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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... live , Our purses are ready , Steady , Friends , Steady . Not as slaves , but as Freemen our money we'll give . Our worthy Forefathers - Let's give them a cheer To Climates unknown did courageously steer ; Thro ' Oceans , to deserts ...
... Lives are imbittered to us on these accounts By our deplorable situation we are rendered incapable of shewing our obedience to Almighty God how can a slave perform the duties of a husband to a wife or parent to his child How can a ...
... Live in love let Broth- erly Love contuner and abound Beare yea onenothers Bordenes How can the master be said to Beare my Borden when he Beares me down whith the Have chances of slavery and operson against my will and how can we ...
... reliance on the protection of divine Providence , we mutually pledge to each other our Lives , our Fortunes and our sacred Honor . THOMAS JEFFERSON A BILL FOR ESTABLISHING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN VIRGINIA Colonial Days and the Revolution 41.
... live distant from the scene of present sorrow ; the evil is not sufficiently brought to their doors to make them feel the precariousness with which all American prop- erty is possessed . But let our imaginations transport us for a few ...
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