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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... means of preserving the good and demolishing the evil . Let the dialogues , and all the exercises , become the instruments of impressing on the tender mind , and of spreading and distributing far and wide , the ideas of right and the ...
... means this martial array , if its purpose be not to force us to submission ? Can gentlemen assign any other possible ... mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending - if we mean not ...
... means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs , and hugging the delusive phantom of hope , until our ene- mies shall have bound us hand and foot ? Sir , we are not weak , if we make a proper use of the means which the God ...
... mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without , and convul- sions within . He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturaliza- tion of Foreigners ...