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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... manner , to the admiration of all who were present , " How much more ( says he ) would you have wondered , if you had heard him speak it himself ! " We might add to these authorities the judgment of Quintilian ; who says , that " It is ...
... manner of the delivery , by which the audience is moved . " " The truth of this sentiment of the ancients , concern ing the power and efficacy of pronunciation , might be proved from many instances ; but one or two may here suffice ...
... counterfeit ; yet such is the power of action , that we are oftentimes affected by it in the same manner as if it were all reality . Anger 2 Anger and resentment at the appearance of cruelty , 10 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
... manner with his adversary . " Would you talk thus ( says he ) if you were serious ? Would you , who are wont to display your eloquence so warmly in the danger of others , act so coldly in your own ? Where is that concern , that ardour ...
... manner , with all those advantages , joined to a good natural genius , could not fail of making very complete orators . Though even after they came to appear in public , they did not lay aside the custom of declaiming . The influence of ...
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