1John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
...Conversation, Correspondence, with you is the greatest Pleasure in the World to yr.
2John Adams to Abigail Smith, 12 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
...them.—Yet I doubt whether I understand human Nature or the World very well or not?
3John Adams to Abigail Smith, 26 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
ushered into the World, all the small Pox, that I can boast of...
4John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 May 1764 (Adams Papers)
...and Formality have lost all Reputation in the World and the utmost sublimation of Politeness...
5John Adams to Abigail Smith, 30 September 1764 (Adams Papers)
...would make me the most insufferable Cynick, in the World. I see nothing but Faults, Follies,...
6Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 15 January 1767 (Adams Papers)
...Winter never seem’d so tedious to me in the World. I daily count the days between this and...
7Isaac Smith Jr. to Abigail Adams, 21 February 1771 (Adams Papers)
...than any other of the sacred order in the world. It is calculated to inspire one on the...
8Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 19 January 1774 (Adams Papers)
...becoming in the Early part of Life. For bad as the World appears after the Scores...the World...
9Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Adams, 8 February 1774 (Adams Papers)
...sensible, ambitious of making an elegant Figure in the World, and aspiring to be a star of...
10John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
...I stand high or low in the Estimation of the World, so long as I keep a Conscience void...
11John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
...Mind, whether applauded or censured, blessed or cursed, by the World, I will not be unhappy.
12John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
...would chuse him, in preference to all the Men in the world, for my
13Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 9 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
...Superlative Mischief to their native Country, the British Empire and the World” (
14John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
...Jaunt, We have had Opportunities to see the World, and to form Acquaintances with the...
15Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 28 January 1775 (Adams Papers)
...to the utmost in the Great school of the World, while we are Confined to the Narrower...
16Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 25 February 1775 (Adams Papers)
...from Conjecture) which I could have Wished the World Might not have suspected: Considering how...
17John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 June 1775 (Adams Papers)
...to great Distances. They are the most accurate Marksmen in the World....the World. The...
18John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 July 1775 (Adams Papers)
I never observe in the World, an Example, of any Person brought to Poverty from...
19John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 September 1775 (Adams Papers)
...The Clergy are universally too little acquainted with the World, and the Modes of Business, to...
20John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
...a Blessing to her Family and an Example to the World. I build my Hopes of her Recovery, upon...
21John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
...Purity, and unaffected Piety and Virtue to the World. I know of no better Character left...
22John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 October 1775 (Adams Papers)
...Colony in America, and indeed of every other Part of the World, that I know any Thing of.
23John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 February 1776 (Adams Papers)
...the Arbiter of Events, the Sovereign of the World only knows, which Way the Torrent will...
24John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 March 1776 (Adams Papers)
...making certain Persons’ to be thought the greatest Statesmen in the World.—So much for Vanity.
25John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
...satisfied with the text to be given to the world, whereupon the text as revised and adopted...
26John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
Pope and Swift have given the World a Collection of their Letters; but I think in...
27Nathan Rice to Abigail Adams, 27 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
...from Quebec, with how much Justice the World must Judge when they know the...
28John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
...and Address. They want Knowledge of the World. They want the exteriour and superficial...
29John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
.... Our Expectations are raised—the Eyes of the World are upon Washington and How, and their...
30John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
.... But these are not the most respected by the World. A Man must be selfish, even to...