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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... liberty to a generous mind is worse than death . In 1733 , John Peter Zenger began publishing The New York Weekly Jour- nal , which criticized the policies of the colonial governor . A year later , Zenger was arrested for seditious ...
... liberty , not only to differ from them in religious opinion , but to condemn them and their opinions too ; and I ... liberty , and while men keep within the bounds of truth , I hope they may with safety both speak and write their ...
... liberty to all other considerations , well knowing that without liberty life is a misery . . . . Power may justly be compared to a great river ; while kept within its bounds , it is both beautiful and useful , but when it over- flows ...
... liberty ; and I make no doubt but your upright conduct , this day , will not only entitle you to the love and esteem of your fellow citizen , but every man who prefers freedom to a life of slavery will bless and honor you as men who ...
... liberty . John Adams , then a young man of twenty - five , attended the proceedings and later wrote that Otis was " a flame of fire ! ... American independence was there and then born ; the seeds of patriots and heroes were then and ...