The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 5. 9. 2000. - 656 страница The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... causes a poem to become a permanent tenant in one's brain . Almost no one memorizes anything anymore ; our nation's pedagogical leaders long ago decided that this was an abomination and an infringement on the rights of childhood . Yet ...
... I could say in this cause .... There is heresy in law as well as in religion , and both have changed very much ; and we well know that it is not two centuries ago that a man would have burned as a heretic ANDREW HAMILTON.
... cause them to err , and they that are led by them are destroyed . " But should Mr. Attorney go about to make this a libel , he would read it thus : " The leaders of the people " ( innu- endo , the Governor and council of New York ) " cause ...
... cause of a poor printer , nor of New York alone , which you are now trying . No ! It may , in its consequence , affect every free man that lives under a British government on the main continent of Amer- ica . It is the best cause ; it ...
... cause , as I engaged in it from principle . I was solicited to argue this cause as Advocate General ; and because I would not , I have been charged with desertion from my office . To this charge I can give a very sufficient answer . I ...