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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... Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself ; avoid trifling conversation . 3. ORDER . Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time . 4. RESOLUTION . Resolve to perform what you ought ; 12 ...
... speak , speak accordingly . 8. JUSTICE . Wrong none by doing injuries , or omitting the benefits that are your duty . 9. MODERATION . Avoid extreams ; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve . 10. CLEANLINESS ...
... speaking about matters of faith or religion , we are in the right ; for , though it is said there are very great ... speak and write their sentiments of the conduct of men of power ; I mean of that part of their conduct only which ...
... speak or write , or what must he hear , read , or sing ? Or when must he laugh , so as to be secure from being taken up as a libeler ? I sincerely believe that were some persons to go through the streets of New York nowadays and read a ...
... given us a right — the liberty of both exposing and opposing arbitrary power ( in these parts of the world at least ) by speaking and writing truth . . . . JAMES OTIS A DEMAND TO LIMIT SEARCH AND SEIZURE A 18 The American Reader.