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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.... |
71 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 September 1809 | 1809-09-01 | Thanks for yours of Aug. 25 and the Papers enclosed. They are very high and very warm. You... |
72 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 September 1809 | 1809-09-27 | I recd. in course yours of the 7th. Fox was a remarkable Character. I admire the Morsell of... |
73 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 8 October 1809 | 1809-10-08 | Bacon the great Bacon was fond of Paradoxes. What could The Old Hunks mean by Great Men having... |
74 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 October 1809 | 1809-10-25 | I received yesterday your new Edition on Animal Life and Madam read it in the evening to me and... |
75 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 December 1809 | 1809-12-21 | I thank you for the pleasing account of your Family in your favour of the 5th. As I take a lively... |
76 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 January 1810 | 1810-01-21 | Thanks for “the light and Truth” as I used to call the Aurora, which you sent me. You may descend... |
77 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 February 1810 | 1810-02-11 | Thanks for yours of the first and the two Packetts. Who are they who furnish the Aurora with Such... |
78 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 May 1810 | 1810-05-14 | What can I say to my Friend in return for his Letter of 26th of April? My Grief for the... |
79 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 June 1810 | 1810-06-28 | I acknowledge my fault in neglecting to answer two or three of your last favours. I now thank you... |
80 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 6 August 1810 | 1810-08-06 | Your Exhortation to Punctuallity and your Tic doulourouse had scarcely been read to my Family... |