The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 5 Sep 2000 - 656 halaman 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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... Nature of Things . Glass , China , and Reputation , are easily crack'd , and never well mended . The Golden Age never was the present Age . Old Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones ; the Difference is only in the Price ...
... nature of power , let us at least do our duty , and , like wise men who value freedom , use our utmost care to support liberty , the only bulwark against lawless power , which , in all ages , has sacrificed to its wild lust and ...
... nature and the laws of our country have 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 ...
... nature - that aspiring , noble principle founded in benevolence , and cherished by knowledge ; I mean the love of power , which has been so often the cause of slavery - has , when- ever freedom has existed , been the cause of freedom ...
... nature ; search into the spirit of the British Constitution ; read the histories of ancient ages ; contemplate the great examples of Greece and Rome ; set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors , who have defended for us the ...
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