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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... resolve is strong : " [ H ] ow easily it all is done , once it is resolved to be done " ( 1.272 ) . But it is not at all clear how the drinker makes his resolu- tion in the first place . When we demand to know Lincoln's understanding of ...
... resolved to bring it about ; the idea of his new life persisted in his nearly subhuman existence . But it is not obvious how that sense might have molded his resolve to be- come sober . Although Lincoln's brief and simple explanation ...
... resolve to be honest ... resolve to be honest . " Choice is not enough . The greater task is summoning one's resolve , in the face of the attraction of consenting to one's own undoing . Recognition of that human weakness means that it ...
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Rhetorical Contexts | 1 |
On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions | 29 |
The Temperance Address | 58 |
Urheberrecht | |
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