The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 05.09.2000 - 656 Seiten 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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... peoples presente condition ; and so I thinke will the reader too , when he well considers the same . Being thus passed the vast ocean , and a sea of troubles before in their prepa- ration ( as may be remembred by that which wente.
... passed , and was now as a maine barr and goulfe to seperate them from all the civil parts of the world . If it be said they had a ship to sucour them , it is trew ; but what heard they daly from the master and company ? but that with ...
... passed , and said , " Logan is the friend of white man . " I had even thought to have lived with you , but for the injuries of one man . Colonel Cresap , the last spring , in cold blood , and unprovoked , mur- dered all the relations of ...
... mankind , and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operations , such act will be an infringement of natural right . THOMAS PAINE COMMON SENSE O ye that love mankind ! 44 The American Reader.
... , can ye restore to us the time that is passed ? Can ye give to prostitution its former innocence ? Neither can ye reconcile Britain and America . The last cord now is broken ; the people of England are Colonial Days and the Revolution 49.
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