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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... laws of Pluto's empire . You must go in the boat and be quiet . Sav . Don't tell me of laws : I am a savage : I value no laws . Talk of laws to the Englishman : there are laws in his country ; and yet you see he did not regard them ...
... laws which are to reform education , and with ît the national manners , are already prepared ; they will advance , they will fortify the cause of liberty by means of their happy influence , and become the second saviours of their ...
... laws ; and the human race has revered thee as the universal patriarch who has formed the alliance of nature with society . Thy remembrance belongs to all ages ; thy memory to all nations ; thy glory to eternity ! EPILOGUE EPILOGUE TO ...
... law , if he can get any body to employ him ; or he may be a Doctor or an Instructor ; but I tell you the country is crowded with learned men begging business . How . Then you intend to prepare yourself for the ignorant herd , so that ...
... laws . Be- Soon we are enabled to be useful . Good children , we strew flowers over the age of our parents , and their trembling voice blesses us in their last moments . come parents in our turn , we prepare , in the education of our ...
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