 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1874 - 544 páginas
...tiltmemorable words, as they walked on the Great Hill at Portland, " The die is now cast ; I have now passed the Rubicon : swim or sink, live or die, survive...with my country is my unalterable determination." " Jonathan and John" again met in London, — the former a broken-down, disappointed man ; the latter... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...a conversation with Jonathan Scwall, in 1774 says, " I answered, that the die was now cast ; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, was my unalterable determination." — Adams's Worhs, Vol. iv. Live or die, sink or swim. — Pcele,... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1874 - 560 páginas
...memorable words, as they walked on the Great Hill at Portland, " The die is "now cast ; I have now passed the Rubicon : swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish, v.'ith my country is my unalterable determination." " Jonathan and John " again met in London, —... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...a conversation with Jonathan Sewall, in 1774 says, " I answered, that the die was now cast ; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, was my unalterable determination." — Adams's Works, Vol. iv./. S. Live or die, sink or swim. —... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1876 - 476 páginas
...the memorable words, as they walked on the Great Hill at Tortland, " The die is now cast ; I have now passed the Rubicon : swim or sink, live or die, survive...with my country is my unalterable determination." " Jonathan and John " again met in London, — the former a broken-down, disappointed man ; the latter... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 páginas
...never yield one jot or one tittle of my determination to go to that Congress; but come what may, I will swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country. Sewall. My good Adams ; my good Adams ! For the love of heaven, be not so impatuous ! Be not so determined... | |
 | Moses King - 1880 - 160 páginas
...Adams, (frged him to remain with the royalist party, but Adams replied to him: "The die is now cast; I have passed the Rubicon; swim or sink, live or die,...with my country, is my unalterable determination." The house was mobbed in 1774, and Sewall fled to Boston. Baron Riedesel, with the Baroness, was quartered... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 1124 páginas
...uniform in opposition to her measures. The die is now cast. I have passed the Rubicon. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination.' " — SEWARD'S I/if e of John Quincy Adams, p. 26. " I returned, and saw under the sun that the race... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...describing a conversation with Jonathan Scwall, in 1774, says: "I answered, that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, was mv unalterable determination." — Adams's Works, Vol. iv. p. 8. Live or die, sink or swim. —... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 páginas
...constant and uniform in opposition to her measures. The die is now cast ; I have crossed the Rubicon. To swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination.' In this patriotic spirit Adams continued to direct his whole political career; and in 1776 he refused... | |
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The die is now cast; I have passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink — live or die — survive or perish, with my country, is my unalterable determination. 
