 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations,...the continent to the other, from this time forward forever. You will think me transported with enthusiasm ; but I am not. I am well aware of the toil,... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 pages
...solemn acta of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations,...end of the continent to the other, from this time forth, for evermore."— JOHN ADAMS. NE HUNDRED YEARS ago, namely, on the Fourth of July, 1776, there... | |
 | Committee on National Centennial Commemoration - 1876 - 108 pages
...the great anniversary festival, be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the Continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore." Everything relating to this great resolution is interesting to all Americans, and I exhibit... | |
 | 1876 - 118 pages
...the great anniversary festival, be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the Continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore." Everything relating to this great resolution is interesting to all Americans, and I exhibit-... | |
 | Committee on National Centennial Commemoration - 1876 - 110 pages
...anniversary festival, be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bon^ fires, and illuminations, from one end of the Continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore." Everything relating to this great resolution is interesting to all Americans, and I exhibit... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Fourth of July orations - 1876 - 56 pages
...more than when John Adams wrote to his wife it would be so for ever, it is an occasion for "shows, games, sports; guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other." Ovations, rather than orations, are the order of such a day as this. Emotions like those... | |
 | American literature - 1876 - 1004 pages
...deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. • It ought to be solemnized with pomps, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent te the other, from this forward forever. You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not.... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 650 pages
...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 for evermore. " You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 652 pages
...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 for evermore. " You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 362 pages
...solemn acts of devotion .to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations,...the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore." Fifty years after, this untiring patriot, who had served his country as minister plenipotentiary... | |
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I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games,... 
