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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... poor , much read , not read at all ? Them and their works in the same class you'll find ; They are the mere waste - paper of mankind . Observe F Observe the maiden , innocently sweet , She's fair THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 47.
... poor , and private men are rich . We ad- mire nothing but riches ; we give ourselves up to sloth and effeminacy ; we make no distinction between the good and the bad ; whilst ambition engrosses all the re- wards of virtue . Do you ...
... poor vain fellow was purchasing fortune at the expense of his happiness . Es . ' Tis even so , friend ; fortune and felicity are as often at variance as man and wife . Mr. Tat . I found it so , Sir . This high life ( as I thought it ) ...
... Poor Richard , " are in the hands both of the learned and the ignorant ; they contain the most sublime morality , reduced to popular language and common comprehension ; and form the catechism of happiness for all mankind . Franklin was ...
... poor to endure a rent , double to what they now pay ; and I am certain it will be impossible for them all to remove , on account of the scarcity of houses to be ob- tained . Don P. That is not my look out . It is enough for me to attend ...
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