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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... lines can be broken into blank verse : a pair of eight syllable lines that link the flag with the reunion of brothers in arms , and then three pentameters about the sounds of celebration for a victory of reunion more than conquest . the ...
... line on the map . The eulogy uses Jefferson's words to trump consideration of the details of the 1820 and 1850 agree- ments so that Clay's larger effort can be seen to uphold antislavery ideas— ideas that Lincoln in later speeches would ...
... line , there should never be slavery . As to what was to be done with the remaining part south of the line , nothing was said ; but perhaps the fair implication was , that it should come in with slavery if it should so choose . The ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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