
... whole , I will beg leave to tell the House what is really my opinion . It is , that the Stamp - Act be repealed absolutely , totally , and immediately . SCENE SCENE FROM THE FARCE OF LETHE . Enter Mr. and 60 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
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