The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Volume 4Bancroft, 1839 - United States |
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Page 24 - On the fourth of July, 1776, He pledged his Life, Fortune, and Sacred Honor To the INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTRY. On the third of September, 1783, He affixed his Seal to the definitive Treaty with Great Britain, Which acknowledged that Independence, And consummated the redemption of his pledge. On the fourth of July, 1826, He was summoned To the Independence of Immortality, And to the JUDGMENT OF HIS GOD.
Page 4 - I do hereby in his majesty's name, offer and promise his most gracious pardon, to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
Page 7 - ... there is but a mark between these two, as fine almost as a hair, for a comforter to take aim at...
Page 9 - MA.Y IT PLEASE YOUR HONORS, AND YOU, GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY: I am for the prisoners at the bar, and shall apologize for it only in the words of the Marquis Beccaria: "If I can but be the instrument of preserving one life, his blessings and tears of transport shall be a sufficient consolation to me for the contempt of all mankind.
Page 3 - Unfathom'd and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence — and upon thine altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Page 3 - Clymsr were sent in this character, and instructed "to make such representation to the several states southward of Philadelphia as were best adapted to their respective circumstances and the present situation of public affairs, and as might induce them to carry the requisitions of congress into effect with the greatest dispatch.
Page 2 - OF KINGS. No personal consideration shall induce me to abandon the righteous cause of my country. Tell governor Gage, IT is THE ADVICE OF SAMUEL ADAMS TO HIM, DO longer tO insult the feelings of an exasperated people.
Page 4 - The law, sir, has been my study from my infancy, and my only profession. I have gone' through the circle of office, in the legislative, executive, and judicial, departments of government; and from all my study, observation, and experience, I must declare, that from a full examination and due consideration of this system, it appears to me the best the world has yet seen.
Page 2 - This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States ; and I have just given to England a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride.