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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... effect with the " Letter to Colonel Ellsworth's Parents , " May 25 , 1861 , or the " Letter to Fanny Mc- Cullough , " December 23 , 1862 . The differences between these three masterpieces are not differences in literary success and ...
... effect with the " Letter to Colonel Ellsworth's Parents , " May 25 , 1861 , or the " Letter to Fanny Mc- Cullough , " December 23 , 1862 . The differences between these three masterpieces are not differences in literary success and ...
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... effect is , according to legal tradition at least , to make every statement incontestably clear , whereas in The Book of Common Prayer the effect is primarily one of incantation . Ob- viously , the effect in Lincoln's proclamations is ...
... effect is , according to legal tradition at least , to make every statement incontestably clear , whereas in The Book of Common Prayer the effect is primarily one of incantation . Ob- viously , the effect in Lincoln's proclamations is ...
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... effect . I had no intention of injuring your personal or private char- acter or standing as a man or a gentleman ; and I did not then think , and do not now think that that article could produce or has pro- duced that effect against you ...
... effect . I had no intention of injuring your personal or private char- acter or standing as a man or a gentleman ; and I did not then think , and do not now think that that article could produce or has pro- duced that effect against you ...
Contents
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
Letter to Miss Mary Owens May 7 1837 | 73 |
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