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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... heart decline to her ways ; for her house is the way to hell . Thou goest after her as a bird has- teneth to the ... hearts ; that vivacity which sparkled in every company ; those abilities which were fitted for adorn- ing the highest ...
... hearts of all shall be laid open to view . If you regard your most important interests ; if you wish that your consciences should whisper to you words of consolation , rather than speak to you in the terrible language of remorse , weigh ...
... heart alone : True genuine royal paper is his breast ; Of all the kinds most precious , purest , best . EXTRACT FROM CATO'S SPEECH BEFORE THE RO- MAN SENATE , AFTER THE CONSPIRacy of CatI- LINE . 1 HAVE often spoken before you , Fathers ...
... heart . LINES SPOKEN AT A SCHOOL - EXHIBITION , BY A LIT- TLE BOY SEVEN YEARS OLD . YOU scarce expect one of my age , To speak in public , on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero , Don't view me with a ...
... heart in four , be- comes a widow , slips from her gallants , and begins the world again . There's a life for you ; what do you think of a fine lady now ? Es . As I expected . You are very young , madam , and , if you are not very ...
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