 | Robert C. Winthrop - 1867
...defend the vigorous youth, the -non sine Diis animosus infans. Every man of a crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against...the child Independence was born. In fifteen years, namely, in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free." What a picture is this to have... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1867
...the vigorous youth, were then and there sown. Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to mo to go away as I did, ready to take Arms against Writs...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." Tudor's Life of James Otis, pp. 60, 61 . Otis was struck dead by lightning, while leaning on his walking-cane... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1869
...thankful that its shell, if nothing more, is spared, — was " the first scene," as John Adams declared, " of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain," when James Otis, " a flame of fire," blazed out in burning argument against Writs of Assistance, and... | |
 | Charles E. Grinnell - 1871 - 61 páginas
...contemplation of all members of Congress." — JOHN ADAMS to Mercy Warren. "Otis was a flame of fire. . . . Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposicould not claim had it sprung up suddenly, one summer's day, like Jonah's gourd, as a matter... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874
...heroes were then and there sown, to defend the vigorous youth. Every man of a crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born."2 But this great birth is inseparably associated with the principle, then and there declared,... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1875 - 536 páginas
...heroes were then and there sown, to defend the vigorous youth. Every man of a crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." C. Sumner. CCLXXXII. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF LOUISIANA. restoration of Louisiana to the Union of States,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 444 páginas
...heroes were then and there sown, to defend the vigorous youth. Every man of a crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." XCIX. —THE PAUPER'S DEATH-BED. CB SOUTHEY. CAROLINE ANN BOWLES, who became, June 4,1839, the second... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1876
...heroes were then and there sown, to defend the vigorous youth. Every man of a crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born."2 But this great birth is inseparably associated with the principle, then and there declared,... | |
 | 1876
...to have grown with years, " Otis was a flame of fire. American independence was then and there born. Then and there was the first scene of the first act...opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain." Treating the drama of which he speaks as the united opposition of the colonies, the remark is just.... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1876
...him. American independence was then and there born. Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against Writs of Assistance." A similar spirit of resistance to English Interference in colonial matters was manifested in what is... | |
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Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take arms against Writs of Assistance. Then and there, was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there, the... 
