1From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 13 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
I am glad to learn by your No. 12—that you are reading Burlamaqui and as he is sound in philosophy morals and Religion, I hope that you will not only read, but study him. Make an abstract or analysis of him, for I inculcate on all my young friends the maxim “studium—sine calamo, somnium.” My early patron Mr Gridley of whom you have so often heard me speak with veneration, who educated more...
2Thomas Jefferson to Charles Le Brun, 13 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of La Libertad del de los Mares which you have been so kind as to send me. I have read it with pleasure and a general approbn of the Author’s sentiments. principles. he seems to have counted on his hero for their establmt. in this he has been disapp d . nothing but a gen l concert of nations can effect it, but from the selfish Politics and crooked course of the...
3Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer (1789–1854), 13 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the copy you have been so kind as to send me of your excellent Agricultural address. it lays open the true and fundamental principles of good husbandry. withdrawn by age from active pursuits of that nature, I have had pleasure in reading this, and more especially in recieving it as a mark of your kind and friendly recollection, and in the a occasion it gives me of...