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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... whole art of pronunciation , both as to their voice and gestures . These latter were generally taken from the theatre , being some eminent experienced actors . But though they made use of actors to instruct their youth in form- ing ...
... whole art of eloquence , so particularly to acquire a just and accurate pronunciation by those exercises , in which for that end they were constantly employed . Nor , after all this pains and industry , did they yet think them- selves ...
... whole ; which cannot be done , when the voice is suddenly varied with too great a distinction . And therefore it should move from one key to another , so as rather to glide like a gentle stream , than pour down like a rapid torrent , as ...
... whole body , or some particular part of it . The speaker should not long continue standing in the same position , like a statue , but be constantly changing , though the motion be very moderate . There ought to be no appearance of ...
... whole . In a calm and sedate discourse , all the features retain their natural state and situation . In sorrow the forehead and eyebrows lour , and the cheeks hang down . But in expressions of joy and cheerfulness , the forehead and ...
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