The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000年9月5日 - 656 頁 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 with his fellow citizens , he has a natural right ; that it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage , by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honors and emoluments those who will ...
... of mankind , and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operations , such act will be an infringement of natural right . THOMAS PAINE COMMON SENSE O ye that love mankind ! 44 The American Reader.
... Common Sense , a fifty - page pamphlet that was published January 10 , 1776. It was an immediate sensation . More than 100,000 copies were sold within three months , and possibly as many as 500,000 copies altogether , to a colonial ...
... common order of nature , it is evident that they belong to different systems . England to Europe : America to itself .... But where , say some , is the king of America ? I'll tell you , friend , he reigns above , and doth not make havoc ...
... common animals . The social compact would dissolve , and justice be extirpated from the earth , or have only a casual exis- tence , were we callous to the touches of affection . The robber and the murderer would often escape unpunished ...