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 pagina's 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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... rich , poor , much read , not read at all ? Them and their works in the same class you'll find ; They are the mere waste - paper of mankind . Observe F Observe the maiden , innocently sweet , She's fair THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 47.
... rich . We ad- mire nothing but riches ; we give ourselves up to sloth and effeminacy ; we make no distinction between the good and the bad ; whilst ambition engrosses all the re- wards of virtue . Do you wonder , then , that danger- ous ...
... rich are bound to maintain them , and are never satisfied with what is done for them . My ten- ants would be glad to live in my houses rent free if they could . This , I am persuaded , they learned of my father ; but I'll soon teach ...
... rich in a Chris- tian country by such a vile trade , the judgments of Heaven would keep him poor as long as he lived . Ah , and if men were made to be slaves and masters , why was not one man born with a whip in his hand and gold spoon ...
... rich or poor , and to give them entire leisure to question or answer me , I lend myself to every one who is desirous of becoming virtuous ; and if amongst those who hear me , there are any who prove either good or bad , nei- ther the ...
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