Boston, the Place and the PeopleMacmillan, 1903 - 397 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 85 - Every man of a crowded audience appeared to me to go away, as I did, ready to take arms against the 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
الصفحة 85 - of fire. With a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eye into futurity, and a torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away everything before him.
الصفحة 94 - Sir, I trust I have long since made my peace with the King of kings. No personal consideration shall induce me to abandon the righteous cause of my country. Tell Governor Gage it is the advice of Samuel Adams to him, no longer to insult the feelings of an exasperated people.
الصفحة 281 - Auld Lang Syne":— "We cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free !
الصفحة 85 - 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.
الصفحة 20 - to the world, in the name of our Colony, that all Familists, Antinomians, Anabaptists, and other enthusiasts, shall have free Liberty to keep away from us, and such as will come to be gone as fast as they can, the sooner the better.
الصفحة 66 - The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
الصفحة 238 - to free thought and free speech and free deeds than any other city of live men or dead men, — I don't care how broad their streets are, nor how high their steeples ! " The sense of humor which gave this character of " Little Boston " its full measure of eccentricity was the sense which generally saved Dr. Holmes
الصفحة 237 - His thoughts and words could have been put on paper only by one who was saturated with the local spirit and traditions. It is good to hear the crooked little man glorying in his birthplace — "full of crooked little streets ; but I tell you Boston has opened, and kept open, more turnpikes that lead
الصفحة 74 - Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finish'd so admirably, that I empty'd my pocket wholly into the