 | 1876 - 150 pagina’s
...have grown with years, " Otis was a flame of fire. American independence was then and there born. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of...opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain." Treating the drama of which he speaks as the united opposition of the colonies, the remark is just.... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1882 - 264 pagina’s
...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...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." • The immediate result was a modification of the form of the writs; but the greater consequence was... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1882 - 92 pagina’s
...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...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." The immediate result was a modification of the form of the writs; but the greater consequence was the... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1882 - 260 pagina’s
...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...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." The immediate result was a modification of the form of the writs; but the greater consequence was the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 986 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1883 - 258 pagina’s
...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...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." The immediate result was a modification of the form of the writs; but the greater consequence was the... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1883 - 260 pagina’s
...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...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." The immediate result was a modification of the form of the writs; but the greater consequence was the... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1884 - 358 pagina’s
...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...Britain. Then] and there the child Independence was bornj In fifteen years, ie, in 1776, he grew up to manhood and declared himself free." Such impassioned... | |
 | 1907 - 870 pagina’s
...became, before long, a slogan in the mouths of the people. "'Then and there,' writes President Adams, 'was the first scene of the first act of opposition...arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there, the first child of Independence was born.' It was upon a trial of the question of 'Writs of Assistance,'... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1885 - 638 pagina’s
...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...Britain. Then and there the child Independence was born." John Adams also took notes of the speech of Otis, which have been preserved. It lasted between four... | |
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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... 
