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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... passions are causes of and responses to the mind's notions of signifi- cance . The mind is itself influenced by intellectual passions that arise from its contact with subjects of " commanding interest . ” Mind and passion may be ...
... passions , we see this pattern of rational and passionate synthesis extended to those activities that will preserve ... passion in a well - directed fear of tyranny and admiration for the law and its greatest authors . Observed from one ...
... passions by becoming more itself . Instead of reducing the passions to instruments or depending on demagoguery , the elo- quent orator's mind is in this sense moved by its own high object in a way that inspires passion in others . 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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