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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... happier man than I oth- erwise should have been if I had not attempted it . " 1. TEMPERATURE . Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation . 2. SILENCE . Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself ; avoid trifling conversation ...
... happiness — and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty , peace , and goodwill to man ! Let the bar proclaim " the laws , the rights , the generous plan of power " delivered down from remote antiquity - inform the world of ...
... Happiness . Thomas Jefferson ( 1743-1826 ) wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence as a member of a committee that included John Adams and Benjamin Franklin . The Continental Congress made significant changes in ...
... Happiness . - That to secure these rights , Governments are instituted among Men , deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed , —That when- ever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends , it is the Right ...
... her former connection with Great Britain , the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness , and will always have the same effect . Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument . We may as well assert.
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Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture Lori Landay Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |