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Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886, son of JQA and LCA, designated as CFA in The Adams Papers):
Opinions and Beliefs
General
Note: habitual activities such as daily walks, weekly church attendance, the identification of Bible texts used in sermons, visits to the Boston Athenaeum, writing journal entries, and account keeping are not indexed.
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diary-keeping14
“[T]here is in the whole range of refined enjoyments none more perfect in all respects than that of listening to the good singing of a good Opera”1
DCA06
303*
“a case fit for a moralizing romance”1
DCA04
77*
acquisition of languages1
DCA04
404*
agitation in the population1
DCA07
259*
animal exhibitions and children1
DCA06
369*
animal magnetism1
DCA07
302*
a splendid dinner1
DCA04
387*
“a step taken ... rather from the spirit of worldly compliance than from a sense of right”1
DCA05
115*
a traveler1
DCA04
427*
attending large lectures1
DCA07
102*
bargains in books1
DCA04
418*
basis of respectability1
DCA03
118*
burning of the Lexington 1
DCA08
365*
candles1
DCA01
cards1
DCA05
305*
change1
DCA02
changing attitude of Bostonians toward JQA1
DCA07
101*
charity “fairs”1
DCA05
79*
city and country living1
DCA04
367*
clowns1
DCA06
376*
compares JA and JQA1
DCA07
272*
compensations of married life1
DCA04
392*
consistency1
DCA01
contrast between boyhood and manhood1
DCA08
160*
conversation1
DCA03
118*
danger to public men1
DCA03
207*
death of a promising youth1
DCA03
343*
distinctions between French and English ways of thinking1
DCA05
265*
doubt1
DCA04
381*
drinking1
DCA01
dueling1
DCA07
406*
duty visits1
DCA01
duty vs. interest1
DCA04
221*
dyspepsia as peculiar to America1
DCA05
230*
“Energy is a plant of tender growth”1
DCA05
107*
exercise1
DCA01
fancy versus reality1
DCA01
fixed removals to the country1
DCA06
128*
folly in a widow1
DCA03
230-231*
good temper1
DCA02
grandeur of universe1
DCA08
112*
Great Britain1
DCA03
211*
grief in the young1
DCA03
182*
“happiness of life is the quiet enjoyment of the pleasures of the world”1
DCA05
381*
Harvard College dinners1
DCA08
263*
his college class1
DCA03
311*
his law practice1
DCA05
43*
human mortality1
DCA08
330*
importance of navigation1
DCA01
indifference to human life in America1
DCA08
216*
instability of mind1
DCA05
358*
“Invention is the attribute of the young but perfecting comes by age”1
DCA08
255*
“I would rather hear Operas, but the labour of life is more necessary to keep a man alive than its luxuries”1
DCA06
305*
JQA's neglect of JA's papers1
DCA05
96-97*
lady companions in steamboats1
DCA06
20*
languages1
DCA01
lying and truth1
DCA02
male dinners1
DCA05
302*
management of money1
DCA03
356-357*
mathematical aptitude1
DCA03
34*
men's deeds and their consequences1
DCA05
31*
military parades1
DCA04
314*
misfortune in marriages1
DCA03
235*
national manners1
DCA01
New England enterprise1
DCA08
304*
Niagara Falls1
DCA07
30*
“Nobody can live in this climate without considerable resources”1
DCA05
37*
“noise is not to me a necessary concomitant of rejoicing”1
DCA05
120-121*
North Shore towns1
DCA07
271*
observing mourning1
DCA06
42*
on satisfying public curiosity1
DCA05
33*
opinionated men1
DCA03
186*
oyster suppers1
DCA01
phrenology1
DCA05
121*
pleasures1
DCA02
precise knowledge in newspapers1
DCA07
396*
prescience and free will1
DCA01
public charities1
DCA04
73*
public opinion and orginality1
DCA04
133*
quarrels about money1
DCA07
58*
Quincy compared to Cohasset1
DCA08
255*
railroads and speed1
DCA06
5-6*
reason as a guide to life1
DCA08
42*
recalling the past1
DCA05
314*
record snow1
DCA02
record thunderstorm1
DCA02
resolution1
DCA01
returned European travelers1
DCA05
404*
“Roué tribe”1
DCA03
327*
Saratoga and national health1
DCA02
satisfactions of life in England, in America, and in a propertyless state1
DCA05
266*
social calls1
DCA03
77*
Spanish language1
DCA01
stud advertisement1
DCA04
251*
the Boston press and the Adamses1
DCA04
246*
the changes time brings1
DCA05
125*
the commonplace1
DCA04
289*
“The conversation of an evening party is disgraceful to intelligent beings”1
DCA05
26*
the Quincys' entertainments1
DCA06
361*
toleration1
DCA02
translation1
DCA01
uniform of Highlander Corps1
DCA07
40*
untimely deaths1
DCA07
135*
U.S. and Canada contrasted1
DCA07
44*
using dogs for draft1
DCA07
43*
value of organizing Mass. state records1
DCA08
85*
walking around Boston Common1
DCA07
379*
W. E. Channing1
DCA02
“what is knowledge among us but to be the least ignorant”1
DCA07
360*
where merit lies1
DCA03
205*
wine1
DCA03
61-62*
women and marriage1
DCA05
402*
young girls' letters1
DCA01
young ladies in a household1
DCA04
377*
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