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" This is the most magnificent movement of all. There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots, that I greatly admire. "
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Works: With a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 pages
...emptied into the sea. This morning a man-of-war sails. This is the most magnificent movement of all.8 There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this...last effort of the patriots, that I greatly admire. The people should never rise without doing something to be remembered, something notable and striking....
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The Rise of the Republic of the United States

Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 pages
...the tea; and the narrative of their events in the " Life and Times of Warren " occupies fifty pages. There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this...last effort of the patriots, that I greatly admire." l " We," John Scollay, one of the selectmen and an actor, wrote, " do console ourselves that we have...
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The History of Massachusetts: From the Landing of the Pilgrims to the ...

George Lowell Austin - 1875 - 746 pages
...wrote Hutchinson, " was the boldest stroke which had yet been struck in America."1 "This," wrote Adams, "is the most magnificent movement of all. There is...last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire. The people should never rise without doing something to be remembered. The destruction of the tea is...
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 13

Massachusetts Historical Society - 1875 - 588 pages
...Sea. This Morning a Man of War sails. ThU is the most maguificent Movement of all. There is a Diguity, a Majesty, a Sublimity in this last Effort of the Patriots that I greatly admire. The People should ncver rise withont doing something to be remembered, — something notable & striking....
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The Memorial History of Boston: Including Suffolk County ..., Volume 3

Justin Winsor - 1882 - 790 pages
...23, 1773. ' Diary, Dec. 17, 1773. [Two pages of this diary, of which the accompanying fac-simile is a is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the Patriots that I greatly admire." : The blow was now struck ; the deed was done ; and there was no retreat. The enemies of liberty talked...
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Memorial of the Lives and Services of James Pitts and His Sons, John, Samuel ...

Daniel Goodwin - 1882 - 84 pages
...defied in the cause of justice and humanity. (Life of S. Adams, Vol. II, p. 126.) John Adams said. " This is the most magnificent movement of all There...greatly admire. This destruction of the tea is so bold and it must have so important consequences and so lasting that I cannot but consider it an epoch in...
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The Dearborns: A Discourse Commemorative of the Eightieth Anniversary of the ...

Daniel Goodwin - 1884 - 172 pages
...animates the countenances as well as the hearts of all we meet on this occasion." John Adams said, " This is the most magnificent movement of all. There...greatly admire. This destruction of the tea is so bold and it must have so important consequences and so lasting that I can not but consider it an epoch in...
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The History of Massachusetts, from the Landing of the Pilgrims to the ...

George Lowell Austin - 1884 - 686 pages
...Hutchinson, " was the boldest stroke which had yet been struck in America." 1 " This," wrote Adams, " is the most magnificent movement of all. There is...last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire. The people should never rise without doing something to be remembered. The destruction of the tea is...
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The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the ..., Volume 2

John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 pages
...Diary on the 17th of December: — " Last night, three cargoes of Bohea tea were emptied into the sea. This is the most magnificent movement of all. There...last effort of the patriots, that I greatly admire. The people should never rise without doing something to be remembered, something notable and striking....
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History of the Old South Church (Third Church) Boston: 1669-1884, Volume 2

Hamilton Andrews Hill - 1889 - 718 pages
...we have acted constitutionally.' 'This is the most magnificent movement of all,' said John Adams. ' There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this...last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire." " 1 Without this repetition of the oft-told tale of the destruction of the "detested tea," — which...
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