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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... proper business it was to teach them how to regulate and manage their voice ; and others , who instructed them in the whole art of pronunciation , both as to their voice and gestures . These latter were generally taken from the theatre ...
... proper judges of such performances , and declaim before them in private . The business of these persons was to make observa- tions both on their language and pronunciation . And they were allowed the greatest freedom to take notice of ...
... proper attention to accent , emphasis , and ca- dence . Every word in our language , of more than one syllable , has , at least , one accented syllable . This sylla- ble ought to be rightly known , and the word should be pronounced by ...
... proper pitch , and be no less offensive to the hearers . The medium between these two is a moderate and even voice . But this is not the same in all ; that which is moderate in one would be high in another . Every person therefore must ...
... proper pause .. This is more easy to be done in reading , from the assistance of the points ; but it is no less to be attended to in speaking , if we would pronounce in a distinct and graceful manner . For every one should speak in the ...
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