...prepare them better for their conflict with the world—I anticipate no benefit to my own...
2From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 21 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
...a qualified sense that we can admit that all the “World’s a Stage; and all the men and...
...where the events most remarkable for the world are occurring; and imprisoned almost...
4From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
...time every thing that occurs in the world seems to be fashioned in subserviency to his...
5To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 30 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
...had ever proved strong, Napoleon has already shown the world, what account he makes of it— The...
6From John Quincy Adams to Walter Hellen, 8 August 1810 (Adams Papers)
The State of all the Commerce of the World is at this time so extremely precarious, so liable...
7To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 2 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
...herself the monopoly of Commerce, throughout the World—I have been labouring to convince...
8From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
...notices I find the Editor has informed the world “how ill-calculated, our townsman is...
9From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
...to the favour of Englishmen in any part of the world, nor even to that of the merchants in St...
10From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 November 1810 (Adams Papers)
...in our Country, venerable in the eyes of the world; and that by thus attaching the public...
11From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
...no hesitation of saying in the face of the world, that “the Will of Napoleon will always...
12From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
...may be very fairly allowed in any part of the world, not to know how to square the hypothenuse...
13From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
..., who is one of the politest men in the world, never pays any attention to any part...
14From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
they had brought into the world honestly. If I had gone childless through life, there...
15From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 29 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
...I have none later than 25. July. As the world of waters is again open before us I hope...
16From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
...But the project of monopolizing the Commerce of the World still makes them cling to this base...
17To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 21 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
...of the War in Spain that the fate of the world is suspended—So says the Emperor Napoleon, and...
18From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 1 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
...upon, it is of all the books in the world, that which contributes most to make men good...
19From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 8 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
...upon, it is of all the books in the world that which contributes most to make men good,...
20From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
...is an incident rather extraordinary in the annals of the World. We had the flag of the United...
21To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 14 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
...—Ignorant or blind to the real state of the world, and to the necessity which every wise...
22From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 15 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
...that he did not make himself, and that the world which he sees could as little make itself...
23From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 22 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
...loss was not however total in any part of the World; a remnant of it was every where preserved...
24From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 29 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
...different classes. 1. The history of the world, otherwise called Universal History. 2....
25From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
...“strong prevailment,” in counteracting the ill dispositions of the world, but I am not sure...
26To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 14 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
...character in the estimation of the rest of the world. But if even in our present state...
27From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
...obstacles, resulting from the actual State of the World.—By the course of the Seasons,...
28From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 6 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
...next Summer—But in the present State of the World it is scarcely possible to say whether the...
29To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 13 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
...If however as the French Astronomers are telling the world, we have not only two Comets...
30From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
...-clothes. There is I believe no Nation in the world, so addicted to signs, omens and portents...
31From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
...or prohibitory duties. In the present condition of the world, and it is much to be doubted...
32To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 13 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
...upon my mind, that it must only be what all the world may read.—This is the theory—and yet I...
33From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
...life, to see and get some knowledge of the world—Against all this there is a calculation of...
34From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
...my family and friends in your Quarter of the World, from June last, untill the commencement of...
35To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 12 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
of the world, by permitting the letter to be taken out of...
36From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 4 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
...in these times is the last thing in the world you will wish for—If our Country is...
37From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
The political Condition of the World, not only engrosses all our thoughts, but absorbs all...
38To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 13 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
...in her Wars with all the rest of the World, and the contempt at the notorious profligacy,...
39From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 14 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
, which your father gives the world credit for, which induced the honourable Seal-Breakers to...
40From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
...is natural; but in the present Condition of the World, it is perhaps more than it ever...
41From John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 29 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
...that his son’s virtue and fortune in the world would depend upon the Christian name he should...
42From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 29 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
...to say much on the public affairs of the world—You know my sentiments with regard to the...
43From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
...of human history since the Creation of the World, a greater, more sudden and more...
44From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 January 1813 (Adams Papers)
..., and by a weakness too common in the world, from the apprehension of inability to...
45To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 12 January 1813 (Adams Papers)
...service, that in the present Circumstances of the world, I could have a possible...
46From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 7 March 1813 (Adams Papers)
...the Hebrews as delivered by the creator of the world to Moses with reference only to its moral...
47From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 3 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
...into paper Currency, which every Nation in this part of the world,
48From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 4 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
...’s atonement and propitiation for the sins of the World, the only object of his mission upon...
49From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
...Whether the happiness of mankind or the Peace of the world, will gain any thing by this new...
50From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 5 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
...rather gained than lost in the Estimation of the World, by these vicissitudes of War, but upon...