The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000 M09 5 - 656 pages 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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... never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went . " I looked for entries that almost everyone once seemed to know or still does know , words that have resonated in the national consciousness , words that have ...
... never be disappointed . If thou injurest Conscience , it will have its Revenge on thee . 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 ...
... never well mended . The Golden Age never was the present Age . Old Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones ; the Difference is only in the Price . Haste makes Waste . Love your Neighbour ; yet don't pull down your Hedge . A ...
... never produced anything superior to this morsel of eloquence . " Logan's speech was a regular feature in school reading books of the nineteenth century , and was familiar to generations of American youngsters . I appeal to any white man ...
... never felt fear . He will not turn on his heel to save his life . Who is there to mourn for Logan ? -Not one . THE SLAVES ' APPEAL TO THE ROYAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS We are a freeborn Pepel and have never forfeited this Blessing by ...