 Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A Resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 2101883Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 432 pages
...Adams's reflections upon the passing of the resolutions declaring the independence of the Colonies. " Yesterday, the greatest question was decided, which...perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A Resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony "that these United Colonies are, and of right... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 pages
...introduce the prophecy as he recorded it, in order to substantiate the position we have assumed. " Yesterday, the greatest question was decided, which...perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony, " that these United Colonies are, and of right... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...straws, atoms, and feathers ? THE FOURTH OF JULY. TROH A LETTER DATED THE THIRD Or .!! I V. Yesterday1 the greatest question was decided which ever was debated...perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed, without one dissenting colony, " that these United Colonies are, and of right... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...straws, atoms, and feathers 1 THE FOURTH OP JULY. FRO* A LETTER DATED THE THIRD OF JULY. Yesterday1 the greatest question was decided which ever was debated...perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed, without one dissenting colony, " that these United Colonies are, and of right... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...straws, atoms, and feathers ? THE FOURTH OF JULY. FROM A LETTER DATED THE THIRD OP JULY. Yesterday1 the greatest question was decided which ever was debated...perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed, without one dissenting colon}', " that these United Colonics are, and of right... | |
 | Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown - 1862 - 600 pages
...after day, until, on the third of July, 1776, he could record the result, writing thus to his wife: " Yesterday the greatest question was decided which...America; and a greater, perhaps, never was, nor will be, among men." Of that series of spoken eloquence all is perished; not one reported sentence has come... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 pages
...writes to his wife, on the third of July, 1776, on the passage of Lee's Resolution of Independence, " the greatest question was decided which ever was debated...in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor wiH be decided among men ;" and again the same day, in another letter to Mrs. Adams, a remarkable prophetic... | |
 | 1867 - 1052 pages
...question * John Adams Works, Vol. I. p. 23. See also Vol. IX. pp. 591. 59«. t Ibid., Vol. I. pp. 34. :3. was decided which ever was debated in America, and...greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men I am surprised at the suddenness as well as greatness of this revolution. Britain has been filled with... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...after day, until, on the third of July, 1776, he could record the result, writing thus to his wife : "Yesterday the greatest question was decided which...; and a greater, perhaps, never was, nor will be, among men." Of that series of spoken eloquence all is perished ; not one reported sentence has come... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 pages
...day, the mind of John Adams heaved like the ocean after a storm. " The greatest question/' he wrote, "was decided which ever was debated in America, and...perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. When I look back to 1761, and run through the series of political events, the chain of causes and effects,... | |
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