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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... nature , and the noble rank he holds among the works of God - that consent- ing to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust , as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness — and that ...
... nature and ends of government , and the means of preserving the good and demolishing the evil . Let the dialogues , and all the exercises , become the instruments of impressing on the tender mind , and of spreading and distributing far ...
... nature to degenerate , not excepting even the man , native or adoptive , physical or moral . " Jefferson offered Logan's speech as proof " of the talents of the aboriginals of this country , and particularly of their eloquence . " He ...
... nature hath placed in our power . Three millions of people , armed in the holy cause of liberty , and in such a country as that which we possess , are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us . Besides , sir , we ...
... nature itself , violat- ing its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him , captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere , or to incur miserable death in their ...
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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 |