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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... hope of liberty for themselves and us and ours , which conquered all the discouragements , dangers , and tri- als . In such researches as these let us all in our several departments cheerfully engage but especially the proper patrons ...
... hope to succeed , For Heaven approves of each generous deed . All ages shall speak with amaze and applause , Of the courage we'll show in support of our laws ; To die we can bear - but to serve we disdain , For shame is to freedom more ...
... hope . We I've are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth , and listen to the song of that siren , till she transforms us into beasts . Is this the part of wise men , engaged in a great and arduous struggle for lib- erty ? Are we ...
... hope of 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 ...
... hope , until our ene- mies shall have bound us hand and foot ? Sir , we are not weak , if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power . Three millions of people , armed in the holy cause of liberty ...