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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... person of Crassus , has largely and elegantly discoursed upon all the other parts of oratory , coming at last to speak of this , he says , All the former have their effect as they are pronoun- ced . It is the action alone which governs ...
... person he pleads for to be an ill man , and my enemy . " 9 But , however , in the course of his oration , Cicero so wrought upon his passions , that by the frequent altera- tion in his countenance , the emotions of his mind were very ...
... person of this character will make the cause he espouses his own ; and the more sensibly he is touched with it himself , the more natural will be his action ; and , of course , the more easily will he affect others . Cicero says , " It ...
... persons , whose proper business it was to teach them how to regulate and manage their voice ; and others , who instructed them in the whole art of pronunciation , both as to their voice and gestures . These latter were generally taken ...
... persons in the first rudiments , yet they were afterwards sent to schools , de- signed on purpose to teach them a decent and graceful management of their bodies . Being thus far prepared , they were afterwards sent to the schools of the ...
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