1Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 11 April 1798 (Adams Papers)
...the communications; though I am very apprehensive at the expense of the liberty at least of our Envoys if they are still in Paris. The instructions the Senate have directed to be published: the world will then see, that the unjust aspersions cast upon the President, that he wished for war, and that the instructions were not ample, are as groundless as many others which are industriously...
2Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 11 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
...I should like to pass those without intestine broils and commotions, and see a fair prospect of leaving to posterity the blessings of peace and freedom, laws and government. My sentiments are for you alone: you know how the world would judge them, selfish and interested; experience may teach them to their sorrow, that I have not judged amiss....intriguant in the World—a man devoid of every...
3Abigail Adams to John Adams, 26 April 1797 (Adams Papers)
...me. My agitated mind wants repose. I have twice the present week met my friends and relatives, and taken leave of them in houses of mourning. I have asked, “Was all this necessary to wean me from the world? Was there danger of my fixing a too strong attachment upon it? Has it any allurements, which could make me forget, that here I have no abiding-place?”...to leave the world. She made...
4Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 6 September 1800 (Adams Papers)
...I have conjured the unhappy Man by all that is Dear, Honour, reputation, and Fame, his Family and Friends, to desist, and to strive to regain what he was daily loosing in the estimation of the World. I have painted before him the misiry he was bringing upon himself his amiable wife and lovely innocent Children; but all has been lost upon him. He has already brought down a load of disgrace...
5Abigail Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
...spent in acquiring a Competancy, and having lived and Educated a family in the enjoyment & expectation of it, to be deprived of it, at a time when we most need repose and quiet; the unsettled State of the world, and the rapid Changes which have taken place, has renderd Property less Secure than in any former times—
6Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 28 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
what can you expect me to write you from this village; where I hear & know no more what is passing in the world, than if I was wholy secluded from it. I have not seen a Newspaper since I came and but one gentleman from N york. I can tell you that the leaves wither and fall, beautifully varigated by the...
7Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 April 1797 (Adams Papers)
America” to “flock to this standard,” the writer further urged the nation to strive to “be in peace with all the world” but to “not forget that great people who were our
8Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 13 February 1798 (Adams Papers)
any person at all conversant in the world must be stupid indeed not to take an interest in the Great Events which are now acting upon the Theater of the World, particuliarly the French revolution which astonishes the universe. I know not how better to describe it than in the words of a late writer...of Peacefeild, Secured from the Noise of the World, its power and ambition. Publick...
9Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 20 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
and Sanctiond by the experience of Ages as one of the strongest Links in the social order, as one of the firmest pillars which supports Decency, Virtue, and Religion, in the world. It is the origion of all relations, and the first Element of all duties,..., has by these two things done more towards the Peace, happiness settlement and civilization of the world, than by any other part,...
10Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 23 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
...in looking round, and making inquires may not be mispent. you will find William shaw much grown. you will find him possessd of a Good Heart and an amiable obliging temper; wanting experience & a knowledge of the world, with some peculiarities of which I dare say he does not hear so often by one half, as if he had his Aunt with him there is one, of which I have often reminded him, and which...