The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000 M09 5 - 656 páginas 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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... becomes necessary Whe for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the Powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God ...
... become the executioners of their friends and Brethren , or to fall themselves by their Hands.- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us , and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers , the mer- ciless Indian ...
... become a precedent for the next twenty . But even this is admitting more than is true ; for I answer roundly , that America would have flourished as much , and proba- bly much more , had no European power taken any notice of her . The ...
... become convinced , that it is infinitely wiser and safer to form a constitition of our own in a cool deliberate manner , while we have it in our power , than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance .... Ye that tell us of ...
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