A Textual Analysis of Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural AddressUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1986 - 124 pages |
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... duties of the nation's people . This move is especially striking when contrasted with Lincoln's discussion of similar issues in his Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 : And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions ...
... duties of the nation's people . This move is especially striking when contrasted with Lincoln's discussion of similar issues in his Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 : And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions ...
Page 52
... duties to the entire nation , not just to the North . Lincoln introduces these duties by saying " Let us strive on , " perhaps remembering Christ's call in Luke 13:24 to " Strive to enter in at the strait gate . " The duties are four in ...
... duties to the entire nation , not just to the North . Lincoln introduces these duties by saying " Let us strive on , " perhaps remembering Christ's call in Luke 13:24 to " Strive to enter in at the strait gate . " The duties are four in ...
Page 57
... duties they would face in the future . He symbolically tranforms the civil war from an occasion of terrrible suffering to one of purification , from the ultimate 57 There were practical men who criticized Lincoln's lack of ...
... duties they would face in the future . He symbolically tranforms the civil war from an occasion of terrrible suffering to one of purification , from the ultimate 57 There were practical men who criticized Lincoln's lack of ...
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