The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 05 սեպ, 2000 թ. - 656 էջ 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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... Common Sense 45 THOMAS PAINE : The American Crisis 50 THOMAS PAINE : Liberty Tree 54 ABIGAIL ADAMS : Correspondence with John 55 J. HECTOR ST . JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR : Letters from 58 an American Farmer ALEXANDER HAMILTON : The Federalist ...
... common good . On November 11 , 1620 , after sixty - six days at sea , the sailing ship Mayflower approached land . On board were 102 passengers . Their destina- tion was the area at the mouth of the Hudson River , but because of rough ...
... common or unavoidable . 12. CHASTITY . Rarely use venery but for health or offspring , never to dulness , weakness , or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation . 13. HUMILITY . Imitate Jesus and Socrates . DEFENSE OF ...
... common people to aspire at independency , and to endeavor at confining the power of the great within the limits of equity and reason . The poor people , it is true , have been much less successful than the great . They have seldom found ...
... common with all other men a naturel right to our freedoms without Being depriv'd of them by our fellow men as we are a freeborn Pepel and have never forfeited this Blessing by aney compact or agreement what- ever . But we were unjustly ...