Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural AddressTexas A&M University Press, 2003 - Počet stran: 155 Widely celebrated in its own time, Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address has been hailed as the Sermon on the Mount of good government. Curiously, this masterpiece--the full text of which is reproduced in this volume--has never received sustained analysis. Here, Browne describes its origins, composition, meaning, and delivery, offering a model of analysis for rhetorical scholars. |
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... common efforts for the common good. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal ...
... common efforts for the common good. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal ...
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... common store of knowledge and beliefs that in turn become instruments of persuasion.6 There are other ways of getting at Jefferson's particular genius, but this stress on rhetoric as the art of effective expression gives us the means to ...
... common store of knowledge and beliefs that in turn become instruments of persuasion.6 There are other ways of getting at Jefferson's particular genius, but this stress on rhetoric as the art of effective expression gives us the means to ...
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... common conviction, pursuing the same ends, animated not by party ambition but by principles definitively republican, definitively American. Certainly to his supporters, the sentiment offered belated respite from the contagion of ...
... common conviction, pursuing the same ends, animated not by party ambition but by principles definitively republican, definitively American. Certainly to his supporters, the sentiment offered belated respite from the contagion of ...
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... common ground shared by the two parties but to the common belief, shared by all American citizens, that a republican form of government and a federal bond among the states was most preferable. Since one would have been hard pressed to ...
... common ground shared by the two parties but to the common belief, shared by all American citizens, that a republican form of government and a federal bond among the states was most preferable. Since one would have been hard pressed to ...
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... it was unified on a common conception of the public good. On this basis, as Gordon Wood observes, “politics was conceived to be not the reconciling but the transcending of the different interests of the society” as ...
... it was unified on a common conception of the public good. On this basis, as Gordon Wood observes, “politics was conceived to be not the reconciling but the transcending of the different interests of the society” as ...
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Chapter 2 The Strongest Government on Earth | 50 |
Chapter 3 The Circle of Our Felicities | 88 |
Epilogue | 131 |
Notes | 135 |
Bibliography | 144 |
Index | 153 |
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