Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Volume 2C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1841 |
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Halaman ix
... Holland . Economy desirable only as a means of independence . 1781 . Letter CLXXXIII . 2 December . Disappointment in the return home of his second son . There will be no peace for years . His children shall not be disgraced by him ...
... Holland . Economy desirable only as a means of independence . 1781 . Letter CLXXXIII . 2 December . Disappointment in the return home of his second son . There will be no peace for years . His children shall not be disgraced by him ...
Halaman xi
... Holland . Letter CCIII . 2 December . Written at Braintree . in a flurry with politics . Elections . His own position . Vanity or comfort his alternative . 1789 . Letter CCIV . 19 April . Has arrived at Rye . An account of his reception ...
... Holland . Letter CCIII . 2 December . Written at Braintree . in a flurry with politics . Elections . His own position . Vanity or comfort his alternative . 1789 . Letter CCIV . 19 April . Has arrived at Rye . An account of his reception ...
Halaman xiii
... and Sciences . Has resigned as President . Message to his brother . Letter CCXXXIV . 27 May . President Washington 147 150 151 153 155 156 158 159 160 162 Page . will appoint her son minister to Holland . CONTENTS . xiii.
... and Sciences . Has resigned as President . Message to his brother . Letter CCXXXIV . 27 May . President Washington 147 150 151 153 155 156 158 159 160 162 Page . will appoint her son minister to Holland . CONTENTS . xiii.
Halaman xiv
John Adams. Page . will appoint her son minister to Holland . Directions to him how to proceed . • 163 Letter CCXXXV . 15 November . Time lost in Con- gress . Western insurrection . Result of elections . 164 Letter CCXXXVI . 17 November ...
John Adams. Page . will appoint her son minister to Holland . Directions to him how to proceed . • 163 Letter CCXXXV . 15 November . Time lost in Con- gress . Western insurrection . Result of elections . 164 Letter CCXXXVI . 17 November ...
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... had it in their power to be in Philadelphia before morning . The papers of Congress belonging to the Sec- retary's office , the War office , the Treasury office , & c . , Page . will appoint her son minister to Holland . LETTERS . 7.
... had it in their power to be in Philadelphia before morning . The papers of Congress belonging to the Sec- retary's office , the War office , the Treasury office , & c . , Page . will appoint her son minister to Holland . LETTERS . 7.
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Halaman 154 - Ay! I am fairly out, and you fairly in! See which of us will be happiest.' " When the ceremony was over, he came and made me a visit, and cordially congratulated me, and wished my administration might be happy, successful, and honorable.
Halaman xvi - See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Halaman 189 - If a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth ; if an attachment to the constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it...
Halaman 189 - ... who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues, and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty, to independence and peace, to increasing wealth and unexampled prosperity, has merited the gratitude of his fellow-citizens, commanded the highest praises of foreign nations, and secured immortal glory with posterity.
Halaman 186 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Halaman 177 - I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house, and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
Halaman 87 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Halaman 87 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Halaman 17 - It is not indeed the fine arts which our country requires; the useful, the mechanic arts are those which we have occasion for in a young country as yet simple and not far advanced in luxury, although perhaps much too far for her age and character.
Halaman 62 - The news of this evening is, that the Queen of France is no more.* When will savages be satiated with blood? No prospect of peace in Europe, and therefore none of internal harmony in America. We cannot well be in a more disagreeable situation than we are with all Europe, with all Indians, and with all Barbary rovers. Nearly one half of the Continent is in constant opposition to the other, and the President's situation, which is highly responsible, is very distressing.