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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... cause of slavery - has , when- ever freedom has existed , been the cause of freedom . If it is this principle that has always prompted the princes and nobles of the earth by every species of fraud and violence to shake off all the ...
... cause , the interest and trust , is insidiously betrayed , or wantonly trifled away , the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed , and to constitute abler and better agents , attorneys , and ...
... 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'll show in support of our laws ; To die we can bear - but to serve we disdain , For shame is to ...
... cause an act of the legislative to be pessed that we may obtain our Natural right our freedoms and our children be set at lebety at the yeare of twenty one for whoues sekes more peteque- ley your Petitioners is in Duty ever to pray ...
... cause of liberty , and in such a country as that which we possess , are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us . Besides , sir , we shall not fight our battles alone . There is a just God who presides over the ...