 | Joseph Emerson - 1846 - 200 síður
...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...claims of Great Britain — then and there, the child Independence was born. In fifteen years, ie in 1T76, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free.... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 536 síður
...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...claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born. In fifteen years, that is, in 1770, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 492 síður
...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...to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there'the child Independence was born. In fifte'en years, that is, in 1776, he grew up to manhood,... | |
 | Salma Hale - 1848 - 392 síður
...to take arms against writs of assistance. The seeds of patriots and heroes were then and there sown. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain."—The court declined to issue the writ. Among the acts of trade was one, passed at the solicitation... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1384 síður
...against writs of assistance. " Then and there," says John Adams, who was present, " was the first scene of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there American Independence was born." Another ministerial measure was to instruct the provincial governors... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 síður
...erowded 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...claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child, Independence, was born. In fifteen years, that is, in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - 1851 - 392 síður
...to the effects of their arguments on this occasion, the late President John Adams asserted, that " then and there was the first scene of the first act...claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born. In fifteen years, ie 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free."... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1919 - 800 síður
...Adams most graphically described this trial which he attended. In the course of his letter he said : "Then and there was the first scene of the first act...Then and there the child of Independence was born." These events which we have but given in outline occurred within the memory of the men who formulated... | |
 | 1852 - 880 síður
...crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did. ready to take up arms against Wrilt uf Atr*tance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claim? of Great Britain. Then and there the child, Independence, was born. In fifteen years, that is,... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1852 - 560 síður
...went away ready to take " wce**' arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain; then and there American independence was born." The writs were, however, under certain restrictions, granted ; but... | |
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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... 
