 | Georg Weber - 1860 - 634 pages
...John Adams, who was present at its delivery, says, " Every man of an immense crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against...the child Independence was born. In fifteen years, that is, in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free." The court postponed judgment on... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 556 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 child Independence was born. In fifteen years — that is, in 1776 — he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free." Dr. Chauncy, the preacher,... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 560 pages
...there sown. Every man of an immense crowded andience appeared to mo to go away, as I did, ready to t&ke arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was...the child Independence was born. In fifteen years — that is, in 1776 — he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free." Or. Chauncy, the preacher,... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 562 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...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 child Independence... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 pages
...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 child INDEPENDENCE was born. In fifteen years, i. «. in 1776, he grow up to manhood, and declared himself free." In opening this case, Otis said,... | |
 | James Murray Robbins - 1862 - 86 pages
...Writs of Assistance, against the application of which Otis and Thatcher were engaged in 1761, says, "Then and there was the first scene of the first act...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." Thatcher died of consumption, in 1765, at the early age of 45 years. SAMUEL SWIFT, second son of Col.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 pages
...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... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 pages
...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... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1864 - 478 pages
...the Colonies. James Otis's great speech in the famous Cause of the Writs of Assistance in 1761 — the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain — declared the rights of man inherent and inalienable. In that speech the poor negroes were not forgotten.... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 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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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... 
