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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... 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.
... give ; she would cease to be nature if she did . As well can the lover forgive the ravisher of his mistress , as the continent forgive the murders of Britain . The Almighty hath implanted in us these unextinguishable feelings for good ...
... gives every thing its value . Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods ; and it would be strange indeed , if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated . Britain , with an army to enforce her tyranny ...
... give up a people to military destruction , or leave them unsup- portedly to perish , who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war , by every decent method which wis- dom could invent . Neither have I so ...
... give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend . Why then , not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity . Men of Sense in all Ages ...
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