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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... dread , and menacing destruction . The atmosphere is hurled into the most tumultuous confusion . The aerial torrent bursts its way over moun tains , seas , and continents . All things feel the dread- ful shock . All things tremble ...
... dread the hand , on which they have been bound . I come to execute the orders of your lord and master ; not to be frightened with your threats . Amandar's injuries have reached the ears of the Bashaw ; and I am sent- Oran . Tale ...
... dreads the opposition of the greatest abilities . If there be a single word in the amendment to justify the interpretation , which the noble lord has been pleased to give it , I am ready to renounce the whole . Let it be read , my lords ...
... night . Hark , what dread sounds descending from the pole , Wave following wave , in swelling thunders roll ! P Ho How the tombs cleave ! What awful forms arise ! THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 169 On the general Judgment Day DWIGHT.
... dread gloom retire . ON THE WORKS OF CREATION AND PRovidence . WHEN I contemplate those ample and magnifi cent structures , erected over all the ethereal plains when I look upon them as so many reposito- ries of light , or fruitful ...
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