Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 2020 M03 3 - 386 páginas 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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... Principle 6 • The Kansas-Nebraska Speech Popular Sovereignty and Self-Government 7 • The “House Divided” Speech The Logic of Hopeful Resolve 8• Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions Self-Government and Arts of Literacy 9 • The Milwaukee ...
... Principle 6. The Kansas - Nebraska Speech Popular Sovereignty and Self - Government 7. The " House Divided " Speech The Logic of Hopeful Resolve 8. Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions Self - Government and Arts of Literacy 9. The ...
... principles of self - government , which were informed by a particular understanding of human 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 ...
... principle or crucial observation could be brought to light . 19 This pattern of concession and resolute defense ... principles that were central to his view . It tempered his discourse so that it became a rhetorical version of flexible ...
... principles and significance . They look into the way each performance seems to be made , what it is made of , and the purposes to which it is dedicated , in light of circumstances influencing those purposes , including Lincoln's care ...
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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 |