A website from the Massachusetts Historical Society; founded 1791.
close

Index

Browse by Letter

Adams, Abigail Smith (1744-1818, wife of John, designated as AA in The Adams Papers):

Opinions and Beliefs

Miscellaneous

Open / close all subentries.

subentries

religion5

cosmetics4

AFC07

mails4

AFC07

marriage4

AFC07

debt2

AFC07

dogmatism and immodesty2

AFC07

gambling2

AFC07

recommends agriculture to Charles Storer2

AFC07

servants2

AFC07

slavery2

AFC07

wedding ceremonies2

AFC07

women2

AFC07

Algiers1

AFC07
72

Catholicism1

AFC07
445

charity1

AFC07
334

civil government1

AFC07
470

clothing of Germantown women1

AFC07
336

college life1

AFC07
180

“consolations which Christianity offers”1

AFC07
417

dangers of lawlessness1

AFC07
405

education for gentlemen1

AFC07
178

establishment of governments1

AFC07
472

friendships1

AFC07
258

frustrations at travel1

AFC07
316

history1

AFC07

“Human nature is much the same in all Countries, but it is the Government the Laws and Religion, which forms the Character of a Nation”1

AFC07
126

“Idleness is the parent of contention and disobedience”1

AFC07
360

importance of exercise and good diet1

AFC07
442

importance of public virtue1

AFC07
360

interracial relationships1

AFC07
81

lawyers1

AFC07
275

love of one's native country1

AFC07
304

“Man was not made to be alone”1

AFC07
202

meaning of life1

AFC07
448

“Much of Shakspears language is so uncooth that it sounds very harsh”1

AFC07
81

need for study of government in preparation for defense of rights of humankind1

AFC07
406

newspapers, “Liberty ought not to become licentiousness”1

AFC07
282

qualities of good home1

AFC07

quotes maxim “that can never be politically right, which is morally wrong”1

AFC07
275

raising children1

AFC07
82

sacrifice of public office1

AFC07
199

Sheridan's The School for Scandal 1

AFC07
145

substitution of pets for children1

AFC07
265

“The Man who fears not debt, is not to be trusted”1

AFC07
200

tobacco1

AFC07
346

Tripoli1

AFC07
72

Trumbull's The Death of General Warren 1

AFC07
82

virtue and theater1

AFC07
81

virtues necessary for good leadership1

AFC07

Search for keyword/phrase in this entry: