 | Georg Weber - 1860 - 634 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 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 560 síður
...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 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... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 556 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 1776 — he grew up to manhood, and declared... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 562 síður
...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 child Independence was born. In fifteen years — that is, in 1776 — he grew up to manhood, and deciared... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 782 síður
...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...claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child INDEPENDENCE was born. In fifteen years, ie in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free."... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 síður
...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 the first act...claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child INDEPENDENCE was born. In fifteen years, i. «. in 1776, he grow up to manhood, and declared himself... | |
 | James Murray Robbins - 1862 - 86 síður
...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...claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." Thatcher died of consumption, in 1765, at the early age of 45 years. SAMUEL... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 síður
...leaves of the.se statutes, or any section of them, without pronouncing a hearty curse upon them. . . . 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, namely, in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1864 - 478 síður
...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 síður
...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... 
