 The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance,...  The Works of Washington Irving ... - Page 255by Washington Irving - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Political science - 1816 - 728 pages
...day of DKLIVEHAXCE, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of th« continent to the other, from this time forward, forever. You will think me transported with enthusiasm... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...hundred-fold more than when John Adams wrote to his wife it would be so forever, 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... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forever. You will think me transported with enthusiasm,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 650 pages
...day of 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 to the other, from this time forever ! You will think me transported with enthusiasm,... | |
 | William Cranch - 1827 - 140 pages
...deliverance, by solemn acts of devcsas tion to the Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomps, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations — from one end of the continent to the other — from this time forever. " You will think me transported with enthusiasm... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 494 pages
...day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward, forever. You will think me transported with enthusiasm,... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1830 - 84 pages
...President Adams, respectting the Fdurth of July, 1776 : — " It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time (1776) forward, forever." 66 In like manner, we would say... | |
 | William Allen - Electronic books - 1832 - 820 pages
...day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward, forever. You will think me transported with enthusiasm... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - United States - 1834 - 386 pages
...day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward for ever. " You will think me transported with enthusiasm... | |
 | max j. herzberg - 1834 - 1306 pages
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