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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... hear I cannot but stay and make a pause , and stand half amased at this poore 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 ...
... Hear no ill of a Friend , nor speak any of an Enemy . Pay what you owe , and you'll know what's your own . Proclaim not all thou knowest , all thou owest , all thou hast , nor all thou canst . To bear other Peoples Afflictions , every ...
... hear , read , or sing ? Or when must he laugh , so as to be secure from being taken up as a libeler ? I sincerely believe that were some persons to go through the streets of New York nowadays and read a part of the Bible , if it were ...
... hear the greatest monarch upon earth declaring from his throne that he glories in the name of Briton , and that the privileges of his people are dearer to him than the most valuable prerogatives of his crown ; and as it is in opposition ...
... hear the danger of thraldom to our con- sciences from ignorance , extreme poverty , and dependence ; in short , from civil and political slavery . Let us see delineated before us the true map of man . Let us hear the dignity of his ...
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The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism Has Undermined the ... John J. Miller Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |
Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture Lori Landay Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |