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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... and often just to annoy the British and their American friends . People quickly took up the song's credo : " By uniting we stand , by dividing we fall . " Come join hand in hand brave Americans all , And 28 The American Reader.
... hand in hand brave Americans all , By uniting we stand , by dividing we fall ; In so Righteous a cause let us hope to succeed , For Heaven approves of each generous deed . All ages shall speak with amaze and applause , Of the courage we ...
... hand of power from our dearest frinds and sum of us stolen from the bosoms of our tender Parents and from a Populous Pleasant and plentiful country and Brought hither to be made slaves for Life in a Christian land . Thus we are deprived ...
... hands of the ministry and parliament . Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult ; our supplications have been disregarded ; and we have been spurned , with contempt , from the ...
... hand and foot ? Sir , we are not weak , if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power . Three millions of people , armed in the holy cause of liberty , and in such a country as that which we ...