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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... thou not . Look not on the wine when it is red , when it giveth its colour in the cup ; for at the last , it biteth like a serpent , and sting- eth like an adder . Remove thy way from the strange woman , and come not near the door of ...
... thou pretend to be asha- med of my company ? Dost thou not know that I have kept the best company in England ? Sav . I know thou art a scoundrel . Not pay thy debts ! kill thy friend who lent thee money for asking thee for it ! Get out ...
... thou standest like a post ! Has Mercury struck thee with his enfeebling rod ? Or art thou asha- med to let us see how awkward thou art ? If he would permit me , I would teach thee to dance in a way that thou hast never yet learned . But ...
... thou fallen ! SPEECH OF AN INDIAN CHIEF , OF THE STOCKBRIDGE TRIBE , TO THE MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESS , IN THE YEAR 1775 . You BROTHERS ! OU remember , when you first came over the great waters , I was great and you were little very small ...
... thou hast sung songs of deliverance . The last looks , which thou didst cast around thee , beheld Ame- rica happy ; France , on the other side of the ocean , free , and a sure indication of the approaching freedom and happiness of the ...
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