The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationThe 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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... known and loved by large numbers of ordinary Americans . With few exceptions , the political speeches of the recent past seem to me to be singularly devoid of lasting significance . There have been no public declarations that approach ...
... known as the Mayflower Compact , the signers pledged to create a body politic that would be based on the consent of the governed and ruled by law . And they further agreed to submit to the laws framed by the new body politic . The ...
... known places , much more to serch an unknown coast . Besids , what could they see but a hidious and desolate wilderness , full of wild beasts and willd men ? and what multituds ther might be of them they knew not . Nether could they ...
... the Mother of Good - Luck . He that lives upon Hope , dies farting . Do not do that which you would not have known . Wealth is not his that has it , but his that enjoys it . Now I've a sheep and a cow , every body 8 The American Reader.
... known to be such , Mr. Attorney , with the help of his innuendoes , would easily turn it into a libel . As for instance : Isaiah 11:16 : " The leaders of the peo- ple cause them to err , and they that are led by them are destroyed ...