 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 462 pages
...of liberty, and the child was born not far away. It was in the council chamber of the old Statehouse yonder that "American independence was born.* These...came, the Congress of the United States was sitting in Philadelphia. It had been summoned two years before, on the seventeenth of June, 1774 — St. Botolph's... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 464 pages
...assisted at the birth, and he has told for us the story. He says, speaking of that day: "Otis was a Same of fire; Otis hurried everything before him. American...came, the Congress of the United States was sitting in Philadelphia. It had been summoned two years before, on the seventeenth of June, 1774 — St. Botolph's... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 pages
...of liberty, and the child was born not far away. It was in the council chamber of the old Statehouse yonder that "American independence was born." These...came, the Congress of the United States was sitting in Philadelphia. It had been summoned two years before, on the seventeenth of June, 1774 — St. Botolph's... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 pages
...prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all rifice a world either to their folly or their baseness. The period is now arrive that is in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free." Thus, years before the colonists... | |
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FANEUIL HALL is the cradle of liberty, and the child was born not far away. It was in the council chamber of the old Statehouse yonder that "American independence was born.* These are the words of John Adams, whose features you are looking on. He assisted... 