Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Volume 2C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1841 - United States |
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18 December 27 February Adieu affectionately agreeable Ameri America anti-federal anxiety army arrived believe Boston Britain brother Comte d'Estaing Congress danger dear DEAREST FRIEND December dined duty election enclosed England English Europe expect expenses farm favor fear February feel Ferrol forever fort Mifflin France French give Governor Hague happy hear heart Holland honor hope horses House of Representatives J. A. LETTER J. A. MY DEAREST J. A. Philadelphia January Jefferson JOHN ADAMS journey June King ladies last night leave liberty live March minister months morning nation never obliged Paris party Passy peace peuple souverain politics pray present President received resignation Senate sent Silas Deane soon Spain spirit Staphorst stockjobbers suppose tenderly thing tion to-day treaty vessel votes Washington weather week whole wish write yesterday York
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Page 244 - 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.
Page 133 - But my country has, in its wisdom, contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived, or his imagination conceived...
Page 44 - 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.
Page 90 - L'ambition dans l'oisiveté, la bassesse dans l'orgueil, le désir de s'enrichir sans travail, l'aversion pour la vérité, la flatterie, la trahison, la perfidie, l'abandon de tous ses engagements, le mépris des devoirs du citoyen, la crainte de la vertu du prince, l'espérance de ses faiblesses...
Page 276 - 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.
Page 161 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would 1 not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 267 - 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!
Page 161 - 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.
Page 67 - 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.
Page 136 - 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.