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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... as he ought to read , if he could ar- rive at that exactness . Now the common rule given in pausing is , that we stop our voice at a comma till we B2 can 1 can tell one , at a semicolon two , THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 17.
... tell one , at a semicolon two , at a colon three , and at a full period four . And as these points are either accommodated to the several parts of the same sen- tence , as the first three ; or different sentences , as the last ; this ...
... with a suitable address and motions of the body to en- gage the attention of the hearers . For there is a certain C grace 138A6 OF TH UNIVERS OF GAL grace in telling a story , by which those who THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 25.
... telling a story , by which those who are masters of it seldom fail to recommend themselves in conver- sation . The proposition , or subject of the discourse should be delivered with a very clear and audible voice . For if this be not ...
... tell me of laws : I am a savage : I value no laws . Talk of laws to the Englishman : there are laws in his country ; and yet you see he did not regard them . For they could never allow him to kill his fellow - subject , in time of peace ...
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