1James Madison: Testimonial, 27 November 1834 (Madison Papers)
...their own benefit, but the
good of the country and the world.
2To Benjamin Franklin from ———, 10 May 1757 (Franklin Papers)
...Samuel Kirk said the most ignorant man in the World Would be Convins’d its So Demonstriable to...
...in the militia to declare to the world their acquiescence, and determination to...
4To John Adams from Joshua Knight, 18 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
...be ignorant of facts which are known to all the world. We are sensible that we live under one...
5Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 23 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
...conduct should not suffer an impeachment in the Eye of the World, much...the worlds judgeing...
6Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1801 (Adams Papers)
...Breast, any animosity, or resentment against the World, or even those individuals who have...
7Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 3 February 1794 (Adams Papers)
...aversion to join in the cheerful circle, or mix in the world, when opportunity offers. I think
8Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 5 July 1801 (Adams Papers)
...a private nature, to have to begin anew the world, and that in a profession which he never...
9Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 9 April 1778 (Adams Papers)
the discretion in the World....other whose services I will leave to the World to judge of, shall...
10Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 10 May 1781 (Adams Papers)
...exceedingly hurt even by the Speach of the world, if she is otherways sufficiently convinced...
11Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 18 November 1779 (Adams Papers)
...feel less keenly the wound, but to me the world and all its enjoyments are hazarded at...
12Abigail 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...
13Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 25 May 1786 (Adams Papers)
...estimate their motives and actions from what the world forms of them. Judge of the Supreem...
14Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 17 March 1781 (Adams Papers)
...pursuaded says a Lady who had seen much of the world, that a woman who is determined to place...
15Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 5 September 1784 (Adams Papers)
...believe this Nation is the only one in the world who could make Pleasure the Business of Life,...
16Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
...by Lysander than by the greater part of the World besides. I would fain hope that those...
17Abigail Adams to John Adams, 26 April 1797 (Adams Papers)
..., “Was all this necessary to wean me from the world? Was there danger of my fixing a too...
18Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 6 September 1800 (Adams Papers)
...he was daily loosing in the estimation of the World. I have painted before him the misiry...
19Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778 (Adams Papers)
...the agitation of my mind upon this occasion. The World may talk of Honour, and the ignorant...
20Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 20 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
...supports Decency, Virtue, and Religion, in the world. It is the origion of all relations...
21Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 10 March 1787 (Adams Papers)
...proportion of good than evil predominating in the World, who could suffer being here below?...
22Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 23 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
...temper; wanting experience & a knowledge of the world, with some peculiarities of which I...
23Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, 18 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
...Wary, more circumspect and a commerce with the World does not increase ones estimation of its...
24Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 15 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
...irreligion is demoralizing the world Shall the influence of Government unite to place at...
25Abigail Adams to Elias Boudinot, post 15 June 1801 (Adams Papers)
intence study in giving to the world in the accomplishment of a work highly usefull to the world.
26Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Gray Otis, post 15 December 1801 (Adams Papers)
...mind— have you never seen a little Book calld the World turnd upside down? If I was to offer...
27Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 28 November 1800 (Adams Papers)
...— We have indeed come into a new part of the world, and amongst a new Set of inhabitants; it...
28Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 26 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
...of one of the greatest Statesman in the World, Sully, that we ought neither to......the World...
29Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 18 December 1791 (Adams Papers)
...not strickly guard her. Katy has all the dispositions in the world [as] sterns says,
30Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 April 1780 (Adams Papers)
...find myself at the same time less attached to the world and the enjoyments of it, whether I am...
31Abigail Adams to John Adams, 4 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
...other Party—! such is the Patriotism of the World. how little Sterling integrity! how hard the...
32Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
...in this city, has not Served to endear the world to me. to private and domestick Sorrow,...
33Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 15 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
...Gentleman, I and every Friend she had in the world, would rejoice if she could liberate...
34Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
...denunciations of this kind are presented to the World, supported by the influence, of...
35Abigail Adams to John Adams, 28 April 1783 (Adams Papers)
“Peace o’er the world her olive Branch extends.”...no more of him than if he was out of the world.
36Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 May 1783 (Adams Papers)
...of my having had a partiality in his favour. The world look back to the days in which I knew...
37Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 4 February 1800 (Adams Papers)
...sister that in the midst of Laughter, as to the World it seem’s, the Heart is sad. every...
38Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 1 January 1788 (Adams Papers)
An other Relative too, has left the world, who tho long lost to the World & his Friends, yet...
39Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 29 April 1783 (Adams Papers)
...a Friend to recommend them to the Notice of the World. Your merit I dare say has secured to...
40Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 11 April 1798 (Adams Papers)
...the Senate have directed to be published: the world will then see, that the unjust...
41Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 23 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
...worthy Girl of a deserving tender partner, and the world of a promiseing and usefull...
42Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 9 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
...is as liberal as I could expect I leave the world to judge how it is with respect to their...
43Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 May 1789 (Adams Papers)
such is the constitution of the world that much of Life must be spent in the same......the world...
44Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 11 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
...are for you alone: you know how the world would judge them, selfish and interested;...
45Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 10 October 1786 (Adams Papers)
...’s Memorial. It was first communicated to the World in an American Paper Publishd at Baltimore...
46Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 December 1782 (Adams Papers)
.... Uninteresting as this is to the rest of the World; it is sweet musick to those who...
47Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 21 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
...Honestus, who ever he is, has publishd to the world. I suspect one may apply to him, the...
48Abigail Adams’ Essay on American Politics, post 18 March 1801 (Adams Papers)
is the world furnishd with one more example, how the most important... ...of the world if not...
49Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 August 1782 (Adams Papers)
happy? The world say she is, but I believe she would say... ...a lesson the World will...
50Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 20 January 1787 (Adams Papers)
...fashionable Resort, where like the rest of the World I spent a fortnight in Amusement and...