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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... citizens of a society could join freely and agree to govern themselves by making laws for the common good . On November 11 , 1620 , after sixty - six days at sea , the sailing ship Mayflower approached land . On board were 102 ...
... citizen , but every man who prefers freedom to a life of slavery will bless and honor you as men who have baffled the attempt of tyranny , and , by an impartial and uncorrupt verdict , have laid a noble foundation for securing to ...
... Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country , to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren , or to fall themselves by their Hands.- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us , and has ...
... citizens , he has a natural right ; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage , by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honors and emoluments those who will externally profess and conform ...
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