 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - 1904 - 488 páginas
...uniform in opposition to all 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." At a town meeting held immediately after the announcement of the passage of the Stamp Act he presented... | |
 | 1906 - 525 páginas
...crisis he uttered the famous words: '4The 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." He was a prominent figure in congress and advocated the movement for independence when a majority of... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 488 páginas
...constant and uniform in opposition to her measures: the die is now cast; I have passed the Rubicon; to swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination." Daniel Webster afterward made use of these words in his magnificent eulogy of Adams in his great Boston... | |
 | Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1909 - 184 páginas
...INDEX TO BOOKS IN GRADED LIST Adams, Samuel, 1733-18O3, John, 1735-1826, and John Quincy, 1767-1848. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, was my unalterable determination. — John Adams. Brooks. The Adams family. In Century book of famous... | |
 | Allen French - 1911 - 492 páginas
...pointing out the irresistible power of Great Britain. But Adams was ready with his answer. "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country is my unalterable determination." 1 And so went another hope of the Tories. The summer of 1774 wore along, with no improvement in the... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1912 - 618 páginas
...who signed it unanimously. In 1774 John Adams had written to his friend Sewall, — "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination." And now, July 2, 1776, he was in as great peril as General Washington himself. They were all to live... | |
 | Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards - 1917 - 312 páginas
...constant and uniform in opposition to her measures ; the die is now cast ; I have passed the Rubicon ; to swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination.'* Meantime, on June 1st, the blockade of Boston Harbor was proclaimed, and the ruin and starvation of... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1919 - 454 páginas
...Adams replied with the memorable words: " 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." On the 3d of July, 1776, he wrote a letter to his wife which had in it this celebrated passage: " Yesterday... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...is to be subdued by patience. VERGIIJ — JEneid. V. 710. 21 PATRIOTISM The die was now cast; I had patra. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 20. 6 I'll give thrice so much land To any well-deservi was my unalterable determination. JOHN ADAMS— Works. Vol. IV. P. 8. In a conversation with Jonathan... | |
 | Sir Hector Livingston Duff - 1924 - 148 páginas
...constant and uniform in opposition to all her measures ; that the die was now cast ; I had crossed the Rubicon ; swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.' The conversation was protracted, but this was the substance of the... | |
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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. 
