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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... soul ; but we believe it can scarcely be discernible to any , in reading it , how it should have had so surprising an effect ; which must therefore have been chiefly ow ing to the wonderful address of the speaker . The more natural the ...
... soul are expressed in the eyes , by so many different actions ; which cannot possibly be represented by any gestures of the body , if the eyes are kept in a fixed posture . " Common experience does in a great measure confirm the truth ...
... soul , and an innocence of manners , that kept them perfectly free in their councils ; unre- strained either by the remembrance of past crimes , or by craving appetites to satisfy . For these virtues , we have luxury and avarice ; or ...
... soul alone , Have made thy legions shake , thy navy an , And thy proud empire totter to the throne . O , what thou art , mayst thou forever be , And death the lot of any chief but thee ! We've had our Decius too ; and Howe could say ...
... soul vouchsaf'd , Ere thus he cry'd , Father ! into thy hands My spirit I commend . Then bow'd his head And died . Now Gabriel and his heavenly choir Of minist❜ring angels hov'ring o'er the cross Receiv'd his spirit , at length from ...
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