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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... soon as ever he makes his appearance . He will first settle himself , compose his countenance , and take a respectful view of his audience . This prepares them for silence and attention . Persons commonly form some opinion of a speaker ...
... soon made their appearance , who did honor to language , to Greece , to humanity . But though the names of many have been trans- mitted to us , whose genius and eloquence demand our veneration and applause ; yet , like stars when the ...
... soon to fade ; for Cicero appears ; Cicero , another name for eloquence itself . It is needless to enlarge on his character as an orator . Suffice it to say , that if we ransack the histories of the world to find a rival for Demosthenes ...
... soon as he shall find that his son is not with us . Our ene- mies will insult over us under these misfortunes , and treat us as the most infamous of parricides . I must appear to the world , and to myself , as the perpetrator of that ...
... soon ; Sav . Mercury , I won't go in the boat with that fellow . He has murdered his countryman ; he has murdered his friend : I say positively , I won't go in the boat with that fellow . I will swim over thn river : I can swim like a ...
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