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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... whole countrie , full of woods and thickets , represented a wild and savage heiw . If they looked behind them , ther was the mighty ocean which they had passed , and was now as a maine barr and goulfe to seperate them from all the civil ...
... whole range of an argument , that may , perhaps , appear uncommon in many things , as well as to points of learning that are more remote and unusual : that the whole tendency of my design may the more eas- ily be perceived , the ...
... whole truth ; to know the worst and to provide for it . I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience . I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past . And judging by the past , I wish ...
... whole En- glish army , after ravaging the kingdom of France , was driven back like men petrified with fear ; and this brave exploit was performed by a few broken forces collected and headed by a woman , Joan of Arc . Would that heaven ...
... whole , and made them happy . I love the man that can smile in trouble , that can gather strength from distress , and grow brave by reflection . ' Tis the busi- ness of little minds to shrink ; but he whose heart is firm , and whose ...