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Page 48 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 18 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.
Page 112 - And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day. 10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
Page 11 - I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year. My custom is to read four or five chapters every morning, immediately after rising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time, and seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day.
Page 125 - With sentiment refined. And as Time's car incessant runs, And Fortune fills my store, I want of daughters and of sons From eight to half a score. I want (alas ! can mortal dare Such bliss on earth to crave?) That all the girls be chaste and fair, The boys all wise and brave.
Page 126 - I want a warm and faithful friend To cheer the adverse hour, Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power — A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me, I want a kind and tender heart, For others...
Page 123 - ... long for more. What first I want is daily bread ; And canvasbacks and wine ; And all the realms of nature spread Before me when I dine. Four courses scarcely can provide My appetite to quell; With four choice cooks from France, beside, To dress my dinner well. What next I want, at princely cost, Is elegant attire...
Page 125 - I want — (who does not want ? ) — a wife, Affectionate and fair ; To solace all the woes of life, And all its joys to share. Of temper sweet — of yielding will, Of firm, yet placid mind, With all my faults to love me still, With sentiments refin'd.
Page 122 - Tis not with me exactly so — But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score ; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.
Page 77 - Abraham," in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed, and the " son of David," in whom the everlasting kingdom, promised to that patriarch, should be established.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings |
| Author | John Quincy Adams |
| Publisher | Derby Miller, 1848 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Feb 19, 2008 |
| Length | 128 pages |
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