 | Joseph Emerson - United States - 1846 - 200 pages
...He would commence with accustomed directness and earnestness. ' Shik or swim, live or die, sur vive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. It is true, indeed, that in the beginning, we aim Who has given us a most striking picture of this debating iisscmWy * Who was then president of... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...speech of John Adams, on the vote for independence. / SINK. \ or SWIM, / LIVE \ or DIE, / SURVIVE \/ I or PERISH, I \ give my hand and my HEART to this vote. \ If we FAIL, it can be no WORSE for us. \ But we shall NOT fail. \ The CAUSE / will raise up ARMIES;... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...SpeecJi of John Adams in favour of signing the Declaration of Independence. — D. WEBSTER. 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... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...Examples of "Expulsive Orotund." I.— "Declamatory" Style. FROM 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 judgment approves this measure ; and my whole... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...generally, the former has the rising, and the latter the falling inflection-. EXAMPLES. 1. Sink' or swim', live' or die', survive' or per'ish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. 2. There are also celes'tial bodies, and bodies terres'trial ; but the glory of... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...of "Expulsive Orotund." 1. — "Declamatory" Style. FROM 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 judgment approves this measure ; and my whole... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
..."Expulsive Orotund." 1 . — " Declamatory " Style. FROM 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 judgment approves this measure ; and my whole... | |
 | Joshua Leavitt - 1850 - 324 pages
...SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS, ON THE ADOPTION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. SINK or swim, live or die, I give my hand and my heart to this vote ! It is true,...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... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - History - 1850 - 322 pages
...oration, as having been delivered by him in the Philadelphia Convention, in 1776, commencing, " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote," has been often mistaken for the production of Mr. Adams himself: it follows so inimitably Mr. Adams'... | |
 | Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...the very sentiments avowed by Cromwell and other English patriots at the opening of the year 1649. " It is true indeed that in the beginning we aimed not at the OVERTHROW OF MONARCHY. But there's a Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of THE KING,... | |
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. 
