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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... wish that your consciences should whisper to you words of consolation , rather than speak to you in the terrible language of remorse , weigh well the verdict you are to pronounce . As for me , I am careless and indifferent to my fate ...
... wishes , has declared , that it is less to the talents of an orator , than to the patriotism of a citizen , the zeal of a preacher of liberty , and the sensibility of a friend of men , that it hath confided this solemn function . In ...
... wish'd The deed undone , and sighing smote their breasts . Straight from God's presence went that angel forth , Whose trumpet shall call up the sleeping dead At the last day , and bade the saints arise And come on earth to hail this ...
... wish to learn such an art . Fr. Did you never read Lavater on Physiognomy ? Hen . No. What do you mean by such a hard word ? Fr. Physiognomy means a knowledge of men's hearts , thoughts , and characters , by their looks . For instance ...
... wishes are irre- sistibly excited , whensoever , in any country , I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom . But above all , the events of the French revolution have pro duced the deepest solicitude , as well as the ...
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