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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... tion in his countenance , the emotions of his mind were very conspicuous . And when he came to touch upon the battle of Pharsalia , which had given Cesar the em- pire of the world , he represented it in such a moving and lively manner ...
... tion , he pardoned Ligarius . Now that oration is still extant , and appears exceedingly well calculated to touch the soft and tender passions and springs of the soul ; but we believe it can scarcely be discernible to any , in reading ...
... tion at all the proper pauses . It is an extreme much less inconvenient for such a person rather to speak too slow , than too fast . But this defect of a weak voice is sometimes capable of being helped by the use of pro- per methods ...
... tion of the arms any way , is by all means to be avoid- ed . Their action should generally be very moderate , and follow that of the hands ; unless in very pathetic expressions , where it may be proper to give them a more lively spring ...
... tion ; as where the orator describes some action , or personates another speaking . But here great care is to be taken not to overact his part by running into any ludicrous or theatrical mimicry . It is sufficient for him to represent ...
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