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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... whole of it , he would refund the whole , so that Bell should be the better able to pay his other debts . You are not losing on the Fry debt , because that is , or will be paid ; but your loss will be on the W. P. S. debt , -a debt that ...
... whole of it , he would refund the whole , so that Bell should be the better able to pay his other debts . You are not losing on the Fry debt , because that is , or will be paid ; but your loss will be on the W. P. S. debt , -a debt that ...
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... whole of legislation into his own hands , is what we object to - is what General Taylor objects to - and is what constitutes the broad dis- tinction between you and us . To thus transfer legislation is clearly to take it from those who ...
... whole of legislation into his own hands , is what we object to - is what General Taylor objects to - and is what constitutes the broad dis- tinction between you and us . To thus transfer legislation is clearly to take it from those who ...
Page 307
... whole chapter through . This principle , in the aggregate , gives the slave States in the present Congress , twenty additional representatives - being seven more than the whole majority by which they passed the Nebraska bill . Now all ...
... whole chapter through . This principle , in the aggregate , gives the slave States in the present Congress , twenty additional representatives - being seven more than the whole majority by which they passed the Nebraska bill . Now all ...
Contents
LINCOLNS DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER | 1 |
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | Roy Prentice Basler |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 843 pages |
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