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 to dulness , weakness , or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation . 13. HUMILITY . Imitate Jesus and Socrates . DEFENSE OF FREEDOM OF THE PRESS The loss of liberty Colonial Days and the Revolution 13.
... peace precedents of general warrants to search sus- pected houses . But in more modern books you will find only spe- cial warrants to search such and such houses , specially named , in which the complainant has before sworn that he ...
... peace , and goodwill to man ! Let the bar proclaim " the laws , the rights , the generous plan of power " delivered down from remote antiquity - inform the world of the mighty struggles and numberless sacrifices made by our ancestors in ...
... peace . Such was my love for the whites , that my countrymen pointed as they passed , and said , " Logan is the friend of white man . " I had even thought to have lived with you , but for the injuries of one man . Colonel Cresap , the ...
... peace and rec- onciliation . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free - if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending - if we mean not basely to abandon the ...