Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and WritingsBasler has gone through the body of Lincoln utterance and his selections from it in a very peculiar time, a global war time and that war interwoven with many civil wars, a war in which the American Union of States issued as a colossal and decisive force among world powers. What have we to learn from Lincoln in this time when unprecedented and incalculable forces are to operate on our future, when the mind of man and his will and vision must meet the challenge of what is termed AA1, the Year One of the Atomic Age, when we hear the oft-recurring question, "What would Lincoln do now?" And now comes Mr. Basler to lay before you the best writings and speeches of Lincoln for you to find what of Lincoln is usable for these terrific history-shaping years. As a writer and speaker Lincoln had several styles and used them according to what events and occasions demanded. Plain talk, blunt and utterly lucid statements, these are to be found in plenty throughout his writings and speeches. Then again you may find him employing a prose that is cadenced, sonorous, masterly and having its relation to certain masterpieces of literature that had become part of him. - Preface. |
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... hope that all will yet be well . To His care commending you , as I hope in your prayers you will commend me , I bid you an affectionate farewell . As these balanced rhythms sometimes approach meter in their regularity , Lincoln tends to ...
... hope that all will yet be well . To His care commending you , as I hope in your prayers you will commend me , I bid you an affectionate farewell . As these balanced rhythms sometimes approach meter in their regularity , Lincoln tends to ...
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... hope your melancholly [ sic ] bodings as to her early death , are not well founded . I even hope , that ere this reaches you , she will have returned with improved and still improving health ; and that you will have met her , and ...
... hope your melancholly [ sic ] bodings as to her early death , are not well founded . I even hope , that ere this reaches you , she will have returned with improved and still improving health ; and that you will have met her , and ...
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... hope this letter will not be disagreeable to you ; which , together with the circumstances under which I write , I hope will excuse me from not writing a longer one . Come on just 228 ABRAHAM LINCOLN : Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln, June ...
... hope this letter will not be disagreeable to you ; which , together with the circumstances under which I write , I hope will excuse me from not writing a longer one . Come on just 228 ABRAHAM LINCOLN : Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln, June ...
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LINCOLNS DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER | 1 |
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Copyright | |
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