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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... feels most persuasive to righteous- ness , and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards which , proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct , are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labors ...
... feel the precariousness with which all American prop- erty is possessed . But let our imaginations transport us for a few moments to Boston ; that seat of wretchedness will teach us wisdom , and instruct us forever to renounce a power ...
... , will suffer or rejoice alike . The heart that feels not now , is dead : the blood of his children will curse his cowardice , who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole 52 ☆ The American Reader.
... feel no concern from it ; but I should suffer the misery of devils , were I to make a whore of my soul by swear- ing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish , stupid , stubborn , worthless , brutish man . I conceive ...
... at a time to see this fair country discovered and settled ; he must necessarily feel a share of national pride , when he views the chain of settlements which embellishes these extended shores . When he says to himself.