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 xiii
... citizens , Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country , I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow - citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor ...
... citizens , Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country , I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow - citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor ...
الصفحة xiv
... citizens , unite with one heart and one mind . Let us restore to social intercourse that har- mony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things . And let us reflect that , having banished from our land ...
... citizens , unite with one heart and one mind . Let us restore to social intercourse that har- mony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things . And let us reflect that , having banished from our land ...
الصفحة xv
... citizens , resulting not from birth , but from our actions and their sense of them ; enlightened by a benign re- ligion , professed , indeed , and practiced in various forms , yet all of them inculcating honesty , truth , temperance ...
... citizens , resulting not from birth , but from our actions and their sense of them ; enlightened by a benign re- ligion , professed , indeed , and practiced in various forms , yet all of them inculcating honesty , truth , temperance ...
الصفحة xvi
... citizens , to the post you have assigned me . With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this the greatest of all , I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to ...
... citizens , to the post you have assigned me . With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this the greatest of all , I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to ...
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... citizen , without any distinctive badge of office . " The president- elect was received by approximately a thousand supporters , congress- men , and the curious , most of whom had no chance of actually hear- ing the soft - spoken leader ...
... citizen , without any distinctive badge of office . " The president- elect was received by approximately a thousand supporters , congress- men , and the curious , most of whom had no chance of actually hear- ing the soft - spoken leader ...
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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...