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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... behold my unhappy mother all in tears and despair ? " " Though Gracchus had a very ill design in that speech , and his view was to excite the populace against their governors , yet ( as Cicero tells us ) when he came to this passage ...
... behold . It is also clothed with verdure ; dis- tinguished by trees ; and adorned with a variety of beautiful decorations . Whereas , to a spectator placed on one of the planets , it wears a uniform aspect ; looks all luminous , and no ...
... mortal pangs And fleshly pris'n set free , and bore it thence Upon their wings rejoicing . Then behold A prodigy A prodigy , that to the world announc'd A new 64 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . Christ's Crucifixion CUMBERLAND.
... 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 shadowy forms now floating in your sight , These are the harbingers of ancient days ...
... behold all his treasons detected , exposed , crushed , and punished . With these omens , Catiline , of all prosperity to the republic , but of destruction to thyself , and all those who have joined themselves with thee in all kinds of ...
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