Abraham Lincoln As An Orator Excerpts From Newspapers And Other Sources Classic Reprint

Author : Lincoln Financial Foundation
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 48 pages
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Release : 2018-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0366560603

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Abraham Lincoln as an Orator: Excerpts from Newspapers and Other Sources (Classic Reprint) by Lincoln Financial Foundation Pdf

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln as an Orator: Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Lord Curzon must reter to the writ ten instead of the spoken word. If that be oratory, Burke was a great icrates although he emptied Parlia ment when he spoke. Fox and Sheri gdan held their audiences enthralled. The 'greatest speech Sheridan ever made, in the impeachment'ot Warren Hastings, was never published as de livered. The shorthand reporters be so, excited that they failed to take notes and Sheridan himself could not reproduce it later. The oldest members declared it. The most elo {quent speech they had ever heard. But the published speeches of Fox and Sheridan _do not compare with -those of Burke. According to the latecase he took what was good. And-made it his own. No outside education could match such a deep, thorough culture of thought and Speech. Lincoln mustered language through and through: and it was out of his own experience. After twenty years' success at the bar. That he gave to a young man who wanted to become a lawyer. This advice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Samuel J. Skevington
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 48 pages
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Release : 2018-01-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0483024899

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Abraham Lincoln by Samuel J. Skevington Pdf

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Oration The length of the examination and the character of the subject matter on which the candidate will be examined is left to the judg ment of the committee. In the event of the failure of the candidate, the chairman may reschedule the examination a second time. In the event of a second failure, the student will be required to withdraw from the University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1332925413

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Speeches by Abraham Lincoln (Classic Reprint) by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

Excerpt from Speeches by Abraham Lincoln But so far Congress only had acted; and an indorsement by the people, real or apparent, was indispensable, to save the point already gained and give chance for more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 192 pages
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Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1391931262

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The President's Words by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

Excerpt from The President's Words: A Selection of Passages From the Speeches, Addresses, and Letters of Abraham Lincoln On the day of the funeral, m an address at Con cord, Mr R W Emerson thus charaétenzed these brlef utterances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Rosemarie Ostler
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781466846289

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Founding Grammars by Rosemarie Ostler Pdf

Who decided not to split infinitives? With whom should we take issue if in fact, we wish to boldly write what no grammarian hath writ before? In Founding Grammars, Rosemarie Ostler delves into the roots of our grammar obsession to answer these questions and many more. Standard grammar and accurate spelling are widely considered hallmarks of a good education, but their exact definitions are much more contentious - capable of inciting a full-blown grammar war at the splice of a comma, battles readily visible in the media and online in the comments of blogs and chat rooms. With an accessible and enthusiastic journalistic approach, Ostler considers these grammatical shibboleths, tracing current debates back to America's earliest days, an era when most families owned only two books - the Bible and a grammar primer. Along the way, she investigates colorful historical characters on both sides of the grammar debate in her efforts to unmask the origins of contemporary speech. Linguistic founding fathers like Noah Webster, Tory expatriate Lindley Murray, and post-Civil War literary critic Richard Grant White,all play a featured role in creating the rules we've come to use, and occasionally discard, throughout the years. Founding Grammars is for curious readers who want to know where grammar rules have come from, where they've been, and where they might go next.

Author : Grant M. Overton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066429287

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Cargoes for Crusoes by Grant M. Overton Pdf

"Cargoes for Crusoes" by Grant M. Overton contains a list of many books in its over 400 pages. Each book in this collection aims to provoke the reader into self-reflection or a sense of adventure. This text adds commentary and analysis of these important works to help readers understand them, and even to help would-be readers make a final decision of what to pick up next.

Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253021168

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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two by Philip A. Greasley Pdf

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

Author : Wendy Wolff
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 816 pages
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Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160632579

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Senate, 1789-1989, V. 3: Classic Speeches, 1830-1993 by Wendy Wolff Pdf

Contains the texts of 46 speeches by: Robert Y. Hayne, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Thomas Corwin, Thomas Hart Benton, William H. Seward, Jeremiah Clemens, William P. Fessenden, Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, Andrew Johnson, Henry Cabot Lodge, William E. Borah, Rebecca L. Fenton, Huey P. Long, Joseph R. McCarthy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Richard M. Nixon, Frank Church, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Michael J. Mansfield, Everett M. Dirksen, Gale W. McGee, Robert C. Byrd, and other Senators.

Author : Cathleen Kaveny
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674969384

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Prophecy without Contempt by Cathleen Kaveny Pdf

The culture wars have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny focuses on a powerful stream of religious discourse in American political speech: the Biblical rhetoric of prophetic indictment. It can be strong medicine against threats to the body politic, she shows, but used injudiciously it does more harm than good.

Author : Martin P. Johnson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700621125

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Writing the Gettysburg Address by Martin P. Johnson Pdf

Four score and seven years ago . . . . Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation’s history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising story of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address has never been fully told. Until now. Martin Johnson's remarkable work of historical and literary detection illuminates a speech, a man, and a moment in history that we thought we knew. Johnson guides readers on Lincoln’s emotional and intellectual journey to the speaker’s platform, revealing that Lincoln himself experienced writing the Gettysburg Address as an eventful process that was filled with the possibility of failure, but which he knew resulted finally in success beyond expectation. We listen as Lincoln talks with the cemetery designer about the ideals and aspirations behind the unprecedented cemetery project, look over Lincoln's shoulder as he rethinks and rewrites his speech on the very morning of the ceremony, and share his anxiety that he might not live up to the occasion. And then, at last, we stand with Lincoln at Gettysburg, when he created the words and image of an enduring and authentic legend. Writing the Gettysburg Address resolves the puzzles and problems that have shrouded the composition of Lincoln's most admired speech in mystery for fifteen decades. Johnson shows when Lincoln first started his speech, reveals the state of the document Lincoln brought to Gettysburg, traces the origin of the false story that Lincoln wrote his speech on the train, identifies the manuscript Lincoln held while speaking, and presents a new method for deciding what Lincoln’s audience actually heard him say. Ultimately, Johnson shows that the Gettysburg Address was a speech that grew and changed with each step of Lincoln's eventful journey to the podium. His two-minute speech made the battlefield and the cemetery into landmarks of the American imagination, but it was Lincoln’s own journey to Gettysburg that made the Gettysburg Address.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141956633

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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439126455

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Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills Pdf

The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172118203238

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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101603703

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Lincoln Speeches by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

The defining rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln – politician, president, and emancipator Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together the great texts of American civic life to create a timely and informative mini-library of perennially vital issues. Whether readers are encountering these classic writings for the first time, or brushing up in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, these slim volumes will serve as a powerful and illuminating resource for scholars, students, and civic-minded citizens. As president, Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that have all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. His words are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the writer's art. Renowned Lincoln and Civil War scholar Allen C. Guelzo brings together this volume of Lincoln Speeches that span the classic and obscure, the lyrical and historical, the inspirational and intellectual. The book contains everything from classic speeches that any citizen would recognize—the first debate with Stephen Douglas, the "House Divided" Speech, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural Address—to the less known ones that professed Lincoln fans will come to enjoy and intellectuals and critics praise. These orations show the contours of the civic dilemmas Lincoln, and America itself, encountered: the slavery issue, state v. federal power, citizens and their duty, death and destruction, the coming of freedom, the meaning of the Constitution, and what it means to progress.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : International cooperation
ISBN : UFL:35051106176151

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Common Cause by Anonim Pdf