 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pagina’s
...Speech on his Trial and Conciction for High Treason, September, 1803. DANIEL WEBSTER. 1782-1852. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.* Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. Independence now and Independence forever.f Rid. When... | |
 | Blade - 1865 - 268 pagina’s
...John Adams, who, contemplating the Declaration of Independence of the United States, said, " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart for this vote." The power and determination here shown have been seen in not a few young men, in all... | |
 | William Fewsmith, Edgar Arthur Singer - 1866 - 240 pagina’s
...language, and written language." " Mr. Webster supposes John Adams to hare spoken these words: ' Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.' " In introducing a direct quotation of considerable length, the expressions as follows, etc., are often... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pagina’s
...take the place of the rising, above directed. EXERCISE. The numbers refer to the rules. 1. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to thli vote, L Was it a walling bird of the gloom, Which shrieks on the booseof woe all night; Or a shivering... | |
 | George Bemis - 1866 - 304 pagina’s
...puts the speech in character, as he affixed his name to the Declaration of Independence, " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart for this vote," cannot have been the Adams who, according to General Banks, was yielding up his country's... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pagina’s
...on that subject. He then supposes Mr. Adams to have replied, in the following language. 1. SINK or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand...in the beginning, we aimed not at independence. But there is a divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms; and blinded... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pagina’s
...D. Webster. OX. SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS IN FAVOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. OINK 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... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - 1878 - 268 pagina’s
...XIII. — When words are arranged in pairs, each couplet should be set off by commas. Ex. — Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. Rule XIV. — Each term of a series of words in the same construction, should be set off by commas.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pagina’s
...our country, right or wrong. Toast given at Norfolk. April, 1816. DANIEL WEBSTER. 1782-1852. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.1 Eulogy on Aiiants and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. Independence now and Independence forever.5 IbidWhen... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pagina’s
...SUPPORT OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. (DANIEL WEBSTER.) Sink or swim, | live or die, | survive or perish, I 1 give my hand, and my heart, to this vote. | It is true, indeed, I that in the beginning, we aimed not at Independence. | But there's a Divinity which shapes our ends.... | |
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. 
