 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 trang
...had been constant and uniform in opposition to all her measures; that the die was now cast ; 1 had passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, was nay unalterable determination/' The conversation was protracted into length, but this was the substance... | |
 | 1826 - 438 trang
...knew I had been constant and uniform in opposition to her measures ; 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." With such feelings and principles he took his seat in Congress,... | |
 | William Cranch - 1827 - 140 trang
...determines me on mine. You know that I have been constant and uniform in opposition to all her measures. The die is now cast; I have passed the Rubicon ; swim...with my country, is my unalterable determination." The conversation was terminated by Mr. Adams saying to his friend, " I see we must part ; and with... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 650 trang
...knew I had been constant and uniform in opposition to her measures ; 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." This was the last meeting of the two friends. The conversation was... | |
 | 1827 - 540 trang
...uniform in opposition to her designs. 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." He accordingly took his seat: and with what activity and effect he discharged its duties, the journals... | |
 | William Allen - 1832 - 816 trang
...morning walk on " the great hill," from accepting this appointment, he said; " the die is now cast: 1 have passed the Rubicon : swim or sink, live or die,...committee, which drew up the statement of the rights ol the colonies, and on that, which prepare» the address to the king. At this perioc the members of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 trang
...attorney-general for Massachusetts in 1774: — 'The die is now cast. I have passed the Rubicon. To sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination.' The passage would be materially improved by leaving out the words ' survive or perish ;' but a leaning... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1841 - 462 trang
...Adams, at that time and under those circumstances, uttered the well known exclamation, "sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, with my country is my unalterable resolution." He terminated the deeply interesting conversation by saying; " I see we 36 must part,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 trang
...to his dissuasives, that the patriot of lion heart and lofty soul uttered the memorable words, — " The die is now cast ; I have passed the Rubicon ;...my country, is my unalterable determination." Thus they parted, to meet no more till the " declaration " had been made good, and Adams had " a country... | |
 | William Henry Seward, John Mather Austin - 1849 - 424 trang
...political ideas he received were such as John Adams then uttered — " We must fight." " Sink or swim — live or die — survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination." A mother fervently pious, and eminent in intellectual gifts, directed with more than maternal assiduity... | |
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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. 
