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 من الصفحات 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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... Earth ! looked upward . A staring look has the appearance of giddiness and want of thought and to contract the eyes gives suspicion of craft craft and design . A fixed look may be occasioned 22 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
... earth is by far the most extensive orb that our eyes can any where 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 ...
... earth ; on which so many lofty mountains rise , and such vast oceans roll . A line , ex- tending through the centre of that resplendent orb , would measure more than eight hundred thousand miles . A girdle , formed to surround it ...
... earth now exhibits . But there is nothing in this opinion which gives it any title to be opposed to the authority of revelation . The doctrine of two self - existent , independent principles , God and matter , the one active , the other ...
... earth . " But though there was a period when this globe , with all that we see upon it , did not exist , we have no reason to think , that the wisdom and power of the Almighty were then without exercise or employment , Boundless is the ...
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