Gettysburg Address
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The orator of the day was Edward Everett, a famed speak...
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address
Delivered November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The president mourns fallen soldiers
"In a larger sense we cannot dedi...
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Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln
Jn July 1863, it was not at all clear to President Abraham Lincoln or the rest of the nation whether the North or South would emerge victorious from the Civil ...
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In the Gettysburg address, Abraham Lincoln uses different rhetorical strategies to effectively make his point. In different excerpts from the address, Lincoln uses euphemism, hyperbole, or understate...
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This speech of Socrates, delivered in 399 BC, comes from Plato's Apology- (defence) and is Plato's account of the speech Socrates gave to the court established to hear a case for Socrates' execution o...
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For Abraham Lincoln's `Gettysburg Address', Vaclev Havel's speech on `the contaminated moral environment' of Czechoslovakia and Mary McAleese's address to Harvard University on `the defence of freedom...
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Six activities, each with two parts--narrative and review, help students understand Lincoln, the Battle of Gettysburg and this most eloquent argument for democracy.
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Six activities, each with two parts - narrative and review, help students understand Lincoln, the Battle of Gettysburg and this most eloquent argument for democracy.This enhanced eBook gives you th...
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Abraham Lincoln has been dead for 142 years, but he still manages to make medical headlines, this time from doctors who say he had a bad case of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg Address.Ph...
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He speaks English and shows it off by reciting the Gettysburg Address. Now former President Jiang Zemin is adopting another Western custom: the post-retirement publishing binge.
Ahead of h...
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Abraham Lincoln has been dead for 142 years, but he still manages to make medical headlines, this time from doctors who say he had a bad case of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg Address.Ph...
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Home to Hallowed Ground by Stuart Englert Roy Frampton bends down to plant a small American flag in the ground at Gettysburg National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa. (pop. 7,490). Walking from tombston...
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America can be hard to love these days. And persuading non-Americans even to like it can seem an impossible task.
Believe me, for I have tried.
Last week, in the run-up to the Fourth of July, I wa...
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It was not your typical V.F.W. reunion. First off, most of the war vets were Communists, either current or former, possibly Anarchists. (At least one could quote Bakunin.) Also, most of them had be...
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Like the conductor of his own chamber orchestra, Garry Wills presides over three metal music stands while at work in his study, his chosen "scores" including dictionaries of Greek, Latin and Italia...
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The SAT, that infamous rite of terror and No. 2 pencils, is still a solid four months away for this year’s crop of precocious high-school juniors. But in certain precincts of the city—t...
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The president of the United States stands at the podium in the American Capitol, facing us all — Congress, the Cabinet, a television audience of millions. He struggles for the right words to ...
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Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address
Rhetorical Strategies in the Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg Address
Doctors say Lincoln had severe smallpox when he delivered Gettysburg Address
