Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural AddressTexas A&M University Press, 20/05/2003 - 176 من الصفحات 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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الصفحة xvi
... appeal but to force , the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well - disci- plined militia , our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over ...
... appeal but to force , the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well - disci- plined militia , our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over ...
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... appeal of Jefferson's inaugu- ral address is now universally acknowledged ; how curious , then , that it has yet to receive sustained and systematic analysis . This book repre- sents an attempt to initiate that process . I offer it as ...
... appeal of Jefferson's inaugu- ral address is now universally acknowledged ; how curious , then , that it has yet to receive sustained and systematic analysis . This book repre- sents an attempt to initiate that process . I offer it as ...
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... appeals , and imagery that make up the address ; stresses its pragmatic and instrumental character ; and invites us to at- tend to the complex field of operations within which the text embeds itself . As with any trained perspective ...
... appeals , and imagery that make up the address ; stresses its pragmatic and instrumental character ; and invites us to at- tend to the complex field of operations within which the text embeds itself . As with any trained perspective ...
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... appeals , and imagery . This mode of interpretation allows us to assemble under its auspices diverse but interdependent orientations . These orientations respectively situate the text as ( 1 ) a partisan act , the chief function of ...
... appeals , and imagery . This mode of interpretation allows us to assemble under its auspices diverse but interdependent orientations . These orientations respectively situate the text as ( 1 ) a partisan act , the chief function of ...
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... appeal of which no one was better suited to express than the Sage of Monticello . In chap- ter two , I suggest that , squinted at in the right light , Jefferson's text can be usefully read as the production of a serious and accomplished ...
... appeal of which no one was better suited to express than the Sage of Monticello . In chap- ter two , I suggest that , squinted at in the right light , Jefferson's text can be usefully read as the production of a serious and accomplished ...
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...