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Adams, Abigail Smith (1744-1818, wife of John, designated as AA in The Adams Papers):
Opinions and Beliefs
Europe 37
Individuals 140
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asserts superiority of New England and Amer. values over European15
angered by attacks against JA and America in London press12
changes view of French society5
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initial dismay at French manners and morals4
AFC05
“Patriotism in the female Sex is the most disinterested of all virtues”4
opposes Congress' conferring dictatorial powers3
AFC03
sorry that “the most Manly Sentiments in the Declaration are Expunged from the printed coppy”2
“a good government ill administerd is injurious to every member of the community”1
AFC05
“a Man, Grown old in the practise of deception and calumny”1
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“a Man makes but a poor figure solo”1
AFC06
“America is the Theater for a young fellow who has any ambition”1
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“A patriot without religion ... is as great a paradox, as an honest Man without the fear of God”1
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“at my age the greatest of my enjoyments consist in Friendship”1
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“Boston is as much Superiour to Paris, as London is to Boston”1
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calls Congress JA's “Sovereign”1
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characterizes Franklin1
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characterizes W. T. Franklin: “the young Cockatrice”1
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“Christiantiy ...teaches us to forgive our enemies”1
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commends study of Amer. history1
AFC06
comments on a Protestant praying for the dead1
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comments on trade and taxation1
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compares English, French, and Amer. beauties1
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compares English and French moral vices1
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compares good letterwriting to serving food1
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compares Hancock to the Golden Calf1
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compares manners of Southern women and European women1
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compares traveling through France and England1
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contrasts characters of JA and Franklin1
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describes and comments on Roman Catholic rituals1
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describes folly of Court etiquette1
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disapproves “Olive Branch” petition1
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discusses true friendship1
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dislikes Gothic churches in Canterbury1
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disturbed by low status of dissenting clergy in England1
AFC06
doubts U.S. can get needed credit with debt still unfunded1
AFC06
early affection for England1
AFC05
expects justly determined rank in the afterlife1
AFC06
fame without honor would be “like a faint meteor gliding through the Sky”1
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faults Americans who pass themselves off as English1
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fears effect of China trade on U.S.1
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finds English agriculture and towns superior to French1
AFC05
finds everything elegant in France is from England1
AFC05
folly and cruelty in the rise and fall of empires teach virtuous behavior1
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for repeal of the Regulating Act1
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Franklin's letter, “the Slanderous arrow that flieth in Secret”1
AFC04
“Honour does not consist so much in the Trust reposed, as in the able, the Honest, the upright and faithfull discharge of it”1
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hopes the states adhere to peace treaty to make JA's job easier1
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“I am sure I should make an awkward figure” in England1
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“I have found my taste reconciling itself to habits customs and fashions, which at first disgusted me”1
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“In America ... so few Ladies have a taste for Historick knowledge”1
AFC04
informs Edward Dilly of American crisis1
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“in moderation of enjoyment consists the most perfect felicity of the humane mind”1
AFC05
“Interest is a canker worm which will knaw to the vitals”1
AFC06
“I regret the trifling narrow contracted Education of the Females of my own country”1
AFC03
JA's services needed in Massachusetts1
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legislature has few of “superiour parts”1
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“Liberty or Death”1
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“Love of praise is a passion deeply rooted in the mind”1
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“Man is a dangerous creature”1
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“manners more than conversation distinguish a fine woman in my Eye”1
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Massachusetts' new spirit is “the insolence of wealth”1
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Mass. legislators “will Squable a while but do right in the end”1
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meditates on life's fleeting pleasures1
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more industry needed in law than medicine or theology1
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“Never omit writing for want of subjects”1
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on absolute government1
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on a “Code of Laws” for the new nation1
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on Amer. rights in Atlantic fisheries1
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on a proper joint commission1
AFC04
on British conciliatory acts1
AFC03
on Carleton-Digby letters as “only a tub to the Whale”1
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on Congress' actions re JA as directed against Massachusetts1
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on dueling1
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on import of victories at Saratoga and Yorktown1
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on influence of rulers upon public manners1
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on method of training general officers for Continental Army1
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on neglect of education of women1
AFC02
on public commencements1
AFC04
on repeal of the Stamp Act1
AFC02
on resistance to tea tax1
AFC01
on scarcity of Boston political leaders1
AFC02
on sensitivity of women1
AFC04
on significance of Burgoyne's defeat1
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on superiority of American society1
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on the “Massachusettensis” papers1
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on the “passion of Ambition”1
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on vocational opportunities in America1
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peace obstructed by haughty and unjust actions of Great Britain1
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praises French “little images”1
AFC06
pride in country1
AFC03
purpose of travel to see virtues and faults in other countries, and one's own1
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remarks on folly of many in high positions1
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says “false as the English” for “false as Hell”1
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says lack of sunlight depresses the spirits1
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sees likeness of Americans in English faces1
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sees Mass. manners becoming less republican1
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“the arm of treachery ... is lifted over us as a Scourge ... for our numerous offences”1
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theatrical acts and female entertainers in London and Paris1
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“the Business of Life here [is] Pleasure”1
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“their is nothing binding upon the Humane mind, but Religion”1
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“the old Deceiver”1
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“These are times in which a Genious would wish to live.... Great necessities call out great virtues”1
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“the Ship [America] is safe, but the pilots will have a tough time”1
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“the Sword is now our only, yet dreadful alternative”1
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“the World furnishes us with real objects of Charity where ever we are placed”1
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thinks English ladies have a “Masculine attire and Manners of Amazonians”1
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thinks French horses inferior to English1
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thinks three Americans do work of eight Britons1
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unimportance of noble birth1
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“We have both [British] armies from their Shipping. Tis what we have long sought for” (1777)1
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“We know too well the blessings of freedom, to tamely resign it”1
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“Why should we borrow foreign Luxeries [?]”1
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will finish with politics and “talk of that which more properly belongs to me”1
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