Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams, Volume 2C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1840 - Presidents' spouses |
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A. A. MY DEAR Abby ABIGAIL ADAMS acquaintance Adams Adieu affectionate agreeable America amongst amuse appearance arrived attend aunt Auteuil beautiful blonde lace Boston called Captain Carmarthen character Countess of Effingham Court cousin daugh daughter dear Lucy DEAR SISTER dine drawing-room dress England entertainment feel France French friends garden gentleman give Grosvenor Square guineas Hague hand hear heart Hollis honor hope idea Jefferson JOHN QUINCY ADAMS kind la Fayette ladies late letter London look Madam Majesty manners miles mind minister MISS LUCY CRANCH morning never o'clock obliged paintings Paris perfect stranger person pleasure polite present Queen Quincy received reside respect ribbon satin scene seen servant Smith spotted swine Storer suppose thing things must pass tion to-day town virtue walk Waters stagnate week whilst whole wish woman write
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Page 10 - Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty ! In wisdom hast Thou made them all.
Page 267 - 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 116 - 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 124 - ... by carrying them into act, or acting upon them; the principles of obedience, of veracity, justice, and charity. Nor can those habits be formed by any external course of action, otherwise than as it proceeds from these principles ; because it is only these inward principles exerted, which...
Page 263 - ANOTHER Year with promised blessings rise ! Eternal Power ! from whom those blessings flow, Teach me still more to wonder, more to know : Seed-time and Harvest let me see again ; Wander the leaf-strewn wood, the frozen plain : Let the first flower, corn-waving field, plain, tree, Here round my home, still lift my soul to Thee. And let me ever, 'midst Thy bounties, raise An humble note of thankfulness and praise ! ST.
Page 236 - ... 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 261 - 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 223 - 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 257 - There is joy in the angels of Heaven over one sinner that repenteth ; and surely this joy is not incommunicable to souls disentangled from the body, and made like angels. Let hope therefore dictate, what revelation does not confute, that the union of souls may still remain ; and that we who are struggling with sin, sorrow, and infirmities, may have our part in the attention and kindness of those who have finished their course, and are now receiving their reward.