Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural AddressTexas A&M University Press, 2003 M05 20 - 176 páginas Widely celebrated in its own time, Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address commands the regard of Americans from across the political spectrum. Delivered as the young nation found itself embroiled in bitter partisan struggles, the speech 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, Stephen Howard Browne describes its origins, composition, meaning, and delivery. His wellcrafted argument and accessible prose offer a model of analysis for rhetorical scholars and students and an added dimension to the history of the early republic and the understanding of American political thought. |
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... Presidents - United States- Inaugural addresses . 6. Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century . 7. Discourse analysis— United States . I. Title . II . Series . E332.77.B76 2003 352.23'86'097309034 - dc21 ...
... Presidents - United States- Inaugural addresses . 6. Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century . 7. Discourse analysis— United States . I. Title . II . Series . E332.77.B76 2003 352.23'86'097309034 - dc21 ...
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... president- elect was received by approximately a thousand supporters , congress- men , and the curious , most of whom had no chance of actually hear- ing the soft - spoken leader of the Republican Party . Greeting him , too , were Aaron ...
... president- elect was received by approximately a thousand supporters , congress- men , and the curious , most of whom had no chance of actually hear- ing the soft - spoken leader of the Republican Party . Greeting him , too , were Aaron ...
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... 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 on the grounds and pros- pects of American liberty , I wish not to ...
... 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 on the grounds and pros- pects of American liberty , I wish not to ...
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... president before or since . But perhaps 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 ...
... president before or since . But perhaps 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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Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural Address Stephen H. Browne Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
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Página xiv - 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 intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty...
Página xv - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practised in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man...
Página xvi - Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...