1Abigail Adams to William Smith, 29 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
all these things serve to wean us from the world & will lead our minds I hope to place our trust, not in Man, not in an Arm of flesh, but look to the great first cause, with Humble hope, and trembling pinions Soar to the first...
2Abigail Adams to William Smith, 4 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
...Strugle yet to encounter. the astonishing success of the French in overturning every Country into which they have carried their Arms, has not satisfied them, but only proved a new stimulous to their Greedy ambition of becomeing Masters of the World; England alone appears capable of making a stand against them. Ireland appears to be in a state,