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41 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 May 1807 | 1807-05-01 | I thank you, my dear Sir for the promptitude of your Answer to my last Letter, and for inclosing... |
42 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 May 1807 | 1807-05-21 | I return you, the Letter of Edward Smith. Time may or may not unriddle this whimsical Mystery. It... |
43 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 May 1807 | 1807-05-23 | I received at an Exhibition of Musick in our polite Village of Mount Woollaston, on thursday,... |
44 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 June 1807 | 1807-06-23 | I have received your favour of the ninth of this Month, and conveyed to Dr Tufts your Letter to... |
45 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 June 1807 | 1807-06-25 | John Bunjan, if he had written my last Letter to you would have called it an history of Gods... |
46 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, September 1807 | ≈1807-09-01 | I want to write an Essay.—Whom Shall I choose for a Model?—Plutarch, old Montaigne, Lord Bacon,... |
47 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 September 1807 | 1807-09-01 | It is rare, that a Letter of yours remains so long upon my Table unacknowledged as has that of... |
48 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 November 1807 | 1807-11-11 | I have, long before the receipt of your favour of the 31 of October, supposed that either you... |
49 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 December 1807 | 1807-12-28 | I thank you for your printed lecture on the humanity Economy and other virtues, which require of... |
50 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 January 1808 | 1808-01-18 | What a pitty it is; and indeed what a Shame it is, that We have not a Word in our language to... |
51 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 February 1808 | 1808-02-25 | Your two last Letters have puzzled me. In one you tell me that your Citizens are clamorous... |
52 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808 | 1808-04-18 | I have your favour of the 5th. My dear Mrs Adams bids me present her friendly regards to you and... |
53 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 20 June 1808 | 1808-06-20 | I give you this Title for the present only. I Shall Scarcely allow you to be a political, moral,... |
54 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 July 1808 | 1808-07-25 | Handsome Bradford, of thy City, allarmed me, the other day at our Athenaeum in Boston, by telling... |
55 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 31 August 1808 | 1808-08-31 | Instead of preparing for Commencement, I am answering your delicious Letter of the 24th.—But... |
56 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 8 September 1808 | 1808-09-08 | I will not Stand upon Ceremonies, with you, and wait for the Return of a Visit, or an Answer to... |
57 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 September 1808 | 1808-09-27 | That Rosicrusian Sylph, that Fairy Queen Mab, or that other familiar Spirit whatever it is, that... |
58 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 10 October 1808 | 1808-10-10 | The three Classes of People in Boston, who direct our public Affairs are the Same as those you... |
59 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 December 1808 | 1808-12-22 | I know not whether I shall make you smile or weep, excite your ridicule or pity or contempt when... |
60 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 January 1809 | 1809-01-23 | What Signify Clamours against Commerce Property Kings Nobles Demagogues Democracy, the Clergy... |
61 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 20 February 1809 | 1809-02-20 | When you informed me that Mr Cooper in his Life of Dr Priestly had ascribed to that Philosopher,... |
62 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 March 1809 | 1809-03-04 | If I could dream as much Wit as you, I think I should wish to go to Sleep for the rest of my... |
63 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 March 1809 | 1809-03-14 | Your Anecdotes are always extreamly Aprospros and none of them more So than those in your Letter... |
64 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 March 1809 | 1809-03-23 | I agree with Sidney as quoted in your favour of the 13th. That civil War is preferable to Slavery... |
65 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 April 1809 | 1809-04-12 | Thank you for your favor of the 1st. I might have quoted Job as well as St Paul, as a Precedent:... |
66 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 April 1809 | 1809-04-12 | I rejoice to find that Pensilvania has returned to reason and Duty in the affair of the Miss... |
67 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 June 1809 | 1809-06-07 | Your Letters are not apt to lie a month unacknowledged. That of May 5th. is before me since which... |
68 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 June 1809 | 1809-06-22 | A thousand thanks to Richard for his Auroras and ten thousand to you for your Letter of the 14th.... |
69 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 August 1809 | 1809-08-07 | I thank you for your favour of July 26 and its Enclosures. You have frequently, in a most... |
70 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 31 August 1809 | 1809-08-31 | If I were not as disinterested as a Patriot, I should answer every Line from you as soon as recd.... |