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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... "
The Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal: Containing Topographical and ... - Page 236
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Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867

Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 748 pages
...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...
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Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 624 pages
...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...
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Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 672 pages
...defend the vigorous youth, were then and there sown. Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take Arms against...the first scene of the first act of opposition to tie arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was bora." Tudor's Life...
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Documents of the City of Boston, Volume 2

Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1869 - 1182 pages
...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...
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Fanaticism: A Sermon Delivered Before the Executive and Legislative ...

Charles E. Grinnell - 1871 - 404 pages
...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...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 10

Charles Sumner - 1874 - 580 pages
...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,...
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The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in ...

John Dudley Philbrick - 1875 - 584 pages
...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,...
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The Franklin Sixth Reader and Speaker: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and ...

George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 pages
...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...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 10

Charles Sumner - 1876 - 578 pages
...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,...
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CELEBRATION BY THE INHABITANTS OF WORCESTER, MASS., OF THE CENTENNIAL ...

1876 - 150 pages
...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....
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