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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):
Opinions and Beliefs
Britain 241
Diplomacy 21
Europe 95
France 84
Independence 30
Individuals 79
Ireland 12
Mediation 30
Miscellaneous 216
Netherlands 141
Peace 47
Religion 9
Spain 34
United States 212
Virtue 7
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opposition to Acts of Trade2
LJA01
LJA02
“A Church is a voluntary society of Christians ... a Body politick”1
LJA02
admires Brit. constitution1
AFC07
admires Catharine Macaulay1
AFC05
advances in science1
AFC07
Amer. geniuses1
AFC07
Americans “must be content to be poor and vain and despised”1
AFC07
Amer. poetry and art versus European1
AFC07
Amer. Revolution “is the most interesting chapter in the history of the world”1
AFC05
Anglo-French commercial treaty1
AFC07
arrested persons sent to England for trial1
PJA02
art of conversation1
AFC07
“a Slur may not hurt a Man in America so much as in [Europe]”1
AFC05
authority of Parliament1
PJA02
becoming a great man1
AFC07
“Bread earned on a Farm is simple but sure. That which depends upon Politicks is as uncertain as they”1
AFC05
Britain's lack of appreciation for scholarly pursuits1
AFC07
Brit. shipping capacity1
AFC07
cares nothing for further success, now that country is out of danger1
AFC05
comments on extent of jury's power1
LJA01
compares own trials to those of Job1
AFC05
competitiveness of Mass. shipping1
AFC07
concern over Confederation-state relations1
AFC05
continuing exclusion of loyalists1
AFC07
criticizes Society of the Cincinnati1
AFC05
death of Lucy Quincy Tufts1
AFC07
decline of ancient cultures through luxury and vice teaches valuable lessons1
AFC06
decline of real property in Boston1
AFC07
“deep and subtle systems of Corruption” will be used to undermine America1
AFC05
defends Daniel Rogers1
AFC07
defends diplomatic record1
AFC05
defines a happy life as “Health and Competence, with a clear Conscience among People who esteem and love you”1
AFC06
difficulty of moving1
AFC07
dislikes balls1
AFC07
encourages envoy to confide in fiancée1
AFC06
England is “a fine Country, undone by Prosperity. It has the Vertigo in the Head”1
AFC05
fears the “putrid streets of Paris”1
AFC06
“feelings of every American Minister in Europe have been wantonly sacrificed to Dr. F[ranklin]'s vanity”1
AFC05
feels British newspaper criticism testifies to his honesty1
AFC06
feels no obligation to justify religious beliefs1
AFC06
foreign alliances1
PJA02
has been “unfortunate in private life, [but] uniformly successful as a public man”1
AFC05
ideal of a sober, industrious youth1
AFC05
“I have lost all my Correspondents in Congress”1
AFC05
impossibility of U.S. reunification with Britain1
AFC07
“I shall part with Mr. Jefferson, with great Regret”1
AFC06
“it is by the female world, that the greatest and best characters among men are formed”1
AFC05
“it is my unalterable Resolution, not to remain in Europe, consuming in vain but unavoidable Ostentation, the Labour of my fellow Citizens”1
AFC05
Jefferson's response to critiques1
AFC07
Jonathan Sewall as replacement as minister to Britain1
AFC07
“Law is a Covenant”1
LJA01
Lord Abingdon and Shelburne's sentiments toward U.S.1
AFC07
luxury1
AFC07
Matthew Robinson-Morris1
AFC07
Moravians1
AFC07
“my political Career is run. I will wind off as decently as I can”1
AFC05
navigation act passed by Mass. General Court1
AFC07
on George Ill's speech at accession to throne1
LJA02
on nepotism and lack of law training among the Hutchinsons and Olivers1
LJA01
on Otis' Rights of the British Colonies 1
LJA02
on possible revolutions in Europe incited by Amer. Revolution1
AFC05
opinion of Portland, Fox, and Burke1
AFC05
“Our Country is grown, or at least has been dishonest. She has broke her Faith with Nations, and with her own Citizens”1
AFC07
paper money1
AFC07
payment for destroyed tea1
PJA02
performing animals1
AFC07
praises Cato and condemns Caesar1
AFC05
praises classical orators1
AFC05
praises Massachusetts' Navigation Act1
AFC06
praises Sarah Siddons' acting1
AFC06
prefers French to English cooking1
AFC06
promotion of manufacturing and agriculture in U.S.1
AFC07
quality of Amer. men and women1
AFC07
recommends U.S. impose navigation acts1
AFC07
requisites for virtuous citizens1
AFC07
sees reward for public sacrifices in Heaven1
AFC05
study of Hebrew1
AFC07
suspicious of law students at London's Temples1
AFC05
taxation in Europe versus U.S.1
AFC07
“The more We pursue these Speculations the higher Sense We shall have ... that all which now Appears irregular will be found to be Design”1
AFC07
“The passions of man ... are contagious”1
LJA03
“the People of America, choose to [have] their Ambassadors abroad despized”1
AFC06
“the polite life in Europe is such an insipid round of headdressing and play”1
AFC05
“the want of Industry, and the Excess of luxury in our Merchants”1
AFC07
thinks Court life lonely for the virtuous1
AFC05
thinks diplomats in London less respectable than in Paris or The Hague1
AFC06
thinks European universities a bad model for Harvard1
AFC05
Thomas Boylston1
AFC07
U.S. economic situation1
AFC07
voluntary support for defense of Britain1
PJA02
weaknesses of Articles of Confederation1
AFC07
William Gordon1
AFC07
“will never be a Slave . . . to keep a Place, or to get a Place”1
AFC05
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