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Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was an American politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, as a Whig, served as U.S. representative, U.S. senator, the 15th governor of Massachusetts, minister to Great Britain, and United States secretary of state.
Un periódico europeo habló en 1850 de los Estados Unidos como de un imperio maravilloso, que surgía y que “en el silencio de la tierra crecía constantemente en poder y gloria” (Dublin Nation). Edward Everett, en un discurso acerca de los peregrinos, fundadores de esta nación, dijo: “¿Buscaron un lugar retirado que por su oscuridad ...
Vita: Edward Everett. Brief life of a statesman-orator: 1794-1865. November-December 2013. History has not been kind to Edward Everett. A preeminent public man of the nineteenth century, brilliant and honored, he is today too often relegated to a supporting role: it was Everett whose 13,000-word oration, delivered at the dedication of a ...
A European journal in 1850 spoke of the United States as a wonderful empire, which was “emerging,” and “amid the silence of the earth daily adding to its power and pride.”—The Dublin Nation. Edward Everett, in an oration on the Pilgrim founders of this nation, said: “Did they look for a retired spot, inoffensive for its obscurity ...
7 de abr. de 2024 · Gettysburg Address. Edward Everett (born April 11, 1794, Dorchester, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 15, 1865, Boston) was an American statesman and orator who is mainly remembered for delivering the speech immediately preceding President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19, 1863) at the ceremony dedicating the Gettysburg ...
Edward Everett was famous. Everyone knew he was the nation's best public speaker. When officials planned a ceremony to dedicate a national cemetery at Gettysburg, they knew who to ask to speak.
Abstract. This chapter argues that the building of a cultural nationalism independent from the former British imperial influence was essential to American exceptionalism. The complementary work of two leading exponents of this view, George Bancroft and Edward Everett, are examined in detail.
