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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... 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 not of so much mo- ment ment what our ...
... present state and disposition of the mind . When the mind is calm and sedate , the voice is moderate and even ; when the former is dejected with sorrow , the latter is languid ; and when that is inflamed by passion , this is elevated ...
... present ; and then return again to its natural position . It should always accompany the other actions of the body , and turn on the same side with them ; except when aversion to any thing is expressed ; which is done by stretching out ...
... present state ; and its superior claim to the particular attention of Columbia's free born sons , will exercise for a few mo- ments the patience of this learned , polite , and respected assembly . Speech and reason are the ...
... present a fairer field for eloquence than that which now invites the culture of the enlightened citizens of Columbia ? We live in a republic , the orator's natal soil ; we enjoy as much liberty , as is consistent with the nature of man ...
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