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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... 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 rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would ...
... 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 rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would ...
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... Mind, this preoccupation with the meaning, so to speak, of the third president is scarcely new; in fact it dates to his own life time and has seldom if ever abated. In treating at such length one of Jefferson's most important statements ...
... Mind, this preoccupation with the meaning, so to speak, of the third president is scarcely new; in fact it dates to his own life time and has seldom if ever abated. In treating at such length one of Jefferson's most important statements ...
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... minds with happily concentrated propositions.” At the same time, we cannot miss in his thought a structure of ideas and ideals that ordered his public statements in ways not arbitrary, not just the clutching of truisms in the face of ...
... minds with happily concentrated propositions.” At the same time, we cannot miss in his thought a structure of ideas and ideals that ordered his public statements in ways not arbitrary, not just the clutching of truisms in the face of ...
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... mind in those more auspicious days when the “Spirit of ' ” was known to reign. In the starkest of contrasts to Adams's America of , the s were marked by a relentless struggle between highly articulate, deeply ...
... mind in those more auspicious days when the “Spirit of ' ” was known to reign. In the starkest of contrasts to Adams's America of , the s were marked by a relentless struggle between highly articulate, deeply ...
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... mind the ocean obedient to its laws even in the tempest. The happy world of men lies before him, while he defines the true principles of civil government, and when he commands our confidence in them, he makes us perceive that this ...
... mind the ocean obedient to its laws even in the tempest. The happy world of men lies before him, while he defines the true principles of civil government, and when he commands our confidence in them, he makes us perceive that this ...
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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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