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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):
Relationship with Children
AA2 65
CA 5
JQA 109
TBA 5
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general advice and reflections on the children's rearing and education8
“[T]here are few who make the Choice of Hercules. That my Children may follow his Example, is my earnest prayer”2
advises study of Cicero, Erasmus, Phaedrus, the Greek Testament, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Sallust, Tacitus, Livy2
“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy ... in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick”2
“above all Things, preserve your Innocence, and a pure Conscience”1
AFC04
advice on education of AA21
AFC02
advises AA2 to learn needlework1
AFC02
advises CA to increase his mechanical ability1
AFC02
advises JQA to acquire “A Taste for Literature and a Turn for Business”1
AFC02
advises JQA to read newspapers and history1
AFC02
advises JQA to study ancient history1
AFC02
advises TBA to become a physician1
AFC02
“all the End of study is to make you a good Man and a useful Citizen”1
AFC04
“A Variety of Languages will do no harm unless you should get an habit of attending more to Words than Things”1
AFC04
behavior of sons1
AFC07
“Boys! Work you Rogues and be free. You will never have so hard Work to do as Papa has had”1
AFC05
cautions JQA on reading Bampfylde Moore Carew1
AFC02
commended by AA for precepts and instructions to1
AFC03
correspondence with1
AFC05
cultivation of knowledge, virtue, and simplicity brings usefulness, and consequently happiness1
AFC04
didactic character of letters to1
AFC03
does “not know how to do, without one of my sons at least with me”1
AFC06
education in own country preferred1
AFC04
“Every Thing in Life should be done with Reflection, and Judgment, even the most insignificant Amusements .... arranged in subordination to the great Plan of Happiness, and Utility”1
AFC04
“Geography, Geometry and Fractions ... are Useful sciences, and ... Branches of the Mathematicks ..., the most profitable and the most satisfactory of all human Knowledge”1
AFC03
“I desire I may never again have the Weakness to bring a Child to Europe”1
AFC04
independence as the proper end of education1
AFC04
“it is nature not the Ancients that you are to imitate and Copy”1
AFC04
JA: “I think it of more Consequence to have Children than to make them gay and genteel”1
AFC01
keeping of a diary and of a letterbook enjoined upon1
AFC03
legacy to, will be America's freedom and opportunity1
AFC05
“My Children will have nothing but their Liberty and the Right to catch Fish”1
EJA01
“My Children will not be so well left by their father as he was by his”1
AFC04
on benefits of fairs to1
AFC04
on JQA's schooling1
AFC01
on relationship of brother and sister1
AFC04
plan to put CA in school and bring AA2 and TBA to Europe1
AFC05
poetry earnestly recommended1
AFC03
purchases books for1
AFC03
reading the best writers and the formation of style1
AFC04
recommends CA and JQA obtain Hebrew dictionary and grammar1
AFC07
response to AA2-Tyler romance1
EJA01
sends “perpetual almanack” to JQA1
AFC02
takes JQA and CA to Europe1
EJA01
“the greatest pleasure I had in life, the society of my children”1
AFC04
urges JQA to study histories of revolutions1
AFC02
wants them to transcribe AA's letters1
AFC02
See also: under the names of the children
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