| John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 páginas
...had but just become known and gained a small degree of reputation, when this execrable project was set on foot for my ruin as well as that of America in general, and of Great Britain. 19. Thursday. A fair morning, after a severe storm of three days and four nights ; a vast quantity... | |
| James Parton - 1868 - 694 páginas
...had but just become known and gained a small degree of reputation, when this execrable project was set on foot for my ruin, as well as that of America in general, aud of Great Britain!" But, while he was indulging in these gloomy apprehensions, he was astonished... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1871 - 602 páginas
...become known, and gained a small degree of reputation, when this execrable project (the Stamp Act) was set on foot for my ruin, as well as that of America in general, and of Great Britain.' December 18, 1765.f The very next day he finds that Boston has chosen him for her Attorney, to appear... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1871 - 256 páginas
...become known, and gained a small degree of reputation, when this execrable project (the Stamp Act) was set on foot for my ruin, as well as that of America in general, and of Great Britain.' December 18, 1765.f The very next day he finds that Boston has chosen him for her Attorney, to appear... | |
| Charles Francis Adams - 1871 - 508 páginas
...and had just become known, and gained a small degree of reputation, when this execrable project was set on foot for my ruin, as well as that of America in general, and of Great Britain." On the next day, after receiving the notification from the town-clerk of Boston, his mind recurred... | |
| James Parton - 1880 - 688 páginas
...had but just become known and gained a small degree of reputation, when this execrable project was set on foot for my ruin, as well as that of America in general, and of Great Britain!" But, while he was indulging in these gloomy apprehensions, he was astonished to receive a letter from Boston,... | |
| Justin Winsor - 1881 - 808 páginas
...to litigation. The people, finding they could have only stamped writs, would have none at all. With that exquisite lack of perspective which he never...Esquires, be " applied to as counsel to appear before His Excellency the Governor in council, in support of their memorial praying that the courts of law... | |
| Justin Winsor - 1881 - 786 páginas
...of perspective which he never failed to manifest whenever his own figure entered into the pictures Mr. Adams abuses the " execrable project," which he...Esquires, be " applied to as counsel to appear before His Excellency the Governor in council, in support of their memorial praying that the courts of law... | |
| James Parton - 1883 - 860 páginas
...just become known and gained a small degree of reputation, when this execrable project was set on fool for my ruin, as well as that of America in general, and of Great Britain!" But, while he was indulging in these gloomy apprehensions, he was astonished to receive a letter from Boston,... | |
| John Torrey Morse - 1884 - 358 páginas
...and had but just become known and gained a small degree of reputation when this execrable project was set on foot for my ruin as well as that of America in general, and of Great Britain." Adams was not alone in feeling the stress of this enforced cessation of all business. On the very day... | |
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