 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1885 - 996 pages
...Fourth of July have been justified to the very letter: " It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations...the continent to the other, from this time forward forever." The old patriot does not spc.ik of the oration which for so many years was the great event... | |
 | Literature - 1883 - 1004 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 for evermore. It ought also to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to... | |
 | Everett H. Emerson - American literature - 1977 - 328 pages
...of deliverance," one warranting not only "solemn acts to God Almighty" but "pomp and parade, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations...the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore." Lest Abigail think him lost in transports of enthusiasm, Adams assured her that he knew... | |
 | David I. Kertzer - Political Science - 1988 - 264 pages
...anniversary festival.” He proclaimed: “It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parades, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations,...from one end of the continent to the other, from this day forward, forever more.” 31 Given Adams's views on the importance of political ritual, his later... | |
 | Morris J. Vogel - Architecture - 1991 - 274 pages
...Independence, John Adams hoped that future generations would commemorate the event "with pomp and parade," with "games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations...the continent to the other from this time forward forevermore." Other rituals and icons took their place alongside Fourth of July celebrations. Among... | |
 | David E. Nye - Technology & Engineering - 1996 - 388 pages
...America's independence. He felt that the event "ought to be solemnized with pomp and parades, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations,...from one end of the continent to the other, from this day forward, forever more." 61 These were in fact the chief elements of the republican ceremony in... | |
 | Joseph Bernardin - 2000 - 712 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! Thus it has been that for 211 years we have been celebrating Independence Day with the... | |
 | Genealogy - 1904 - 1076 pages
...generations "as a day of deliverance by acts of devotion to God Almighty, with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations...the Continent to the other ; from this time forward forever more." His wildest dreams could not have depicted the condition that exists to-day. The Fourth... | |
 | John Slade - United States - 2002 - 740 pages
...solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires, and Illuminations...the Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. " We have no record from Samuel Adams. Perhaps the fifty-fouryear-old patriot, who for... | |
 | Forrest Church - History - 2003 - 196 pages
...American Independence would be celebrated as a "day of deliverance" with "pomp and parades, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations...the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore." He was right. The Fourth of July became an American "holy day" almost immediately, with... | |
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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,... 
