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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... voice ; and others , who instructed them in the whole art of pronunciation , both as to their voice and gestures . These latter were generally taken from the theatre , being some eminent experienced actors . But though they made use of ...
... voice or actions . This gave them an opportunity to correct any such defects at first , before they became habitual . What effects might not justly be expected from such an institution ? Persons trained up in this manner , with all ...
... voice , though they do not attend to it . It rises , sinks , and has various inflections given it , according to the present state and disposition of the mind . When the mind is calm and sedate , the voice is moderate and even ; when ...
... voice ; and commonly falls up- on the last syllable in a sentence . It is varied , how- ever , according to the sense . When a question is asked , it seldom falls upon the last word ; and many sentences require no cadence at all . Every ...
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