James Otis, the Pre-revolutionist: A Brief Interpretation of the Life and Work of a PatriotUniversity Association, 1898 - 112 halaman |
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... early part of the present century a row of great elms , known as the Paddock elms , stood in what is now the sidewalk on the west side of Tremont Street skirting the Granary Burying Ground . These trees were cut away and the first ...
... early part of the present century a row of great elms , known as the Paddock elms , stood in what is now the sidewalk on the west side of Tremont Street skirting the Granary Burying Ground . These trees were cut away and the first ...
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... early dawn of the American Revolution . The pre - revolutionists are the Titans of human his- tory ; the revolutionists proper are only heroes ; and the post - revolutionists are too frequently dwarfs and weak- lings . This signifies ...
... early dawn of the American Revolution . The pre - revolutionists are the Titans of human his- tory ; the revolutionists proper are only heroes ; and the post - revolutionists are too frequently dwarfs and weak- lings . This signifies ...
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... early American prophets whose deeds and outcry , if reduced to hexameters , would be not the Iliad , not the Jerusalem Delivered , but the Epic of Human Liberty . The greatest of these , our protagonists of freedom , was Benjamin ...
... early American prophets whose deeds and outcry , if reduced to hexameters , would be not the Iliad , not the Jerusalem Delivered , but the Epic of Human Liberty . The greatest of these , our protagonists of freedom , was Benjamin ...
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... early day when the settlements in New England were still infrequent and weak . The Otis family was among the first to set- tle at the town of Hingham . Nor was it long until the name appeared in the public records , indicating official ...
... early day when the settlements in New England were still infrequent and weak . The Otis family was among the first to set- tle at the town of Hingham . Nor was it long until the name appeared in the public records , indicating official ...
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... Early and short clerkships , and a premature rushing into practice , without a competent knowledge in the theory of law , have blasted the hopes , and ruined the expectations , formed by the parents of most of the students in the ...
... Early and short clerkships , and a premature rushing into practice , without a competent knowledge in the theory of law , have blasted the hopes , and ruined the expectations , formed by the parents of most of the students in the ...
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Halaman 49 - oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villany on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
Halaman 52 - the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book;" since they placed "the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer.
Halaman 49 - It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.
Halaman 107 - Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.
Halaman 85 - Approach : but awful ! lo ! the /Egerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St. John* sat and thought ; Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole, And the bright flame was shot through Marchmont's soul. Let such, such only, tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor...
Halaman 49 - I must, therefore, beg your honors' patience and attention to the whole range of an argument, that may, perhaps, appear uncommon in many things, as well as to points of learning that are more remote and unusual: that the whole tendency of my design may the more easily be perceived, the conclusions better descend, and the force of them be better felt.
Halaman 47 - 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 child Independence was born.
Halaman 101 - Charlestown, who raised his piece at the same moment with a British soldier, each exclaiming, "You are a dead man!" The Briton dropped, shot through the heart. James Hayward fell mortally wounded.
Halaman 91 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might — Guid faith, he mauna fa' that ! For a
Halaman 54 - It shall be lawful for any person or persons authorized," etc. What a scene does this open! Every man, prompted by revenge, ill humor, or wantonness to inspect the inside of his neighbor's house, may get a writ of assistance. Others will ask it from self-defense; one arbitrary exertion will provoke another, until society be involved in tumult and in blood.