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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... heads , tearing their garments , and covering themselves with sackcloth under any deep distress and sorrow of mind . And hence , no doubt , arose those surprising effects of eloquence , which we never experience now . And what is said ...
... of the body , the head is the most considerable . To lift it up too high has the air of arro- gance and pride ; to stretch it out too far , or throw it back back , looks clownish and unmannerly ; to hang it 20 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
... head to the left . But it is the countenance , that chiefly represents both the passions and dispositions of the mind . By this we express love , hatred , joy , sorrow , modesty , and con- fidence by this we supplicate , threaten ...
... head , the shoulders ought not to be elevated ; for this is not only in itself indecent ; but it likewise contracts the neck , and hinders the proper motion of the head . Nor , on the other hand , should they be drawn down and depressed ...
... is the most contemptible idea that ever entered into the head of a man . It does not deserve a serious refutation . The OF TH UNIVERSITY The Commons of America , represented in their sev- eral THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 59.
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