| John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 474 páginas
...a Declaration six months ago. But the day is past. The second l day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt...succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. 1 The practice baa been to celebrate the 4th of July, the day upon which the form of the Declaration... | |
| John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 498 páginas
...a Declaration six months ago. But the day is past. The second l day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt...succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. 1 The practice bag been to celebrate tbe 4th of July, the day upon which the form of tbe Declaration... | |
| George Lowell Austin - 1875 - 746 páginas
...history of America ; to be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival, commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore." ' On the evening of... | |
| 1875 - 398 páginas
...the history of America; to be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival, commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forever more." On the evening of... | |
| Arthur Gilman - 1875 - 140 páginas
...history of America ; to be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival, commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore. I am well aware of... | |
| Bill Lawrence - 1995 - 286 páginas
...it would be. John Adams wrote his wife: “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable in the history of America. I am apt to believe that...generations as the great anniversary festival.” But it was not to be: Americans would celebrate not the act of independence, but the day that act was... | |
| William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 páginas
...declaring the importance of that day: The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that...God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this... | |
| John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 páginas
...of ravishing light and glory. . . . The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that...God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this... | |
| Paul F. Boller - 1996 - 476 páginas
...momentous vote. “The second day of July 1776,” he said, “will be the most memorable epocha [sic] in the history of America. I am apt to believe that...as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, and parade, with shows, games, sports, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...the Rights of Women (1792). Festivals 1 The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that...God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this... | |
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