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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... civil . Let us study the law of nature ; search into the spirit of the British Constitution ; read the histories of ancient ages ; contemplate the great examples of Greece and Rome ; set before us the conduct of our own British ...
... civil and religious principles and hopes and expectations which constantly supported and carried them through all hardships with patience and resignation . Let us recol- lect it was liberty , the hope of liberty for themselves and us ...
... has kept among us , in times of peace , Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures . He has affected to render the Mili- tary independent of and superior to the Civil power . Colonial Days and the Revolution 39.
Words That Moved a Nation Diane Ravitch. tary independent of and superior to the Civil power . He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his Assent ...
... civil incapacitations , tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness , and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion , who being lord both of body and mind , yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on ...