Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Volume 2C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1841 |
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... danger . Longs to come home . The people call for fighting . Page . 3 · 6 10 Letter CXLVI . 24 October . Tormenting uncertainty about affairs at the northward . News of the capitulation of Burgoyne not yet confirmed . Plan of ...
... danger . Longs to come home . The people call for fighting . Page . 3 · 6 10 Letter CXLVI . 24 October . Tormenting uncertainty about affairs at the northward . News of the capitulation of Burgoyne not yet confirmed . Plan of ...
Halaman vii
... danger . Letter CLXVII . Same date . Arrival of a new commission . No orders for him . Extraordinary delirium among Americans . He will return to the law in Boston . Letter CLXVIII . 21 February . His expenses very great . 1 42 42 44 46 ...
... danger . Letter CLXVII . Same date . Arrival of a new commission . No orders for him . Extraordinary delirium among Americans . He will return to the law in Boston . Letter CLXVIII . 21 February . His expenses very great . 1 42 42 44 46 ...
Halaman xii
... dangerous . • How he must treat his children . Letter CCXIII . 5 December . The President's speech . His son about to ... Danger of war . the President . Corruption . Effect of party spirit upon 132 1794 . News from 134 Letter CCXV . 2 ...
... dangerous . • How he must treat his children . Letter CCXIII . 5 December . The President's speech . His son about to ... Danger of war . the President . Corruption . Effect of party spirit upon 132 1794 . News from 134 Letter CCXV . 2 ...
Halaman xiii
... Danger of war . Wish of the Abbé Raynal . Apprehension of the future . His son . . • Letter CCXXVII . 7 April . Movements in the House . They may be drawn from their neutral ground . Elec- tion of Governor in Massachusetts . We must ...
... Danger of war . Wish of the Abbé Raynal . Apprehension of the future . His son . . • Letter CCXXVII . 7 April . Movements in the House . They may be drawn from their neutral ground . Elec- tion of Governor in Massachusetts . We must ...
Halaman xix
... danger recedes . Naval glory the birthright of America . • Letter CCXCIII . 25 January . Is as solitary as Fred- erick the Great . Dislikes his idolatry of Voltaire and his materialism . He early renounced such studies . Letter CCXCIV ...
... danger recedes . Naval glory the birthright of America . • Letter CCXCIII . 25 January . Is as solitary as Fred- erick the Great . Dislikes his idolatry of Voltaire and his materialism . He early renounced such studies . Letter CCXCIV ...
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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.