 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 666 sivua
...by courting popularity.' We were all suspected of having independence in view. 'Nov.',' said they, 'you must not utter the word independence, nor give...Middle and Southern States, as the Stamp Act itself. No man dares to speak of it. Moreover, you are the representatives of the suffering State. Boston and... | |
 | 1853 - 666 sivua
...suspected of having independence in view. 'Now,' said they, 'you must not utter the word independence, Dor give the least hint or insinuation of the idea, either...Middle and Southern States, as the Stamp Act itself. No man dares to speak of it. Moreover, you are the repieseutatives of the suffering State. Boston and... | |
 | Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 sivua
.... . . We were all suspected of having independence in view. "Now," said they, "you must not utt«r the word independence, nor give the least hint or insinuation of the idea, H 98 ADAMS'S ACCOUNT OF THE DRAWING UP either in congress or any private conversation. If you do, you... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 sivua
...than by courting popularity." * We were all suspected of having independence in view. Now, said they, you must not utter the word independence, nor give...Middle and Southern States, as the Stamp Act itself. No man dares to speak of it. Moreover, you are the representatives of the suffering State. Boston and... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 sivua
...Massachusetts delegation, — "We were all suspected of having independence in view. 'No":,' said they, 'you must not utter the word "independence," nor give...or insinuation of the idea, either in Congress or in private conversation : if you do, we are undone.' " It was soon rumored throughout Philadelphia... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1879 - 758 sivua
...active Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia were unprepared for, and they said to Adnms on his arrival, " You must not utter the word independence, nor give...or insinuation of the idea, either in Congress or in any private conversation ; if you do, you are undone, for the idea is as unpopular in Pennsylvania,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 sivua
...Philadelphia, the leading conspirators in that town said to him, ' You must not utter the word independence or give the least hint or insinuation of the idea either...Middle and Southern States as the Stamp Act itself.' 5 Adams tells how, when a letter which he had written in 1775 advocating independence was intercepted... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1884 - 358 sivua
...but , if they should utter the word they would be I " undone," for independence was as "unpopuilar in Pennsylvania and in all the middle and [southern states as the stamp act itself." All this could hardly have been gratifying, even if it were wholesome. But the quartette took it wonderfully... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1885 - 478 sivua
...consequence than by courting popularity." We were all suspected^ of wishing mdependenoe. Now, said they, you must not utter the word independence, nor give...any private conversation ; if you do, you are undone ; ^fpr independence- .is"as_ unpopular in all th_e JVIiddle and South as the Stamp Act itself. No man... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 sivua
...than by courting popularity.' We were all suspected of having independence in view. Now, said they, you must not utter the word independence, nor give...Middle and Southern States, as the 'Stamp Act' itself. No man dares to speak of it. Moreover, you are the representatives of the suffering State. Boston and... | |
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Now, said they, you must not utter the word independence, nor give the least hint or insinuation of the idea, either in Congress or any private conversation ; if you do, you are undone ; for the idea of independence is as unpopular in Pennsylvania, and... 
