All 4 Uses
malice
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Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
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- Here is a drama in which a great man shoulders the torment and moral burdens of a blimdering and sinful people, suffers for them, and redeems them with hallowed Christian virtues—"malice toward none and charity for all"—and is destroyed at the pitch of his success.†
Subsection 1 *malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- It was the conviction of a man without haste and without malice, but it was not the philosophy of a reformer.†
Subsection 6
- Lincoln's utter lack of personal malice during these years, his humane detachment, his tragic sense of life, have no parallel in political history.†
Subsection 7
- Reassuring the apologetic actor James Hackett, who had unwittingly aroused a storm of hostile laughter by publishing a confidential letter, Lincoln added that he was quite used to it: "I have received a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule."†
Subsection 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(malice) the intention or desire to see others suffer
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)