Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams ...E. M. Cunningham, 1823 - 219 pages |
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... I was obnoxious , and I should not be surprised , if in his next letter to the king , he should do me the honour to denounce me to his majesty . This little sally raised a general laugh at the deacon's expense , and , as I suppose 9 57.
... I was obnoxious , and I should not be surprised , if in his next letter to the king , he should do me the honour to denounce me to his majesty . This little sally raised a general laugh at the deacon's expense , and , as I suppose 9 57.
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... honoured me . I hope , dear sir , that when the great acts of your life shall be told in marble , your country- men will recover that just estimation of your worth which shall consecrate in their hearts , through every convulsive scene ...
... honoured me . I hope , dear sir , that when the great acts of your life shall be told in marble , your country- men will recover that just estimation of your worth which shall consecrate in their hearts , through every convulsive scene ...
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... honour or receiving any comfort . For these reasons , I am decidedly against the project , and so is he . Private station , in my opinion , has no equal for him . Be so good as to tell me who are in nomination in your neigh- bourhood ...
... honour or receiving any comfort . For these reasons , I am decidedly against the project , and so is he . Private station , in my opinion , has no equal for him . Be so good as to tell me who are in nomination in your neigh- bourhood ...
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... honoured me , I conclude , that your correspondent has rendered himself unde- serving of your confidence . I am informed that the letter is much a topic at Boston , and has given rise to free animadversion . It is an ar- duous duty of ...
... honoured me , I conclude , that your correspondent has rendered himself unde- serving of your confidence . I am informed that the letter is much a topic at Boston , and has given rise to free animadversion . It is an ar- duous duty of ...
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... honour to receive from you , dated January 3d , I have before acknowledged . Permit me to re- mind you , that I have in expectation something farther from you , concerning the misnamed Aristides . I am perfectly ashamed to speak to you ...
... honour to receive from you , dated January 3d , I have before acknowledged . Permit me to re- mind you , that I have in expectation something farther from you , concerning the misnamed Aristides . I am perfectly ashamed to speak to you ...
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Page 173 - ... determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 169 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Page 172 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Page 172 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 175 - Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Page 173 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 174 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Page 174 - We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension; that these were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain; that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them; but that submission to their parliament was no part of our Constitution...
Page 71 - Letter from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States.
Page 167 - Reason first, you are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second, I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third, you can write ten times better than I can." "Well," said Jefferson, "if you are decided, I will do as well as I can.