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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... fire By God's own finger touch'd : there might be seen The youthful prophet , Belteshazzar nam'd Of the Chaldees , interpreter of dreams , Knowledge of God bestow'd , in visions skill'd , And fair , and learn'd , and wise : the Baptist ...
... fire baptiz'd : Barren ye were of fruits , which I prescrib'd Meet for repentance , and behold ! the axe Is laid to the unprofitable root Of every sapless tree , hewn down , condemn'd And cast into the fire . Lo ! these are they , These ...
... as you make an idol of your own dear self . Don . P. My property is my best friend , and one which I trust will never forsake me . [ Cry of fire without . Enter Enter SERVANT in haste . Ser . Sir , your THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 93.
... fire to this , and every other building I possess ; that they may all go to destruction together . 2d . Ten . That looks something like giving wings to your riches . Don P. If I had had one thimble full of brains , should have got them ...
... fire Among the accurs'd , that wither'd all their strength , And of their wonted vigour left them drain'd , Exhausted , spiritless , afflicted , fall'n . Yet half his strength he put not forth , but check'd His thunder in mid volley ...
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