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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... liberty was lost , all was lost . " That the passions have each of them both a differ- ent voice and action , is evident from hence , that we know in what manner a person is affected , by the tone of his voice , though we do not ...
... liberty . Athens was a republic , where the affairs of state were transacted in the assembly of the whole people . This afforded to eloquence a field too fertile to remain long uncultiva- ted by the ingenious Athenians . Orators soon ...
... liberty , as is consistent with the nature of man ; we possess as a nation all the advantages which climate , soil , and situation can bestow ; and nothing but real merit is here required as a qualification for the most dignified ...
... liberty or of my life , to expiate this young man's guilt , and to purchase his release ! Grant this request , not so much for the sake of the youth himself , as of his absent father , who never offended you , but who venerates your ...
... liberty is awakened , and springs up she sheds her divine light and creative powers upon the two hemispheres . A great nation , astonished at seeing herself free , stretches her arms from one extremity of the earth to the other , and ...
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