An Oration, Delivered at Sharon, Conn
Title | An Oration, Delivered at Sharon, Conn PDF eBook |
Author | William Rockwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1827 |
Genre | Fourth of July orations |
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The Religious Intelligencer
Title | The Religious Intelligencer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 838 |
Release | 1825 |
Genre | Theology |
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Union catalogs |
ISBN |
A Speaking Aristocracy
Title | A Speaking Aristocracy PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Grasso |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807839205 |
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new ways. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut. In New England through the first half of the century, only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century, concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people but rather as a civic conversation of the people.
Speech of Hon. James Dixon, of Conn., Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, June 25, 1862, on His Resolution Respecting the Legal Effect of Acts Or Ordinances of Secession
Title | Speech of Hon. James Dixon, of Conn., Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, June 25, 1862, on His Resolution Respecting the Legal Effect of Acts Or Ordinances of Secession PDF eBook |
Author | James Dixon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Secession |
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Title | Bulletin of the New York Public Library PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | |
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Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society
Title | Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society PDF eBook |
Author | John Appleton (M.D.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 1860 |
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