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... elected to the Legislature , and in a few years more , when the Boston Tea - party had roused the people into action against the mother country , John Adams was one of the five Massachusetts mem- bers in the first Congress . He was as ...
... elected to the Legislature , and in a few years more , when the Boston Tea - party had roused the people into action against the mother country , John Adams was one of the five Massachusetts mem- bers in the first Congress . He was as ...
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... elected at first , these two men , who had once been warm friends , but were now enemies through some differ- ences of views , stood together once more as leaders of the people . But in the old JOHN ADAMS . Declaration days they were ...
... elected at first , these two men , who had once been warm friends , but were now enemies through some differ- ences of views , stood together once more as leaders of the people . But in the old JOHN ADAMS . Declaration days they were ...
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... elected in his place . Mr. Adams felt very badly , and did not even wait to see the new President take the chair . He suddenly fell from a high place to almost nothing in the eyes of the people , and went quietly out of public life to ...
... elected in his place . Mr. Adams felt very badly , and did not even wait to see the new President take the chair . He suddenly fell from a high place to almost nothing in the eyes of the people , and went quietly out of public life to ...
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... elected to the office of Governor year after year , until he was seventy - five years old and no longer able to carry its cares . When Mr. Adams was an old man , his son died and left him enough to live on . Before that he was always ...
... elected to the office of Governor year after year , until he was seventy - five years old and no longer able to carry its cares . When Mr. Adams was an old man , his son died and left him enough to live on . Before that he was always ...
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... elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses , where , in his first session , he made the great speech which " set the ball of the Revolution rolling . " Yet , all this was but a foreshadowing of what he was to do . Now that he had once ...
... elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses , where , in his first session , he made the great speech which " set the ball of the Revolution rolling . " Yet , all this was but a foreshadowing of what he was to do . Now that he had once ...
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Page 104 - There, by his courage, his justice, his even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time.
Page 346 - America ; in the purchase and distribution of books tending to promote piety and virtue, and the truth of Christianity, and it is his wish that ' The Power of Religion on the Mind, in Retirement, Affliction, and at the Approach of Death...
Page 389 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 116 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Page 445 - Our only guide shall be good, sound, practical common sense, applicable to the business and bosoms of men engaged in every-day life. We shall support no party — be the organ of no faction or coterie, and care nothing for any election or any candidate from president down to a constable. We shall endeavor to record facts on every public and proper subject, stripped of verbiage and coloring, with comments when suitable, just, independent, fearless, and good-tempered.
Page 65 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 382 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 68 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable. And let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
Page 46 - American affairs as the gentleman alluded to, and so injuriously reflected on; one, he was pleased to say, whom all Europe held in high estimation for his knowledge and wisdom, and ranked with our Boyles and Newtons; who was an honor, not to the English nation only, but to human nature...
Page 384 - a fine and continuous story, of which the writer and the nation celebrated by him have equal reason to be proud; a narrative which will remain a prominent ornament of American genius, while it has permanently enriched English literature on this as well as on the other side of the Atlantic.