...in our Condition which to me particularly will be no improvement of it—I find myself already compelled to abridge my walk after dinner, and shall soon be obliged to give it up altogether—I hope we shall have no Winter Evenings to dispose of.
2From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 24 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
...but we are all recovering—Mrs A. this day rode out for the first time these three weeks. The atmosphere, political and physical is now cold and calm.—I have hitherto been spending my Winter-Evenings principally with Pythagoras and Plato, Demosthenes and Eschines. Perhaps you will ask what these Gentlemen have to do in Muscovy.—The great Athenian Orator, if his rival is to be credited, was by...
330th. Thursd. (Adams Papers)
...it pleases you; and every body is extremely polite to Strangers. Besides this they have very often private balls, which without being expensive are very well calculated to pass away agreably, the long winter evenings which they have in this country. Even the peasants, the people of the lowest class are very polite here, and that I believe no other country can boast of. In general I think...
426th. (Adams Papers)
...of my mind; he will make greater improvements in his three years, than I shall in mine. Before the cold weather came on, I expected to derive great advantage, from the long winter evenings which were approaching. In my imagination, I had written volumes, and read books without number. Yet so totally different has been the event, that I have written scarcely any thing except what...
5[January 1783 – January 1782] (Adams Papers)
...it pleases you; and every body is extremely polite to Strangers. Besides this they have very often private balls, which without being expensive are very well calculated to pass away agreably, the long winter evenings which they have in this country. Even the peasants, the people of the lowest class are very polite here, and that I believe no other country can boast of. In general I think...
6[January 1788] (Adams Papers)
...of my mind; he will make greater improvements in his three years, than I shall in mine. Before the cold weather came on, I expected to derive great advantage, from the long winter evenings which were approaching. In my imagination, I had written volumes, and read books without number. Yet so totally different has been the event, that I have written scarcely any thing except what...