 I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to...  Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution - Page 373by John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 424 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Adams - 1841 - 314 pages
...to exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought...study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. Adieu. LETTER CLXXIX. MY DEAR PORTIA, YESTERDAY we went to see the garden of... | |
 | John Adams - 1841 - 304 pages
...and philosophy. My sons ou«ht to utiidy mathematics and philosophy, geography, miliiml history iind naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture,...children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architoeliiru, tuutuary, tapestry and porcelain. Adieu. LETTER CLXXIX. Mr IIKAII I'Oin'iA, YBSTEKDAIT... | |
 | 1868 - 1048 pages
...mathematics, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in ordrtr to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. There is everything here that can inform the understanding, or refine the taste,... | |
 | John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 498 pages
...volumes with descriptions of temples and palaces, paintings, sculptures, tapestry, porcelain, dr.. etc., etc., if I could have time ; but I could not...study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. Adieu. 266. JOHN ADATKS. Parii, 17 .',.... 1780. Mr DEAR PORTIA, — I yesterday... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 474 pages
...exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought...study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. Adieu. f 266. JOHN ADAMS. Paris, 17 June, 1780. MY DEAR PORTIA, — I yesterday... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - 1921 - 376 pages
...Washington, when he wrote to his wife in 1780: I must study politics and war, that ray sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation and commerce and agriculture; in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music,... | |
 | Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1914 - 572 pages
...exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought...study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." John Adams and his contemporaries may not have had American grandfathers... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - 1921 - 428 pages
...study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation and commerce and agriculture; in order to give their children...study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. In 1780 America was quite innocent of art; or rather, such art as it had —... | |
 | Ulysses Grant Weatherly - 1926 - 416 pages
...John Adams wrote thus to his wife : " I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural...navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their sons a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." 2... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1962 - 130 pages
...indeed to exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war that my sons have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought...study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." The colleges in America 100 years ago and earlier were equipped to servo... | |
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