John Adams, the Statesman of the American Revolution: An Address Before the Webster Historical Society, at Its Annual Meeting in Boston, Jan. 18, 1884Society, 1884 - 85 ページ |
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... independence and to effect a loan , he shocked the old diplomatists by his memorial to their High Mightinesses and the Prince of Orange . This was issued against the advice , and even remonstrance , of our French allies . But it led to ...
... independence and to effect a loan , he shocked the old diplomatists by his memorial to their High Mightinesses and the Prince of Orange . This was issued against the advice , and even remonstrance , of our French allies . But it led to ...
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... independence and nationality demanded an orator , not brilliant declaimers like Henry , Lee and Rutledge , but one who , with capacity for affairs , could bring powerful and intrepid advocacy into council and pas- sionate appeals to ...
... independence and nationality demanded an orator , not brilliant declaimers like Henry , Lee and Rutledge , but one who , with capacity for affairs , could bring powerful and intrepid advocacy into council and pas- sionate appeals to ...
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... constitutional ground he first led his own colony , and finally the representatives of the thirteen colonies in Congress assembled , in a declaration of their rights in 1774 , and of their independence in 1776. This was his greatest 15.
... constitutional ground he first led his own colony , and finally the representatives of the thirteen colonies in Congress assembled , in a declaration of their rights in 1774 , and of their independence in 1776. This was his greatest 15.
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... independence in 1776. This was his greatest public service ; and it was the greatest feat of statesmanship during the revolutionary period . He had able co - adjutors , but to him , more than to any other , the honor is due . This ...
... independence in 1776. This was his greatest public service ; and it was the greatest feat of statesmanship during the revolutionary period . He had able co - adjutors , but to him , more than to any other , the honor is due . This ...
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... independence ? The only true answer must be , the first emigrants . When we say that Otis . Adams . Mayhew , Henry , Lee , Jefferson , & c . , were authors of independence , we ought to say they were only awakeners and revivers of the ...
... independence ? The only true answer must be , the first emigrants . When we say that Otis . Adams . Mayhew , Henry , Lee , Jefferson , & c . , were authors of independence , we ought to say they were only awakeners and revivers of the ...
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80 ページ - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects, in America,...
80 ページ - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is, a right in the People to participate in their legislative council...
79 ページ - To these grievous acts and measures Americans cannot submit; but in hopes their fellow subjects in Great Britain will, on a revision of them, restore us to that state in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have, for the present, only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures.
82 ページ - We are between hawk and buzzard. We ought to have had in our hands a month ago the whole legislative, executive and judicial of the whole continent...
36 ページ - If the Church of England had been the established and general religion in all the northern colonies as it has been among us here, and uninterrupted tranquility had prevailed throughout the continent, it is clear to me that slavery and subjection might and would have been gradually insinuated among us.
5 ページ - He recalled a couplet that had been inscribed or rather drilled, into a rock on the shore of Monument Bay in our old colony of Plymouth: " 'The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends.
60 ページ - Adams, I believe, has the most thorough understanding of liberty and her resources in the temper and character of the people, though not in the law and Constitution; as well as the most habitual, radical love of it of any of them, as well as the most correct, genteel, and artful pen.
41 ページ - no aid, tax, tallage, assessment, custom, loan, benevolence, or imposition whatsoever, shall be laid, assessed, imposed, or levied on any of their majesties' subjects, or their estates, on any color or pretence whatsoever, but by the act and consent of the governor, council, and representatives of the people assembled in general court.
21 ページ - Rome, with indifference, who will believe that the apprehension of Episcopacy contributed fifty years ago, as much as any other cause, to arouse the attention, not only of the inquiring mind, but of the common people, and urge them to close thinking on the constitutional authority of parliament over the colonies?
25 ページ - We hope in God such an establishment will never take place in America ; and we desire you would strenuously oppose it. The revenue raised in America, for aught we can tell, may be as constitutionally applied towards the support of prelacy as of soldiers and pensioners...