The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 05/09/2000 - 656 páginas 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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... Give me your tired , your poor , Your huddled masses , yearning to breathe free , / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore . / Send these , the homeless , tempest - tost to me , / I lift my lamp beside the golden door ! " And was ...
... give a very sufficient answer . I renounced that office , and I argue this cause from the same principle ; and I argue it with the greater plea- sure , as it is in favor of British liberty , at a time when we hear the greatest monarch ...
... give . Our worthy Forefathers - Let's give them a cheer To Climates unknown did courageously steer ; Thro ' Oceans , to deserts , for freedom they came , And dying bequeath'd us their freedom and Fame . Their generous bosoms all dangers ...
... give this its deer weight and consideration and that you will accordingly cause an act of the legislative to be ... give me liberty , or give me death ! Patrick Henry ( 1736-1799 ) was a leading patriot in the revolutionary cause . Born ...
... give me lib- erty , or give me death ! THOMAS JEFFERSON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE We hold these truths 36 The American Reader.
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