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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... from the exercise of arms and the palestra . " And Quintilian says to the same purpose , Every -gesture and motion of the comedians is not to be imi- 66 tated , tated , nor to the same degree . They thought 12 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
... thought the action of the theatre too light and extravagant for the imitation of an orator ; and therefore , though they employed actors to inform young persons in the first rudiments , yet they were afterwards sent to schools , de ...
... he said , O 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 .
... thought ; but at the same time shows a disregard to the audience ; and a too quick and wan- dering motion of the eyes denotes levity and wanton- ness . A gentle and moderate motion of the eyes is , therefore , in common , most suitable ...
... notice of a passage in an oration of Gracchus , wherein he bewails the death of his brother , who was killed by Scipio , which in his time was thought very moving : " Unhap- PY py man ( says he , ) whither shall I 28 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .
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