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 - 300 էջ 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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... Conj . [ Speaking loud in the other room . ] Horum quorum spiritorum , veniunto ! Mrs. Cred . Law me ! the very ghosts are come now ! he is talking to them . Think . They will never understand him , unless he Think . 178 THE COLUMBIAN ...
... Conj . Horum charactarius in hoc circulum omnes planetorum atque eorum inhabitantibusque recto repre- sentur ; et atque genii spiritorumque . Betty Bless me ! what a world of learning he has ! I can't understand a word he says . Jack ...
... Conj . [ Writing her name in his book . ] Do you rec- ollect whether the day that Burgoyne was captured was clear or cloudy ? Betty . That was quite before my remembrance , Sir . [ Looking in a glass . ] I am sure nobody could take me ...
... Conj . [ Moving his wand over the circle , and touching particular characters . Aries , Taurus , Gemini , Can- cer ; that is it precisely . You are under a little mis- take , Sir ; it was on the twentieth night of June . Bluster . You ...
... Conj . What trick shall I try now ! I am detected at last . [ Aside . Cred . You must be misinformed , Mr. Longstaff . This man is so far from being a thief , that he is a greater torment to them than their own consciences . Long . Hear ...
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