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Page 7 - for the seventh day of September, which was the thirty-fifth Psalm. You must remember, this was the next morning after we heard the horrible rumor of the cannonade of Boston. I never saw a greater effect upon an audience. It seemed as if Heaven had ordained that Psalm to he read on that morning. After
Page 52 - charms me. Thanks be to God, you have just cause to rejoice ; and may the bright prospect be obscured by no cloud. As to declarations of independency, be patient. Read our privateering laws and our commercial laws. What signifies a word ? As to your extraordinary code of laws,
Page 215 - and their salaries ascertained and established by law. For misbehavior the grand inquest of the colony, the house of representatives, should impeach them before the governor and council, where they should have time and opportunity to make their defence, but if convicted should be removed from their offices, and subjected to such other punishment as shall be thought proper.
Page 29 - and twenty other things. Our sentiments were heard in Congress with great caution, and seemed to make but little impression ; but the longer we sat, the more clearly they saw the necessity of pushing vigorous measures. It has been so now. Every day
Page 201 - of the behavior of my compatriots. No mortal tale can equal it. I will tell you in future, but you shall keep it secret. The fidgets, the whims, the caprice, the vanity, the superstition, the irritability of some of us is enough to
Page 8 - or especially the sortes Biblicse, it would be thought providential. It will amuse your friends to read this letter and the 35th Psalm to them. Read it to your father and Mr. Wibird. I wonder what our Braintree churchmen would think of this. Mr.
Page 58 - and family, which we call our own. And here we find it often so powerful, as to become partial, to blind our eyes, to darken our understandings, and pervert our wills. It is to this infirmity in my own heart, that I must perhaps attribute that local attachment, that partial fondness, that overweening prejudice in favor of
Page 93 - southward, and for southern preachers. There is no one thing in which we excel them more, than in our university, our scholars and preachers. Particular gentlemen here, who have improved upon their education by travel, shine ; but in general, old Massachusetts outshines her younger sisters. Still in several particulars they have more wit than we.
Page 160 - May, 1777. Also" The Writings of Washington" Vol. iv. pp. 377, 408. death with the wrangles between military officers, high and low. They quarrel like cats and dogs. They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay, like apes for nuts. I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much, in every stage of life, from the cradle to
Page 63 - Watertown, 1 24 January, 1776. I AM determined not to commit a fault, which escaped me the last time I set out for the southward. I waited on General Thomas at Roxbury, this morning, and then went to Cambridge, where I dined at Colonel Mifflin's with the General and lady, and a vast
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| Title | Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Volume 1 Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Charles Francis Adams |
| Author | John Adams |
| Publisher | C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1841 |
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