 | Frederick Freeman - Barnstable County (Mass.) - 1860 - 886 pages
...summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence,...appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance." The same year the gifted orator and patriot was chosen a representative... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 558 pages
...to defend the Non Sine Diis Animosus Infans, to defend the vigorous youth, were then and there sown. Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared...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... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - United States - 1860 - 566 pages
...to defend the Non Sine Diis Animosus Infans, to defend the vigorous youth, were then and there sown. Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared...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... | |
 | Georg Weber - World history - 1860 - 634 pages
...marked effect on public opinion in Massachusetts. John Adams, who was present at its delivery, says, " Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared...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... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 782 pages
...American independence was then and there born. The seeds of patriots and heroes were then and there sown. Every man of an immense, crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 792 pages
...American independence was then and there born. The seeds of patriots and heroes were then and there sown. Every man of an immense, crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I d!d, ready to take np arms against writs of assistance. Then and there uta» the fast scene of the... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...American Independence was then and there born. The seeds of patriots and heroes were then and there sown. Every man of an immense, crowded audience, appeared to me to go away ftg I did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 542 pages
...futurity, and a torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away everything before him Every man of a crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance. . . . I have no scruple in making a confession, with all the simplicity of Jean Jacques Rousseau, that... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 686 pages
...then and there sown, to defend the vigorous youth, the non sine Dvia animosus infans. Every man of a crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against writs of assistance." Adams also remembered the sentiment of the occasion, " a moral spectacle more affecting to me than... | |
 | William Vincent Wells - History - 1865 - 554 pages
...hours, and was remembered by John Adams as " a flame of fire." " The child Independence," he says, " was then and there born. Every man of an immense crowded...appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance." The speech of Otis spurred the people of Boston to the first... | |
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Every man of an immense, crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up 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... 
