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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... liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political ...
... liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political ...
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... liberty, and safety. I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this the greatest of all, I have learnt to expect that it will rarely ...
... liberty, and safety. I repair, then, fellow-citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this the greatest of all, I have learnt to expect that it will rarely ...
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... liberty, I wish not to skirt the question as to how Jefferson could say the things he said even as he held several hundred human beings in bondage. In the old days, one might expect at this point the usual qualifiers: yes, but he ...
... liberty, I wish not to skirt the question as to how Jefferson could say the things he said even as he held several hundred human beings in bondage. In the old days, one might expect at this point the usual qualifiers: yes, but he ...
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... Liberty prevails.”1 But appearances could be deceiving, and all the sanguinity of. “Brethren. of. the. Same. Principle”. The First Inaugural Address. [ ] ' Chapter 1 “Brethren of ...
... Liberty prevails.”1 But appearances could be deceiving, and all the sanguinity of. “Brethren. of. the. Same. Principle”. The First Inaugural Address. [ ] ' Chapter 1 “Brethren of ...
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... liberty riding in the balance.” By , matters had come to the point where political difference had devolved into a particularly venomous civil discord. “Men who have been intimate all their lives,” lamented Thomas Jefferson ...
... liberty riding in the balance.” By , matters had come to the point where political difference had devolved into a particularly venomous civil discord. “Men who have been intimate all their lives,” lamented Thomas Jefferson ...
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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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