Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 3 бер. 2020 р. - 386 стор. 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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... nature [ and ] ... strict philosophical accuracy , " and yet of sufficient magnitude to " open the floodgates of the sensibility within us , and thus to bring into exercise our active powers for the promoting of good or the preventing ...
... nature and ideas such as those set out by the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence . Yet the ease with which one could lose one's grip on the principles of selfgovernment , as Lincoln noted in his Lyceum Address , was not ...
... nature of most public oratory may explain why only a few oratorical texts have been preserved in the public imagination , to be pored over in repeated readings , while so many others have slipped into the quotidian flow of yesterday's ...
... nature rather than the particular privileges of individuals , America's situation seemed to ensure that its speakers would address posterity , providing later ages with speeches worth reading and rereading . This was due not only to ...
... nature . Nothing — not even dissimilarity of language — tends more to estrange man from man . Let us , then , bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals . Let us conquer space . It is thus the most distant ...
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The Temperance Address | 58 |
The Speech on the War with Mexico | 82 |
The Eulogy for Henry Clay | 113 |
The KansasNebraska Speech | 134 |
The House Divided Speech | 164 |
The Milwaukee Address | 195 |
Thorough Farming and SelfGovernment | 221 |
The Cooper Union Address | 237 |
Presidential Eloquence and Political Religion | 257 |
The Farewell Address | 281 |
The First Inaugural the Gettysburg Address | 297 |
POSTSCRIPT The Letter to Mrs Bixby | 328 |
Index | 363 |