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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... live in a republic , the orator's natal soil ; we enjoy as much 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 ...
... lives with her papa and mamma , who breed her up till she learns to despise them , and resolves to do nothing they bid her ; this makes her such a prodigious favorite , that she wants for nothing . And when once she is her own mistress ...
... boy . Learn henceforth to estimate men's hands by their deeds , their lips , by their words , and their hearts , by their lives . ORATION ORATION DELIVERED AT PARIS BY CITIZEN CAR- Not , PRESIDENT THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 81.
... live forever in our hearts ; your children will be dear to us ; the republic will repay to them the debt they owe to you ; and we discharge here the first , by proclaiming your glory and our grat- itude . Republican armies , represented ...
... live in my houses rent free if they could . This , I am persuaded , they learned of my father ; but I'll soon teach them to expect different things . Rather than matters should go on at such loose ends , I'll sell every one of my ...
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