 | 1870 - 314 pagina’s
...of " Expulsive Orotund," I.— "Declamatory" Style. FKOM WEBSTER'S SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS. " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote ! " " Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judg ment approves this measure ; and my whole... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1871 - 410 pagina’s
...them. Contrasted slides may also sometimes be used for greater variety or melody. EXAMPLE. 1. " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote." " But, whatever may be 6ur fate, be assured, be assured that this declaration... | |
 | United States. Adjutant-General's Office - 1924 - 52 pagina’s
...we know his character. He would commence with his accustomed directness and earnestness. " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or (perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. * * * " Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly,... | |
 | Frank Ellsworth Spaulding, Catherine Turner Bryce, Ernest R. Caverly - 1926 - 488 pagina’s
...before cried, " Back! " And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array. — MACAULAY (/) Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. — From Supposed Speech of John Adams in favor of the Declaration of Independence 2. Arrange the antonyms... | |
 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 pagina’s
...But there can be little doubt that Webster followed the main lines of John Adams's speech.) SINK or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand...in the beginning we aimed not at independence. But there 'sa Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms; and, blinded... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Severina Elaine Nelson - 1927 - 408 pagina’s
...condition, rank, and situation, in the world. EDMUND BURKE: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote! Sir, before God l believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is... | |
 | 1927 - 724 pagina’s
...Independence. In stating his reasons before Congress, Mr. Adams replies in the following words : — "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. In the beginning, we aimed not at independence. But there is a 'Divinity which shapes our ends'." Then... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 pagina’s
...first, the downward slide on the latter, whether it be a ques/ \ / tion or an assertion, thus: "Sink or swim, live or \ / \ die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart / \ to this motion." — "Did he ride or walk?" (2) But if one of the members of an antithesis is negative, the... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - 1912 - 462 pagina’s
...in the following prose passages? 1. They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them. 2. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. — WEBSTER. 3. It was very kind of you to remind me of my humiliation ! X. SPELLING, CAPITALIZATION,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1946 - 240 pagina’s
...most famous orators and statesmen, Daniel Webster, let me at once emphatically declare that "sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart" to Senate bill No. 1875, the object of which is to exterminate cancer — mankind's most aggressive, merciless,... | |
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. 
