Reading With Lincoln

Index

253 Index “Adam and Eve’s Wedding Song” (Lincoln ), 107 Adams, James, 9, 91, 100 Addison, Joseph, 6, 21, 74 Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons (Parker), 177 “Address to the Deil” (Burns), 91 “Address to the Unco Guid” (Burns), 92–93 Aesop’s Fables, 19–23, 182, 233n. 62 Age of Reason (Paine): analytical methods used in, 77; on authenticity of scriptures , 78; on Christianity, 72–73; Lincoln and, 45, 69; popularity of, 70; scandalous nature of, 48; on source of wisdom, 75 Aikin, John, 11 Aitken, R., 20 Akers, Peter, 160 allodial property, 151–52 Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems (Halleck ), 122–23 ambition: in Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, 51; in Gray’s “Elegy,” 84–85; of Lincoln, 47, 57, 68–69, 86, 198–200; in “Parrhasius ,” 122; in Shakespeare’s plays, 212–13, 215 American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster), 192 American Preceptor, The (Bingham), 10, 232n. 37 American Revolution, 55, 64 American Speaker, 10 American Union, 26, 172, 180–81, 184 Ancient History (Rollin), 50–51 Angle, Paul M., 99 anticlericalism, 85. See also preachers; priests antiempiricism, of Smith, 155 Antonines, the, 51, 54–55 Arabian Nights, 28–31 Aristotle, 214 Arminianism, 94 Arnold, Isaac Newton, 88, 201 association of ideas principle, 145 Atkinson, Eleanor, 29 Augustus, 54–55 Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, An (Riley), 32–34 Bacon, Francis, 194–200, 213 Bailey, Nathan, 44 Baldwin, Joseph Glover, 194 Bale, Hardin, 58, 77, 79 “Baltimore” (Newell), 209–10 Baptist Calvinism, 140 Barclay, James, 44 Barlow, Joel, 57, 58, 59–60, 70 Barton, William E., 136–37, 152–53 Battle of Fredericksburg, Lincoln’s response to, 201 Battle of Trenton, 24–25 Bay, J. Christian, 16 Beecher, Henry Ward, 193 Bentham, Jeremy, 141 Beveridge, Albert J., 15–16, 44, 49, 58, 193 Bible: Ecclesiastes, 13, 30–31, 198; Genesis, 197; Hebrews, 191; inconsistencies and contradictions in, 68; Job, 75; King James version, 189; 2 Kings, 193; in Lincoln’s America, 189–90; Lincoln’s doubt of scriptural veracity, 77; Mark, 21, 182; New Testament, 72, 156; Psalms, 74; selection of books of, 73; Smith’s defense of, 156–57 Bingham, Caleb, 10–11, 232n. 37 biographies: of Lord Byron, 102, 109; in Columbian Class Book, 12; of Lincoln, 1, 32, 49; mock, of Garibaldi, 209 “Birds of Killingsworth” (Longfellow), 129 blab schools, 3 “Blackamoor, The” (Aesop), 22–23 Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 147–52 Blair, Hugh, 5–6, 46–47 blockheads, 22 Booth, Edwin, 213–14 Borrett, George, 209 Boston Tea Party, 134 %UD\,QGH[LQGG $0 254 INDEX Boyhood of Lincoln, The (Atkinson), 29 Bride of Abydos (Byron), 104–6 “Brief View of the Universe, A” (Goldsmith), 12 Brooks, Noah, 88, 126–27, 129, 133, 214 Brown, John, 164 Browne, Charles Farrar (Artemus Ward), 194, 200–203 Browning, Eliza, 120 Browning, Orville Hickman, 123 Bryant, William Cullen, 52–54, 130–31 Buchanan, James, 182, 186 “Building of the Ship” (Longfellow), 129, 132–33 Bunyan, John, 36–40 Burke, Edmund, 10 Burns, Robert: Lincoln’s love for work of, 82, 88; self-education of, 87; works by, 91–93, 95–98, 100 Burr, Aaron, 10 Burton, Richard, 30, 31 Butler, William A., 128 Byron, George Gordon, Lord: biography of, 102, 109; Lincoln’s affinities with, 82, 101–2, 107, 112; sexuality of, 101, 109, 119; view of sexual politics, 118–19; works by, 102–7, 111–18, 118–21 cabinet meeting, to discuss Emancipation Proclamation preliminary draft, 200 Calvinism, 140–41 “Campaign Circular” (Lincoln), 21 Cannon, LeGrand B., 216–17 Carey, Henry C., 245–46n. 58 Carman, Caleb, 78 Carpenter, Francis B., 121, 134, 201–2, 213, 216–17 Cartwright, Peter, 18, 56, 65–66, 78–79, 94–95, 140 Categorical Imperative, 174 “Cauld Comfort” (H.), 98 causation, 144–45 cause and effect, 143, 155, 159 Chambers, Robert, 158–62 Chambrun, Marquis de, 210, 217 Channing, William Ellery, 161, 170–71, 172–76 Channing, William Henry, 187 Charleston Mercury (newspaper), 169 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), 106–7, 114–15 Chitty, Joseph A., 152 choler, 198 Christianity: Lincoln’s arguments against, 69–70, 77–78; Paine and, 58, 78; Parker and, 142–43, 175–76; and resurrection of Christ, 72–73; Smith’s work on, 152–58. See also religion Christian rhetoric, in House Divided speech, 191 Christian’s Defence, The (Smith), 152–58 Church of England orthodoxy, Blackstone and, 149 Cicero, 185 civil matters, interference of religious authorities in, 66–67 Clay, Henry, 179...