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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... spirit among the Youth of America , is the design of this Book . 1 Of the many pieces which this volume contains , three only are to be found in any publication of the kind . A large proportion is entirely original . Το those , who have ...
... spirit of the sentiments which he delivers . There is as great a difference between one who lays his emphasis properly , and one who pays no regard to it , or places it wrong , as there is between one who plays on an instrument with a ...
... spirit : and to suffer it to lean on either shoul- der , argues both sloth and indolence . Wherefore , in calm and sedate discourse , it ought to keep its natural state , and upright posture . However , it should not be long without ...
... spirits are ruffled , the organs are moved unequally . Joy raises and dilates the voice , as sor- row sinks and contracts it . Cicero takes notice of a passage in an oration of Gracchus , wherein he bewails the death of his brother ...
... spirits , invite them to partake of it without restraint . In vain we warn them of latent dangers . Religion is accused of insufferable severity , in prohibiting enjoy- ment and the old , when they offer their admonitions , are ...
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