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101 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 30 September 1805 | 1805-09-30 | Although it is a gratification to my feelings to write to you and a much greater pleasure to... |
102 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 17 August 1812 | 1812-08-17 | Your favour of the Eighth, is another Monument to virtue and Piety, I would rather have your... |
103 | 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... |
104 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 13 February 1811 | 1811-02-13 | In your Favour of the 4th., according to my Judgment you have given up the whole Controversy. You... |
105 | 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... |
106 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 July 1806 | 1806-07-23 | I have two of your Letters to acknowledge, at once. The Treatise on the Spleen I have read, and... |
107 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 13 May 1812 | 1812-05-13 | Say what you will, that Man is in a poor case who is reduced to the necessity of looking to... |
108 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 August 1811 | 1811-08-28 | Your Letter of the 20th., My dear Friend, has filled my Eyes with Tears,—and, indurated Stoick as... |
109 | 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... |
110 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 10 February 1812 | 1812-02-10 | your Dream is out, and the Passage you read in the History that Richard was reading is come to... |
111 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 20 January 1813 | 1813-01-20 | Answer or rather acknowledge my Letters by half a dozen at a time. I have a number of Anecdotes... |
112 | 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... |
113 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 10 July 1812 | 1812-07-10 | I beg you would not consider yourself obliged to answer my Letters. Your Time is prescious, mine... |
114 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, with Postscript by … | 1778-02-08 | Two Days ago, I was favoured with your polite and elegant Letter of January 22. I have received... |
115 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 September 1811 | 1811-09-12 | Suum cuique decus Posteritas rependit, has some Truth in it and you have addressed several... |
116 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 September 1812 | 1812-09-04 | Little can be added to your distinctions of Principles and delineation of Parties, in your Letter... |
117 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 February 1805 | 1805-02-27 | I have just now received your friendly letter of the 19th. and rejoice with you Sincerely in the... |
118 | 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... |
119 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 11 November 1806 | 1806-11-11 | When I recd your favour of the 24. Oct, I Soberly expected a grave dissertation on the... |
120 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 June 1811 | 1811-06-21 | As Charité commens par soi même, or as We more elegantly express it, as Charity begins at home, I... |
121 | 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... |
122 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 July 1812 | 1812-07-18 | Your Letter of the 8th, my dear Friend is pleasing and it is painfull to me, in a high degree.... |
123 | 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... |
124 | 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... |
125 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 December 1810 | 1810-12-27 | It was but yesterday that I was able to obtain the inclosed Review of Works of Mr Ames, which you... |
126 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 December 1806 | 1806-12-22 | I thank you for yours of the twenty fifth of November. I was in hopes you would have explained to... |
127 | 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... |
128 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 29 January 1813 | 1813-01-29 | You have enough of Smiths letters e’er this and Waterhouse’s too, all which you will be so good... |
129 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 17 January 1811 | 1811-01-17 | Your favour of the 10th, is just come from the Post Office. I thank you for reading the Pamphlet,... |
130 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 November 1779 | 1779-11-04 | Your favours of Octr. 12 and 19 are before me. I should not have left the first Seven days... |
131 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 July 1812 | 1812-07-19 | Your delightful Letter of the 13th received Yesterday now in turn must receive my grateful... |
132 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 August 1812 | 1812-08-01 | We have been in such hurry of late that if I have mentioned your Letter of 18th of June, I have... |
133 | 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... |
134 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 December 1811 | 1811-12-19 | When I was a Boy, not ten years old, I heard Smith Richard Thayer, a great Authority, say “When... |
135 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 January 1806 | 1806-01-25 | The new Edition of your medical Works, mentioned in your favour of the sixth of this month, have... |
136 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 January 1811 | 1811-01-18 | As I am never weary of Writing to you, because I write always without thinking, I am not sorry to... |
137 | 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... |
138 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 April 1790 | 1790-04-04 | The Tories as you observe in your friendly Letter of 24 Feb. are more attached to each other;... |
139 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 21 December 1812 | 1812-12-21 | Never! Never be weary, in the Ways of well dreaming! any one of your Dreams worth to the Moralist... |
140 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 24 July 1789 | 1789-07-24 | I have persecuted you, too much with my Letters.— I beg you would give yourself no trouble to... |
141 | 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:... |
142 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 15 February 1813 | 1813-02-15 | All that I have written you, hitherto, upon the history of the Original of our Navy, was from... |