Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJohns Hopkins University Press, 16.06.2005 - 386 Seiten Originally published in 2005. Throughout the fractious years of the mid-nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln's speeches imparted reason and guidance to a troubled nation. Lincoln's words were never universally praised. But they resonated with fellow legislators and the public, especially when he spoke on such volatile subjects as mob rule, temperance, the Mexican War, slavery and its expansion, and the justice of a war for freedom and union. In this close examination, John Channing Briggs reveals how the process of studying, writing, and delivering speeches helped Lincoln develop the ideas with which he would so profoundly change history. Briggs follows Lincoln's thought process through a careful chronological reading of his oratory, ranging from Lincoln's 1838 speech to the Springfield Lyceum to his second inaugural address. Recalling David Herbert Donald's celebrated revisionist essays (Lincoln Reconsidered, 1947), Briggs's study provides students of Lincoln with new insight into his words, intentions, and image. |
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... effect , and his mental processes were furtive and secret . " Lincoln devoted himself to making good arguments that eschewed mere show ; but he did not display his deeper purposes : " Mr. Lincoln could not talk for effect ; he could not ...
... effect , ... for the good of the whole coun- try " ( 2.126 ) . How then was Lincoln to speak in the high oratory demanded of the situation when the man he was eulogizing was disposed against such displays ? Could he imitate his model ...
... effect these ends . The ends themselves are removed from the particular effects of indi- vidual or even collective human effort . Lincoln links them to the vow as the necessary results of its fulfillment , which depends upon individual ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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