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Diary. July 31st. 1827 -

[1827-07-31]
My books and my old diaries being ...

[Titlepage]

Docno: DCA02d718

Author: CFA
Date: 1827-07-31 - 1828-10-15
Diary1
31st July 1827
15 October 1828.
[epigraph]
Among your principles I wish you may govern your conduct upon that of resort to reading, as the pleasure, to speaking as the relaxation, and to writing as the labour of life.
Author: J. Q. Adams
[epigraph]
ουδε η αρετη και κακια εν πεσει, αλλα ενεργεια.
Neither virtue nor vice consist in passive sentiment, but in action.
Author: Mar. Aur. Antoninus.
 
1. Titlepage of D/CFA/6, from which the following entries through 16 October 1828 derive. See the descriptive listing of CFA’s MS diaries in the Introduction.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/