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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... feel the mind of my Indian brethren , the Six Nations , and know how they stand ; whether they are on your side , or for your your enemies . If I find they are against you 54 THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR .. Speech of an Indian Chief.
... feels no propensity to worship and adore , is dead to all sense of grandeur and majesty ; has extinguished one of the most natural feelings of the human heart . LINES SPOKEN AT A SCHOOL - EXHIBITION , BY A LIT- TLE BOY SEVEN YEARS OLD ...
... feel the dread- ful shock . All things tremble before the furious blast . The forest , vexed and torn , groans under the scourge . G 2 He Her sturdy sons are strained to the very root , THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR : 77 The Wonders of Nature ...
... [ Feels for his pocket - book in both pockets , looks wildly and concerned . ] Geor . [ Tauntingly . ] Aye , " in his heart is no guile , in his lips no deceit , and in his hands no fraud ! Now we see a strong example of the power of ...
... feel what oppression is . Wife . I entreat you to receive the money , and be content . room . Don P. A woman , who can't be silent in her hus- band's presence , especially when he is negociating im- portant business , may take a modest ...
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