185114 Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a Clear, warm, morning But about 2 o’Clock came up a very hard shower, acompanied...
185215 Fryday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a Clear, warm morning, and so Continued.
185316 Saturday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a fair morning, but, not very warm.
185417 Sunday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, sunshiny-morning, heard Mr. Appleton expound those words in 1. Cor. 12 Chap, from 7,...
185518 Monday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a warm morning, at 11 ’Clock read Theses on this question, (viz) antliarum et...
185619 Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a very warm morning, at 11 Disputed on this question (viz) systema Copernicanum est...
185720 Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a most Charming and Beautifull Scene is this morning displayed. All nature wears a...
185821 Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a warm morning, and Something windy, about Sunset Came up a very hard shower...
185922 Fryday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a Charming, pleasant morning, read Dr. Niewentyts Demonstration Co n cerning the...
186023 Saturday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a Clowdy morning, and in the afternoon, Came up a Clowd of thunder and lightning....
186124 Sunday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a Cloudy morning, heard Mr. Cotton of New-town vociferate from the 19. of Proverbs...
186225. Monday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a very rainy, morning, at 11 o’Clock Disputed from the question assigned us last...
186326 Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a very rainy Day, as it has remained since yesterday-morning. By reason of my...
186427 Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge. A Clowdy morning. Afternoon, together with Lock, took a ride to Watertown-Bridge and...
186528. Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a Clowdy-Day.
186629 Fryday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a Clear morning. Heard the valedictory oration, pronounced, By Oliver. 2 o Clock set...
186729 [June 1753–January 1754?]. (Adams Papers)
Sat out from Boston, home where having tarried 7, or 8 Days I set out on a journey together with...
1868[February 1754.] (Adams Papers)
This winter, we had a vacation. In the winter of 1754 we had no snow at all save a smattering or...
1869March [1754]. (Adams Papers)
Beg inning of March Had a small flurry of snow. There was snow in Cambridge on 2 March and “a...
1870March 8th. (Adams Papers)
A Clowdy morning. I am now reading my lord Orrerys letters to his son Concerning Dr. Swift and...
1871[17? March 1754.] (Adams Papers)
Kept sabath at Cambridge. March about the middle.
1872March 18th. (Adams Papers)
In the Evening we had several very sharp flashes of lightning, attended with a Distant grumbling...
187319 [March 1754]. (Adams Papers)
This morning is beyond description, Beautyfull, the Skie bespangled with Clouds which shed a...
1874[On the Law of Nature and the Moral Sense among Animals and among Men, October–December 1758.] (Adams Papers)
Q uery . Has any Species of Animals, besides Mankind, ever given Proofs that they have any idea...
1875April 1st. 1754. (Adams Papers)
Then, Mr. Winthrop began a Course of Experimental Written in JA ’s experimental hand of...
1876[Notes on Civil Law, December 1758–January 1759.] (Adams Papers)
Sequestration is when two, or more, deposit a controverted Thing, with a 3d Person, on that...
1877[Rules for Determining the Excellence of a Language, October–December 1758.] (Adams Papers)
What are the Rules, Criteria, to determine the Merit or Excellence of a Language?—Suppose you was...
1878[Winthrop’s Lectures on Experimental Philosophy.] April 1st. 1754. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Winthrop began a series of Experimental Phylosophy , and in the 1st place he explained to us...
1879April 3d. 1754. (Adams Papers)
The second lecture, which was wholly taken up in explaining the Propertys of the Centers of...
1880April 5th. 1754. (Adams Papers)
The theory of the Ballance, scales, steel-yard &c. and all and the 3 species of lever’s continued...
1881April 6th. 1754. (Adams Papers)
The phaenomina of The nature of the Pulley, axis in peritrochaeo, and inclined Plane explained,...
1882April 8th. 1754. (Adams Papers)
The Theory of simple machines and in particular of the inclined plane, of the wedge and screw,...
1883April 9 1754. (Adams Papers)
Sir Isaac Newtons three laws of nature proved and illustrated, together with the application of...
1884April 10, 1754. (Adams Papers)
The theory of Centrifugal forces, continued; and aplyed to the Cases of the planets; and from...
1885April 11 1754. (Adams Papers)
Some thing’s observed concerning gravity, which encreases as you approach the Center of the earth...
1886[Letters to Three Friends on Studying Law, October–November 1758.] (Adams Papers)
My letters, for the future will come to you, not from a School House but from the Cell of an...
1887[On Some Friends Who Nourish Wounds in Their Hearts, October–December 1758.] (Adams Papers)
Vulnus alit Venis, et caeco carpitur igni. Alo, alere, alui, alitum, to nourish. Vulnus, a Wound...
1888[A Letter to Richard Cranch about Orlinda, a Letter on Employing One’s Mind, and Reflections on Procrastination, Genius … (Adams Papers)
What is Wisdom? Is it, to write dramatic Poetry, like Milton or Shakespear? Is it to write on...
1889[The Case of Field v. Lambert, December 1758.]
(Adams Papers)
The Mistery of Masonry not Freemasonry, comprehends the Plaistering of Walls and Cielings, as...
1890[A Letter to William Crawford Telling “How I Live,” October 1758.] (Adams Papers)
How it is with you I know not, but if I am rightly informed, I am yet alive and not dead. And to...
1891[The Case of Field v. Lambert, Continued, December 1758.]
(Adams Papers)
2 Horses—10th. of Octr. 1758. One Pound L.M. To answer J oseph F ield &c. in a Plea of Trespass,...
1892[On Indigence at Home, December 1758.] (Adams Papers)
haud facile emergunt quorum Virtutibus obstat res angusta domi. They will hardly emerge from...
1893[The Case of Field v. Lambert, Continued, December 1758.]
(Adams Papers)
For that the said Luke, on the 10th of Octr. last, at with force and Arms and against entered the...
1894[A List of Pleadings, October–December 1758.] (Adams Papers)
Bond to give Deed. † Trespass on the Case vs. Sherriff for the Default of his Deputy. † Case by...
1895[Notes on Probate Law, October–December 1758.] (Adams Papers)
Tis absurd, to for a Testator to say, after he has devised his Lands to one in fee, that they...
1896[A Letter to William Crawford, Describing a Visit to Boston, October–November 1758.] (Adams Papers)
Am returned from Boston, and according to my Promise sett down begining to write you a...
1897[Further Notes on Civil Law, December 1758–January 1759.] (Adams Papers)
Judicial stipulations are those which proceed from the mere Office of a Judge, as Surety vs....
1898[Shakespeare’s Characters and Figurative Language, October–December 1758.] (Adams Papers)
Shakespeare, in the Character of Lady Mackbeth, and of Gertrude, the Wife of old Hamlet, and...
1899[On a Petition from Braintree Troops Enlisted for the Expedition against Canada, December 1758–January 1759.] (Adams Papers)
The general Court agreed to raise 7000 men, to cooperate with his Majesties Forces, for the...
1900Richard Cranch and John Adams to Mary Smith, 30 December 1761 (Adams Papers)
I was at Boston yesterday and saw your Brother who was well. I have but a moments notice of an...