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Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848, son of AA and JA, designated as JQA in The Adams Papers):
Opinions and Beliefs
Education 16
Religion 16
Social 22
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AA2 as JA's secy.1
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admires teacher of deaf mutes1
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Almy Ellery1
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Americans wary of a traveler's veracity1
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Amer. versus European universities1
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Anna Dumas1
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arts in U.S.1
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“A single life in this Country cannot be an happy life”1
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bored at “insipid uniformity” of sea travel1
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Boston1
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Catherine Jones1
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commemorations of Battle of Bunker Hill1
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comments on absolute monarchy1
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comments on honor paid to André1
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comments on roads and lodgings in France1
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comments on travel1
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comments on Yale's library1
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compares conversation in U.S. and Europe1
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compares French and Brit. wines1
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contrasts U.S. and European education of young women1
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criticizes a hasty and improvident marriage1
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criticizes Othello (in the 1830s)1
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criticizes petty religious differences1
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describes “Italian eyes”1
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dislikes sarcastic misogyny of old bachelors1
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does not regret leaving sights of Europe for America1
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dreams1
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dullness of county life1
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Dumas family1
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Edward Wigglesworth1
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Eleazar James1
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Elizabeth Ellery Dana1
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engagement of AA2 to WSS1
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finds Americans as proud of family as Europeans1
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“Foibles of Mankind”1
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game laws1
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gentlemen1
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gloominess of snow1
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health effects of flute playing1
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hopes Concord and Lexington will be venerated by posterity1
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“How happens it, that revenge stares through the eyes of every Spaniard”1
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human nature1
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“Ideas of Beauty are often local”1
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Independence Day1
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“it is impossible, as well for whole Nations [England], as for particular persons to be Vicious and happy”1
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James Bridge1
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John Hale1
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London “for convenience and beauty is far superior to Paris”1
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Margaret Wigglesworth1
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marriage1
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Mass. elections1
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Mass. General Court1
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meeting with his brothers1
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Moses Little1
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Nathan Read1
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“nothing has so much influence over the human heart as the voice of undoubted friendship”1
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on popularity of social visits at N.Y.1
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originality1
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Palmer family's difficulties1
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poetry1
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refuses to attend opening of Charles River Bridge1
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relations between men and women1
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remarks on Denmark1
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republicanism1
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rewards of physicians1
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scholarly excellence1
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smokers1
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Stephen Sewall1
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stuff in New England1
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supports trade restrictions against British1
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“The good scholar is esteemed, even by the idle; but the bad one, is despised as much by those who are like him, as he is by the judicious”1
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“the instances, are very rare, where a person of a loose Character, makes any figure as a Scholar”1
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the uneducated1
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thinks English mealtimes ridiculous1
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thinks every impartial observer finds French stage superior to the English1
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thinks trifling matters are clues to character1
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thinks U.S.-Sweden treaty promises much commerce1
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Thomas Cushing1
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Thomas Thompson1
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Timothy Jennison1
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value of the English coronation crown “might have been better employed”1
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wit1
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WSS1
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young Amer. women value beauty over accomplishments1
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