 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 str.
...had been constant and uniform in opposition to all her measures; that the die was now cast ; 1 had passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country, was nay unalterable determination/' The conversation was protracted into length, but this was the substance... | |
 | 1826 - 438 str.
...knew I had been constant and uniform in opposition to her measures ; 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." With such feelings and principles he took his seat in Congress,... | |
 | William Cranch - 1827 - 140 str.
...know that I have been constant and uniform in opposition to all her measures. The die is now cast; I have passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink — live or...with my country, is my unalterable determination." The conversation was terminated by Mr. Adams saying to his friend, " I see we must part ; and with... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 650 str.
...knew I had been constant and uniform in opposition to her measures ; 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." This was the last meeting of the two friends. The conversation was... | |
 | 1827 - 540 str.
...uniform in opposition to her designs. The die is now cast. I have passed the Rubicon. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination." He accordingly took his seat: and with what activity and effect he discharged its duties, the journals... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 str.
...attorney-general for Massachusetts in 1774: — 'The die is now cast. I have passed the Rubicon. To sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination.' The passage would be materially improved by leaving out the words ' survive or perish ;' but a leaning... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1841 - 462 str.
...Adams, at that time and under those circumstances, uttered the well known exclamation, "sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, with my country is my unalterable resolution." He terminated the deeply interesting conversation by saying; " I see we 36 must part,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 str.
...the patriot of lion heart and lofty soul uttered the memorable words, — " The die is now cast ; I have passed the Rubicon ; swim or sink, live or die,...my country, is my unalterable determination." Thus they parted, to meet no more till the " declaration " had been made good, and Adams had " a country... | |
 | William Henry Seward, John Mather Austin - 1849 - 424 str.
...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... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1850 - 378 str.
...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... | |
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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. 
