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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... spirit of a sycophant .... Every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual . Our prayers have been rejected with disdain ; and have tended to con- vince us that nothing flatters vanity or confirms obstinacy in kings more than ...
... spirit up her countrymen , and save her fair fellow sufferers from ravage and ravishment ! ... ... I call not upon a few , but upon all : not on this state or that state , but on every state ; up and help us ; lay your shoulders to the ...
... spirit endow'd , they one friendship pursued , And their temple was Liberty Tree . Beneath this fair branch , like the patriarchs of old , Their bread , in contentment they eat ; Unwearied with trouble , of silver or gold , Or the cares ...