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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... stars when the sun appears , they are lost in the superior blaze of the in- comparable Demosthenes . His story is well known i and his example affords the greatest encouragement to students in eloquence ; as it proves , that , by art ...
... star ; as in one part of her orbit , she rides foremost in the procession of night ; in the other , ush- ers in , and anticipates the dawn , is a planetary world ; which , with the five others , that so wonderfully vary their mystic ...
... star , though in appearance no bigger than the dia- mond that glitters on a lady's ring , is really a mighty globe ... stars appear like so many diminutive , and scarcely distinguishable points , is owing to their im- mense mense and ...
... star , and take your stand on one of those lofty pin- nacles of heaven , you would there see other skies ex- panded ; another sun , distributing his inexhaustible beams by day ; other stars which gild the horrors of the alternate night ...
... stars sang together ; and all the sons of God shouted for joy . " per- But , on this great work of creation , let us not mere- ly gaze with astonishment . Let us consider how it should affect our conduct , by presenting the divine ...
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