Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John AdamsC. C. Little and J. Brown, 1840 - 447 pages |
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ABIGAIL ADAMS abroad absence Adieu affectionate agreeable American appearance arrived attend Auteuil beautiful believe blessings Boston Braintree called Captain character Charlestown Colonel Congress Countess of Effingham Court CRANCH daugh daughter DEAR SISTER DEAREST FRIEND dine distress domestic dress Duke of Marlborough England father favor fear feel France gentleman give Grosvenor Square guineas Hague hand happiness hear heart Heaven honor hope husband idea JOHN ADAMS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS kind lady land letter live London look manners ment mind minister months mother nature never night o'clock obliged peace person pleasure Plymouth polite PORTIA portunity present Quincy reason received render sailed Samuel Adams scarcely scene seen sent sentiments Smith spirit suppose taken tell thing thought tion told town vessel virtue week Weymouth whilst whole wish write
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Page 197 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 390 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 57 - This day be bread and peace my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done.
Page 193 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Page 426 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Page 8 - But what is bred in the bone will never be out of the flesh, (as Lord M.
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Page 91 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 24 - I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in the province ; it always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.