you once asked my opinion of Dr Swift—Walter Scott has lately written a Life of him with Notes a preview of which is in the Edinburgh Review for Sep’br. I never could Love Swift. He had none of the milk of humane kindness in his nature, but Scotts Life of him places his Character in Such a cruel & Barberous Light as it respects...
...she expected quite a crop of little ones this winter, no less than four. May they live and prosper—the Russian climate is too cold to produce an American. I have lately been reading the Edinburgh Review & some extracts of a dr Clarks travels in Russia. If he is not as fabulous as those foreigners who have written their travels in America, I do more than ever commisirate your situation,...
3John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
, 2 vols. (London, 1815), appeared in the Edinburgh Review 26 (1816): 282–304.
4From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 4 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
...most material of them—but they appear not to have been read or considered of any value—a plan was laid by the British Ministry under Mr Pitt to set South America free—And what you have seen in the Edinburgh Review contains some imperfect hints of it only—
5From John Adams to James Lloyd, 22 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
“On the subject of the correspondence between General Miranda and General Hamilton, and the contemplated emancipation of South America, the Edinburgh Review of October 1808, January 1809. Vol. 13. P. 277, gives the interesting Address of Don Juan Pablo y Gusman, a native of Arcquipa in Peru, and an ecclesiastic of the order of Jesus, to his...
6From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
I will send you the Edinburgh Review, and write you again as soon as possible—mean time, I am ever affectionately yours
7From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
...History of those works—There are now three very distinct parties in this Country—Tories, or the Ministerial party—Whigs—and Reformers—The Quarterly Review is the Literary instrument of the first—The Edinburgh Review of the Second—and Cobbett’s Register of the third—This party, still deeply depressed, and having no leader but Sir Francis Burdett, who seems at this moment to shrink from the...
8From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
...ours, with whom you are no doubt acquainted has been some months in this Country; and is now upon his return to America—I shall endeavour to send you by him the last number of the Edinburgh Review; and the Newspaper now enclosed will give you a copious account of the Nuptial Drawing Room, which was almost as crowded as the Lord Mayor’s Easter Monday Ball—My wife has given you her account...
9From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
I sent you lately by Mr W. C. Bond the last number of the Edinburgh Review—Mr. and Mrs Perkins are now about returning to Boston, and have taken charge of the Antiquary, a new Novel by Walter Scott, which I hope will afford you and my father some Amusement—Its predecessors Waverly,...
10From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 27 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
..., which crept so unaccountably into the Silesian Letters, I Know will secure me another scratch from the titillating fingers of Edinburgh.—Lord Holland it seems, is himself one of the lashes of that Cat of nine tails the Edinburgh Review, and that Circumstance explains the vindictive rancour with which they scourged those Letters.