Lincoln's Speeches ReconsideredJHU Press, 03.03.2020 - 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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... passion to hold that experience in the imagination was inadequate. The principles of the revolution had to be revivified and adapted under arduous circumstances that required new forms of speech. Lincoln's position was doubly ...
... passions of the mind . The passions most worth cultivating were those capable of being " excited by any great subject of commanding 4 . LINCOLN'S SPEECHES RECONSIDERED •
... passions are causes of and responses to the mind's notions of significance . The mind is itself influenced by intellectual passions that arise from its contact with subjects of " commanding interest . " Mind and passion may be ...
... passions , or to settled opinion , was more readily accepted as a legitimate and even necessary activity of civilized life . Emerson's power of mixing ordinary concerns with flights of the philosophical imagination was unusual . But ...
... passion , as others have done so before them . The question then , is , can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others ? Most certainly it cannot . ( 1.113-114 ) On January 27 ...
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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 |