 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 頁
...his characteristic energy of language, "The die is cast: I have passed the Rubicon : sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination." Ho took his seat in Congress, September 5, 1774, and was on tho committee which drew up the statement... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1853 - 666 頁
...political ideas he received were such as John Adams then uttered: "We must fight." "Sink or swim — live or die — survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination." A mother fervently pious, and eminent in intellectual gifts, directed with more than maternal assiduity... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 頁
...characteristic energy of language, '• The die is cast: I have passed the Rubicon : sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination." He took his scat in Congress, September 5, 1774, and was on the committee which drew up the statement... | |
 | Lorenzo Sabine - 1864 - 622 頁
...the Great Hill at Portland, that Adams used the memorable words : " The die is now cast ; I have now passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with iny country is my unalterable determination." They parted, and met no more until 1788. The one, the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 頁
...a conversation with Jonathan Sewall, in 1774, says, " I answered, that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. - Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, was my unalterable determination." Adams' Works, vol. iv. t Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams, "on the... | |
 | William Vincent Wells - 1865 - 534 頁
...probable that he was mainly instrumental in bringing John Adams to become a delegate. " Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, with my country, is my unalterable determination," he said soon after to Sewall, his friend and associate at the bar. The public career of John Adams... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 頁
...a conversation with Jonathan Sewall, in 1774, says, ' I answered, that the die was now cast ; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, was my unalterable determination.' — Adams' Worhs, vol. iv. t Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams, ' On... | |
 | Frederic Hudson - 1873 - 806 頁
...the Great Hill at Portland, that Adams used the memorable words : " The die is now cast ; I have now passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink, live or die, survive...with my country is my unalterable determination." They parted and met no more, until Sewall came to America in 1788. The one, the high-souled, the lion-hearted... | |
 | Frederic Hudson - 1873 - 814 頁
...the Great Hill at Portland, that Adams used the memorable words : " The die is now cast ; I have now passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink, live or die, survive...with my country is my unalterable determination." They parted and met no more, until Sewall came to America in 1788. The one, the high-soulcd, the lion-hearted... | |
 | 1873 - 420 頁
...power is irresis' table." "That very determination in her 'system determines mine," answered Adams; 'swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish ' with my country, is my unalterable determina' tion." * They next saw each other in England, where Sewall had retreated, as a loyalist,... | |
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The die is now cast; I have passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink — live or die — survive or perish, with my country, is my unalterable determination. 
