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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... eloquence,” a virtuoso performance by“one of the best writers which our country has produced.” The principles Jefferson enshrined that day, reported the Independent Chronicle, were “compressed within such precise limits, as to enforce ...
... eloquence,” a virtuoso performance by“one of the best writers which our country has produced.” The principles Jefferson enshrined that day, reported the Independent Chronicle, were “compressed within such precise limits, as to enforce ...
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... Eloquence is Power, Thomas Gustafson's Representative Words, Michael Warner's The Letters of the Republic, and other works have taught us much about the play of language in shaping the cultural life of the period. My study shares that ...
... Eloquence is Power, Thomas Gustafson's Representative Words, Michael Warner's The Letters of the Republic, and other works have taught us much about the play of language in shaping the cultural life of the period. My study shares that ...
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... eloquent statement ever rendered on behalf of an organized political agenda. Was Jefferson, as his many critics charged, a hypocrite? Deluded? Did he manage somehow to transcend the very political realities that elevated him to the ...
... eloquent statement ever rendered on behalf of an organized political agenda. Was Jefferson, as his many critics charged, a hypocrite? Deluded? Did he manage somehow to transcend the very political realities that elevated him to the ...
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... we need another way of looking at the question, assistance for which we can turn to Jefferson's friend and rival John Adams. “Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and [ ]
... we need another way of looking at the question, assistance for which we can turn to Jefferson's friend and rival John Adams. “Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and [ ]
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... eloquence, then we are re- quired to identify expectations and apply standards appropriate not to a Patrick Henry but to Jefferson and the ideals for which he stood.9 The partisan, the theoretical, and the oratorical are, it is ...
... eloquence, then we are re- quired to identify expectations and apply standards appropriate not to a Patrick Henry but to Jefferson and the ideals for which he stood.9 The partisan, the theoretical, and the oratorical are, it is ...
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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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Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural Address Stephen Howard Browne Omezený náhled - 2003 |
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