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Article: Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America.(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1993
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The official orator at Gettysburg was Edward Everett, President of Harvard and America's most distinguished Hellenic scholar. He spoke for two hours, though without a text, a 58-paragraph survey not only of the War but of episodes drawn from Greek -- and French Revolutionary -- history. This was then the expected and familiar funerary fashion. Lincoln spoke for three minutes, in a bare plain prose, rich in its biblical cadence, and strongly ...
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