 | Charles Francis Adams - 1892 - 558 halaman
...to remark that, could he "ever suppose that family pride were any way excusable, [he] should thiuk a descent from a line of virtuous, independent New England farmers for a hundred and sixty years was a better foundation for it than a descent through royal or noble scoundrels... | |
 | Old Colony Historical Society - 1899 - 702 halaman
...more trenchantly by saying: " If I could ever suppose that family pride were anywhere excusable, 1 should think a descent from a line of virtuous independent New England farmers for one hundred and sixty (1) Works of John Adams, Vol. 1,464. years a better foundation for it, than a descent through royal... | |
 | 1911 - 752 halaman
...neither of us has any cause to regret that circumstance." " If I could ever suppose that family-pride was in any case excusable, I should think a descent...New England farmers for one hundred and sixty years was a better foundation for it than a descent through royal and titled . . . ever since the Flood."... | |
 | Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards - 1917 - 312 halaman
...energetically to remark that, could he 'ever suppose that family pride were any way excusable, [he] should think a descent from a line of virtuous, independent New England farmers for a hundred and sixty years was a better foundation for it than a descent through royal or noble scoundrels... | |
 | Frederick Taylor Gates - 1928 - 310 halaman
...of having over-much pride of birth, said that if he could ever suppose family pride to be excusable, a descent from a line of virtuous independent New England farmers for a hundred and sixty years was a better foundation for it than a descent from regal or noble scoundrels... | |
 | John Adams - 2003 - 308 halaman
...(10 March 1791) On his ancestors. (WJA IX 564) If I could ever suppose that family pride were any way excusable, I should think a descent from a line of virtuous, independent New England farmers for a hundred and sixty years, was a better foundation for it than a descent through royal or noble scoundrels... | |
 | Joseph Horowitz - 2005 - 664 halaman
...Chadwicks and approvingly quoted John Adams: "Had I ever supposed that family pride were in any way excusable, I should think a descent from a line of virtuous, independent New England farmers for 160 years was a better foundation for it than a descent through royal or noble scoundrels ever since... | |
 | James Grant - 2005 - 572 halaman
...he wrote in 1791 to Hannah Adams, a writer of religious books and the daughter of a distant cousin," "I should think a descent from a line of virtuous, independent New England farmers for a hundred and sixty years, was a better foundation for it than a descent through royal or noble scoundrels... | |
 | 1904 - 806 halaman
...regret that circumstance." " If I could ever suppose that family pride was in. any case excusable, 1 should think a descent from a line of virtuous, independent...New England' farmers for one hundred and sixty years was a better foundation for it than a descent through royal and titled scoundrels ever since the Flood."... | |
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