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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... less careful in endeavouring to gain the habit of a becoming and decent gesture ; for which purpose he used to pronounce his discourses alone before a large glass . And because he had an ill custom of drawing up his shoulders when he ...
... less powerful , and more agreeable to our rational faculties . As persons are dif- ferently affected when they speak , so they naturally B alter alter the tone of their voice , though they do THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR . 13.
... less offensive to the hearers . The medium between these two is a moderate and even voice . But this is not the same in all ; that which is moderate in one would be high in another . Every person therefore must regulate it by the ...
... less pleasing than a discourse pronounced throughout in one continued tone of the voice , with- out any alteration . The equality , therefore , we are here speaking of , admits a variety of inflections and changes within the same pitch ...
... less to be attended to in speaking , if we would pronounce in a distinct and graceful manner . For every one should speak in the same manner as he ought to read , if he could ar- rive at that exactness . Now the common rule given in ...
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