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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... Joch . My son ! my son ! I cannot speak the rest . Ye who have sons can only know my fondness ! Ye who have lost them , or who fear to lose , Can only know my pangs ! None else can guess them . A mother's sorrows cannot be conceiv'd ...
... Joch . No : if a mother's tears , a mother's prayers , A mother's fond precautions can prevail , He shall not die . I have a thought , my Miriam ! And sure the God of mercies , who inspir'd , Will bless the secret purpose of my soul ...
... Joch . ' Tis danger to expose , and death to keep him . Mir . Yet , reflect ! Should the fierce crocodile , The native and the tyrant of the Nile , Seize the defenceless infant ! Joch . O , forbear ! Spare my fond heart . Yet not the ...
... Joch . Know , this ark is charm'd With spells , which impious Egypt never knew . With invocations to the living God , I twisted every slender reed together , And with a prayer did ev'ry osier weave . Mir . I go , Joch . Yet ere thou go ...
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