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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... Demosthenes was of the same opinion ; who , when he was asked what was the principal thing in oratory , replied , Action ; and being asked again a second and a third time , what was next considerable , he still made the same answer ...
... Demosthenes in the cause of Ctesiphon , retired to Rhodes . And being desired by the inhab- itants , he recited to them his own oration upon that occasion ; the next day they requested of him to let them hear that of Demosthenes ; which ...
... Demosthenes . His story is well known i and his example affords the greatest encouragement to students in eloquence ; as it proves , that , by art , almost in defiance of nature , a man may attain such excellence in oratory , as shall ...
... Demosthenes , Cicero alone can be found capable of supporting a claim to that distin- guished honor . And when did Greece or Rome present a fairer field for eloquence than that which now invites the culture of the enlightened citizens ...
... Demosthenes or Cicero , Don't view me with a critic's eye , But pass my imperfections by . Large Large streams from little fountains flow ; Tall oaks from THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 57 Lines spoken by a little Boy EVERETT.
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