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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... once the business and the glory of eloquence . To promote the innocent and refined pleasures of the fancy and intellect ; to strip the monster vice of all his borrowed charms , and expose to view his native defor- mity ; to display the ...
... once were young . And yet , my friends , to what do the restraints of religion , and the counsels of age , with respect to pleasure , amount ? They may all be comprised in few words , not to hurt yourselves , and not to hurt others , by ...
... once capti- vated all hearts ; that vivacity which sparkled in every company ; those abilities which were fitted for adorn- ing the highest station , all sacrificed at the shrine of low sensuality ; and one , who was formed for running ...
... might the plan pursue . I , ( can you pardon my presumption ? ) I , No wit , no genius , yet for once will try . Various Various the papers , various wants produce , The wants 46 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . Paper, a Poem FRANKLIN.
... once into being this mighty globe , on which so many millions of creatures now dwell ! No preparatory measures were required . No long circuit of means was employed . " He spake and it was done : He commanded , and it stood fast . " The ...
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