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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... mean for defending THS RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE , and for enforcing good Counsels . " STEREOTYPE EDITION . ROLLIN . BOSTON : PRINTED FOR CALEB BINGHAM AND CO . And Sold at their Book - Store , No. 45 Cornhill . 1817 . STRICT OF ...
... mean for defending the rights of the people , and for enforcing good counsels . " Rollin . 74287 In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States , entitled , " An Act for the encouragement of learning , by securing the ...
... means to ren- der his pronunciation more clear and articulate , by the help of some little stones put under his tongue . Nor was he less careful in endeavouring to gain the habit of a becoming and decent gesture ; for which purpose he ...
... means nature ) in every thing excels imita- tion ; but if that were sufficient of itself in action , we should have no occasion for art . " In his opinion therefore ( and who was ever a better judge ? ) art , in this case , as well as ...
... mean , all the grace of speaking is lost , and in a great measure , the advantage of hearing . Young persons are very liable to this , especially at first setting out . And it often arises from diffidence . They are jealous of their ...
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