Uex American Literature E316K - Quotes

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"They are all ignorant of time, either by the sun or moon, nor do they reckon by the month or year; they better know and understand the differences of the seasons, when the fruits come to ripen, where the fish resort, and the position of the stars, at which they are ready and practiced. By these we were ever well-treated."

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i. Title: The Narrative of Alvar Nunez
ii. Author: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
iii. Genre: Narrative
iv. Theme: Native American description/appreciation

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"When the sacrifice was finished, the messengers reported to the king. They told him how they had made the journey, and what they had seen, and what food the strangers ate. Motecuhzoma was astonished and terrified by their report, and the description of the strangers' food astonished him above all else."

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i. Title: Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
ii. Author: Unknown
iii. Genre: Account
iv. Theme: fear of Spanish dominance

Front 3

"And yet I think they should not have half such sweet content for our pleasure here is still gains; in England charges and loss. Here nature and liberty afford us that freely which in England we want, or it costs us dearly."

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i. Title: A Description of New England
ii. Author: Captain John Smith
iii. Genre: Account
iv. Theme: Opportunity, nature

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"And I believed and now believe that people do come here for the mainland to take them as slaves. They ought to be good servants and of good skill, for I see that they repeat very quickly whatever was said to them. I believe they would easily be made Christians, because it seemed to me that they belonged to no religion."

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i. Title: The First Voyage: The West Indies
ii. Author: Christopher Columbus
iii. Genre: Account
iv. Theme: discovery & persuasion

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"Taking it for granted that there are Witches in NEW ENGLAND, which no rational man will dare to deny; I ask whether Innocent Persons may not be falsely accused of Witchcraft?"

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i. Author: Samuel Willard
ii. Title: Some Miscellany Observations on our Present Debates in a Dialogue between S&B
iii. Genre: account
iv. Theme: Validity of the Witch Trials

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"Beloved there is now set before us life, and good, death and evil in that wee are Commaunded this day to love the Lord or God, and to love one another to walk in his ways and to keepe his Commaundements and his Ordinance, and his lawes, and the Articles of our Covenant with him that wee may live and be multiplied ..."

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i. Author: John Winthrop
ii. Title: A Model of Christian Charity
iii. Genre: Sermon
iv. Theme: Christian potential in New World

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"And here I cannot but remember how many times, sitting in their Wigwams, and musing on things past, I should suddenly leap up and run out, as if I had been at home, forgetting where I was, and what my condition was: but, when I was without, and saw nothing but Wilderness and Woods, and a company of barbarous Heathen; my mind quickly returned to me ..."

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i. Author: Mary Rowlandson
ii. Title: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
iii. Genre: captivity narrative
iv. Theme: Spiritual survival

Front 8

"This done, we shall probably find that they are formed in mind as well as in body, on the same module with the Homo sapiens Europaeus."

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i. Author: Thomas Jefferson
ii. Title: Notes on the State of Virginia
iii. Genre: Descriptive Account
iv. Theme: Describe VA, Indian intellect

Front 9

"That your Petitioners apprehend we have in common with all other men a naturel right to our freedoms without Beign deriv'd of them by our fellow men as we are a freeborn Pepel and have never forfeited this Blessing by any compact or agreement whatever."

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i. Author: Anonymous
ii. Title: Black Petitions for Freedom, To Thomas Gage and the House of Representatives
iii. Genre: Letter
iv. Theme: equality of races

Front 10

"I cannot much boast of much Success in acquiring the Reality of this Virtue; but I had a good deal with regard to the Appearance of it ..."

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i. Author: Benjamin Franklin
ii. Title: The Autobiography, 1706 - 1790
iii. Genre: Autobiography
iv. Theme: self-improvement, virtues

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

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i. Author: Thomas Jefferson
ii. Title: Declaration of Independence
iii. Genre: Letter
iv. Theme: rights of man, natural born rights or freedoms

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"Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could."

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i. Author: Abigail Adams
ii. Title: Letter to John Adams, The Passion for Liberty
iii. Genre: Letter
iv. Theme: Describe VA, Indian intellect

Front 13

"Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds, and the Great Sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Good Spirit make them all for the use of his children?"

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i. Title: Words of Tecumseh
ii. Author: Chief Tecumseh
iii. Genre: Speech
iv. Theme: Bravery, land ownership

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"The waves of population and civilization are rolling to the westward, and we now propose to acquire the countries occupied by the red men of the South and West by a fair exchange, and, at the expense of the United States, to send them to a land where their existence may be prolonged and perhaps be made perpetual."

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i. Title: Westward the Course of Empire
ii. Author: Andrew Jackson
iii. Genre: Address
iv. Theme: Just expansion

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"But you may say we are women, how can our hearts endure persecution?"

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i. Title: Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
ii. Author: Angelina Grimke
iii. Genre: Rhetoric, Letter
iv. Theme: anti-slavery persuasion

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"The savage was a Mingo, it's true; and I make not doubt he is, and will be as long as he lives, a ra'al riptyle and vagabond; but that's no reason I should forget my gifts and color."

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i. Title: The Deerslayer
ii. Author: James Fenimore Cooper
iii. Genre: Fiction, melodrama
iv. Theme: The theme here is American adventure.

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"The mother of slaves is very watchful. She knows there is no security for her children."

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i. Title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
ii. Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs
iii. Genre: Slave Narrative
iv. Theme: Social Injustice

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"To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished; the one always following the other with immutable certainty."

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i. Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
ii. Author: Frederick Douglas
iii. Genre: Autobiography; slave narrative
iv. Theme: Life of an American Slave

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"This is God's curse on slavery! —A bitter, bitter, most accursed thing! —A curse to the master and a curse to the slave!"

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i. Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
ii. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
iii. Genre: Novel (fiction)
iv. Theme:Slavery (?)

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"If you show by a chance remark that you see that some particular creature more shameless than the rest has no end of children and no beginning of a husband, you are frowned upon."

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i. Title: A Diary from Dixie
ii. Author: Mary BM Chestnut
iii. Genre: Historic Document
iv. Theme: Civil War politics

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"Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease."

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i. Title: Second Inaugural Address
ii. Author: Abraham Lincoln
iii. Genre: Speech
iv. Theme: Advancement of the union

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"And were You—saved—/And I—condemned to be/Where You were not—/That self—were Hell to Me-"

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i. Title: I Cannot Live With You
ii. Author: Emily Dickinson
iii. Genre: Poetry
iv. Theme: Impossible Love

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"I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, /Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,/Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,..."

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i. Title: Leaves of Grass: Song of Myself
ii. Author: Walt Whitman
iii. Genre: Poetry
iv. Theme: Self-description

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"With all this groping, this mad desire, a great blind intellect stumbling through wrong, a loving poet's heart, the man was by habit only a coarse, vulgar laborer, familiar with sights and words you would blush to name."

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i. Title: Life in the Iron Mills
ii. Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
iii. Genre: realist novella
iv. Theme: labor/women's rights awareness

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"This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will."

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i. Title: Resistance to Civil Government
ii. Author: Henry David Thoreau
iii. Genre: nonfiction
iv. Theme: limit government

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"The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man."

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i. Title: Young Goodman Brown
ii. Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
iii. Genre: Fiction
iv. Theme: Spiritual Warfare/Hidden Puritan evilness

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"The messages of great poets to each man and woman are, Come to us on equal terms, Only then can you understand us, We are no better than you, What we enclose you enclose, What we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme?"

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i. Title: Leaves of Grass
ii. Author: Walt Whitman
iii. Genre: Poetry
iv. Theme: Wartime Identity

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"When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other."

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i. Title: Walden
ii. Author: Henry David Thoreau
iii. Genre: nonfiction anecdote
iv. Theme: self-reliance, nature