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" Nor had any other man attempted it, in this nation, in that age, if any one has attempted it since. Mr. Adams was an original — sui generis, sui juris. The variety of human characters is infinite. Nature seems to delight in showing the inexhaustibility... "
Memorials of William Smith Shaw - Strana 295
podľa Joseph Barlow Felt - 1852 - Počet stránok 346
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National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen ...

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - Počet stránok 688
...does John Adams, nearly half a century afterwards, exclaim, looking back to the men of that day : " Mr. Adams was born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of lignum vitœ which tied North America to Great Britain. Blunderheaded as were the British ministry, they had...
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The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities ...

1862 - Počet stránok 408
...toasts were given. Izotes anU Queries. NOTES. SAMUEL ADAMS. — John Adams said of him, that '• he was born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of lignumvitœ which tied North America to Great Britain ;" and no man in this country merited statues...
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The New England Magazine, Zväzok 16;Zväzok 22

1897 - Počet stránok 832
...warm enough for John Adams's expression of his admiration for his great kinsman. Sam Adams, he said, was "born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of lignum vitae that tied America to England." One of the most graphic passages in his writings is that in which he...
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Samuel Adams

James Kendall Hosmer - 1885 - Počet stránok 638
...resources of rhetoric quite inadequate for the expression of his admiration for his kinsman, says Sam Adams was " born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of lignum vitce that tied America to England." Hancock disappears from the fore, and Samuel Adams stands out...
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Old South Church (Third Church) Boston: Memorial Addresses, Sunday Evening ...

Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1885 - Počet stránok 146
...regarded as the greatest life-work of Samuel Adams. As his distinguished kinsman said of him, " he was born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of lignum-'vitce which tied North America to Great Britain." If he had done nothing else, his championship...
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Historic Americans: Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Certain Famous ...

Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1899 - Počet stránok 418
...crowning triumph. John Adams, of Massachusetts, his kinsman and associate in Congress, declared that " Sam Adams was born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of lignum vitce that tied America to England." Josiah Quincy, an ardent patriot, seeking health in England, wrote...
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Proceedings of the Oregon Bar Association at Its ..., Zväzok 14,Časti 1904–1906

Oregon Bar Association - 1907 - Počet stránok 164
...thought in the activity of our profession. It was Samuel Adams, a lawyer, of whom it was said: "He was born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the...vitae which tied North America to Great Britain," and when an effort was made to buy him off from asserting the convictions he had upon liberty, it was...
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Samuel Adams

James Kendall Hosmer - 1913 - Počet stránok 482
...resourced of rhetoric quite inadequate for the expression of his admiration for his kinsman, says Sam Adams was " born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of liynum vitui that tied America to England." Hancock disappears from the fore, and Samuel Adams stands...
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The New England Magazine, Zväzok 16;Zväzok 22

1897 - Počet stránok 782
...warm enough for John Adams's expression of his admiration for his great kinsman. Sam Adams, he said, was "born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the knot of lignum intae that tied America to England." One of the most graphic passages in his writings is that in which...
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Report of Proceedings, Zväzok 6

Washington State Bar Association - 1894 - Počet stránok 612
...by any office or gift, whatever." It was this lawyer who, in the words of a contemporary statesman, "was born and tempered a wedge of steel to split the...vitae which tied North America to Great Britain." "For fifty years," says the same statesman, "his pen, his tongue, his activity were constantly exerted...
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