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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... glory , and the happiness of man . These are the pillars which support the fair fabric of eloquence ; the foundation , upon which is erected the most magnificent edifice , that genius could design , or art construct . To cultivate elo ...
... glory of eloquence . To promote the innocent and refined pleasures of the fancy and intellect ; to strip the monster vice of all his borrowed charms , and expose to view his native defor- mity ; to display the resistless attractions of ...
... glory is soon to fade ; for Cicero appears ; Cicero , another name for eloquence itself . It is needless to enlarge on his character as an orator . Suffice it to say , that if we ransack the histories of the world to find a rival for ...
... glory and her felicity increase with each revolving year , till the last trump shall announce the catastrophe of nature , and time shall immerge in the ocean of eternity . EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S FIRST SPEECH IN CONGRESS ...
... glory ; no less spa- cious ; no less luminous than the radiant source of our day . So that every star is not barely a world , but the centre of a magnificent system ; has a retinue of worlds , irradiated by its beams , and revolving ...
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