 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 sivua
..."Expulsive Orotund." 1 . — " Declamatory " Style. FROM WEBSTER'S SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS. " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote ! " " Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure ; and my whole... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 sivua
...SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS, ON THE ADOPTION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. SINK or swim, live or die, I give my hand and my heart to this vote ! It is true,...in the beginning, we aimed not at independence. But there is a Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 322 sivua
...oration, as having been delivered by him in the Philadelphia Convention, in 1776, commencing, " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote," has been often mistaken for the production of Mr. Adams himself: it follows so inimitably Mr. Adams'... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 sivua
...ADAMS, ETC. SECT. CCLXIV. SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS IN SUP* PORT OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. 1 SINK or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand,...my heart, to this vote. It is true, indeed, that in 2 the beginning, we aimed not at Independence' ; but there's a Divinity which shapes our ends. The... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 sivua
...July, 1826, the anniversary of the occasion which they had done BO much to render memorable. SINK or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand...in the beginning, we aimed not at independence. But there is a Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 762 sivua
...know his character. He would commence with his accustomed directness and earnestness : " ' Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand...in the beginning, we aimed not at independence. But there 'sa divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded... | |
 | 1850 - 216 sivua
...praise. This is the way he would commence, with his accustomed directness and earnestness: "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand...in the beginning we aimed not at independence; 'but there is a Divinity which shapes our ends.' Independence is now within our grasp. We have but to reach... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 sivua
...July, 1S26, the anniversary of the oceasion which they had done BO much to render memorable. SINK or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand...in the beginning, we aimed not at independence. But there is a Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1852 - 702 sivua
...your Congress, " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I am for this declaration. It is true in the beginning we aimed not at independence, but ' there's a divinity which shapes our ends.' " These whole words were present to my mind on the 14th of April, 1849, when I moved the Declaration... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 sivua
...that subject. He then supposes Mr. Adams to have replied, in language like the following. 1. SINE or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand...in the beginning, we aimed not at independence. But there is a divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and blinded... | |
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. 
