Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams, Volume 2C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1840 - Presidents |
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A. A. MY DEAR Abby ABIGAIL ADAMS acquaintance Adams Adieu affectionate agreeable America amongst amuse appearance arrived aunt Auteuil Bath beautiful beauty of Bath believe blonde lace Boston called Captain character Countess of Effingham Court cousin daugh daughter dear Lucy DEAR SISTER dine drawing-room dress England entertainment esteem feel France friends garden gentleman give Gothic archi Grosvenor Square guineas Hague half hand heart honor hope idea Jefferson JOHN QUINCY ADAMS kind Kingsbridge ladies late letter London look Madam Majesty manners ment miles mind minister months morning never obliged paintings Paris perfect stranger person pleasure polite portunity present Queen Quincy received reside ribbon scene seen servant Smith spirit suppose taste thing tion to-day town virtue walk week whilst whole wholly William the Conqueror wish woman write
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Page 200 - 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 277 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round...
Page 241 - 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 126 - Needful auxiliars are our friends, to give To social man true relish of himself. Full on ourselves descending in a line, Pleasure's bright beam is feeble in delight : Delight intense is taken by rebound; Reverberated pleasures fire the breast.
Page 246 - ... upon a grand and superb scale, requiring about thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables; an establishment very well proportioned to the President's salary.
Page 241 - My feelings are not those of pride or ostentation, upon the occasion. They are solemnized by a sense of the obligations, the important trusts, and numerous duties connected with it. That you may be enabled to discharge them with honor to yourself, with justice and impartiality to your country, and with satisfaction to this great people, shall be the daily prayer of your AA
Page 271 - He that has none must make them, or be wretched. Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack, the rack of rest, To souls most adverse, action all their joy.
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Page 233 - Nothing, says Seneca, is so melancholy a circumstance in human life, or so soon reconciles us to the thought of our own death, as the reflection and prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. Who would stand alone, the sole remaining ruin, the last tottering column of all the fabric of friendship once so large, seemingly so strong, and yet so suddenly sunk and buried ? I am, &c.
Page 185 - I have had with me for a fortnight a little daughter of Mr. Jefferson's, who arrived here with a young negro girl, her servant, from Virginia. Mr. Jefferson wrote me some months ago that he expected them, and desired me to receive them I did so, and was amply repaid for my trouble. A finer child of her age I never saw. So mature an understanding, so womanly a behavior, and so much sensibilitt, united, are rarely to be met with.