 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1879 - 680 pages
...deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forth forevermore ! " The result has equaled the great... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 430 pages
...deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore. You will think me transported with... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1879 - 758 pages
...deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore." Thus far, into the beginning of... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations,...to the other, from this time forward forever. You may think me transported with enthusiasm; but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and... | |
 | James Parton - Biography - 1880 - 688 pages
...deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore. "You will think me transported with... | |
 | Danvers Historical Society - Danvers (Mass.) - 1919 - 168 pages
...deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore."* The 3d day of July, 1776, was the... | |
 | Danvers Historical Society - Danvers (Mass.) - 1919 - 168 pages
...deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore."* The 2d day of July, 1776, was the... | |
 | David I. Kertzer - Political Science - 1988 - 264 pages
...great anniversary festival." He proclaimed: "It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parades, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations,...from one end of the continent to the other, from this day forward, forever more."31 Given Adams's views on the importance of political ritual, his later... | |
 | A. J. Langguth - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 644 pages
...deliverance by acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more." Once again, John Adams was a little... | |
 | Morris J. Vogel - Architecture - 1991 - 274 pages
...Independence, John Adams hoped that future generations would commemorate the event "with pomp and parade," with "games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations...the continent to the other from this time forward forevermore." Other rituals and icons took their place alongside Fourth of July celebrations. Among... | |
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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, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade,... 
