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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... Action , as the principal part of an orator's province ; from whence he is chiefly to expect success in the art of persuasion . When Cicero , in the person of Crassus , has largely and elegantly discoursed upon all the other parts of ...
... action , under all these disadvantages , by his inde- fatigable diligence and application , is evident from the confession of his great adversary and rival in oratory , Eschines ; who , when he could not bear the disgrace of being ...
... action . But his orations after his death , as Quintilian tells us , did not appear answerable to his character ; from whence he justly concludes , there must have been something pleasing when he spoke , by which he gained his character ...
... action ; and , of course , the more easily will he affect others . Cicero says , " It is certain that truth ( by which he means nature ) in every thing excels imita- tion ; but if that were sufficient of itself in action , we should ...
... action of the eastern nations , was in a good measure customary among the Greeks and Romans ; if not entirely of the same kind , yet perhaps as vehement and expressive . They did not think language of itself sufficient to ex- press the ...
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