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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... reason , no pieces are inserted from that book . As no advantage could arise from a methodical ar- rangement , the Author has preferred variety to sys- tem . In his choice of materials , it has been his object to select such as should ...
... reason , that the ancients make it one qualification of an orator , that he be a good man ; because a person of this character will make the cause he espouses his own ; and the more sensibly he is touched with it himself , the more ...
... reason , that a warmth of expression and vehemency of motion should rise in proportion to the importance of the subject , and concern of the speaker , will further appear by looking back a little into the more early and simple ages of ...
... reason for it . " Because other parts of the countenance have but few motions ; whereas all the passions of the soul are expressed in the eyes , by so many different actions ; which cannot possibly be represented by any gestures of the ...
... reason , if it be divided into several parts or branches , they should each be expressed very deliberately and dis- tinctly . But as the design here is only information . there can be little room for gesture . The confirmation admits of ...
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