Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution: With a Memoir of Mrs. AdamsHurd and Houghton, 1876 - 424 páginas |
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Página xvii
... anxiety with which she was watching the course of events . Yet there is in it not a syllable of regret for the past or of fear for the future ; but , on the contrary , an acute perception of the obsta- cles in the way of an immediate ...
... anxiety with which she was watching the course of events . Yet there is in it not a syllable of regret for the past or of fear for the future ; but , on the contrary , an acute perception of the obsta- cles in the way of an immediate ...
Página xix
... anxiety occasioned by the activity of the imagination , as if it was , in every instance , founded upon reasonable cause . But the sufferings of this remarkable year were not limited to the mind alone . The terrors of war were ...
... anxiety occasioned by the activity of the imagination , as if it was , in every instance , founded upon reasonable cause . But the sufferings of this remarkable year were not limited to the mind alone . The terrors of war were ...
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... anxiety which would naturally have occurred to her mind , there was superadded one growing out of a rumor then in circulation , that some British emissary had made an attempt upon the life of Dr. Franklin whilst acting at Paris in the ...
... anxiety which would naturally have occurred to her mind , there was superadded one growing out of a rumor then in circulation , that some British emissary had made an attempt upon the life of Dr. Franklin whilst acting at Paris in the ...
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... anxiety for your health , Your 2. JOHN ADAMS . JOHN ADAMS . York , 1 29 June , 1774 . I HAVE a great deal of leisure , which I chiefly employ in scribbling , that my mind may not stand still or run back , like my fortune . There is very ...
... anxiety for your health , Your 2. JOHN ADAMS . JOHN ADAMS . York , 1 29 June , 1774 . I HAVE a great deal of leisure , which I chiefly employ in scribbling , that my mind may not stand still or run back , like my fortune . There is very ...
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... anxiety . I have four children . I had a pretty estate from my father ; I 1 All the persons named in this letter reached eminence , both professional and political , in Massachusetts . Of John and James Sullivan much information has ...
... anxiety . I have four children . I had a pretty estate from my father ; I 1 All the persons named in this letter reached eminence , both professional and political , in Massachusetts . Of John and James Sullivan much information has ...
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ABIGAIL ADAMS Adieu agreeable America anxiety army arrived believe Bilbao blessings Boston Braintree Britain brother Captain character Charlestown Colonel colonies Congress Continental army Court danger dear DEAREST FRIEND Delaware River distress duty enemy England expect father favor fear feel Ferrol fleet frigate gentlemen give Grape Island hand happy hear heard heart Heaven honor hope hundred inclose Island JOHN ADAMS John Quincy Adams lady letters liberty live March Massachusetts ment militia mind months morning Mount Wollaston never night obliged officers papers peace person Philadelphia pleasure politics PORTIA Pray province Quincy received sailed Samuel Adams sent sentiments September spirit suppose taken tell tender things thought tion told Tories town vessel virtue Washington week Weymouth whole wish write yesterday York