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1 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 March 1809 | 1809-03-13 | When a young man I read Sidney upon government. In one of his Chapters, he agitates the following... |
2 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 1 April 1809 | 1809-04-01 | It would be well, if legislators were taught before they begin to legislate, that there are... |
3 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 May 1809 | 1809-05-05 | I am much pleased with the Specimen you have given of the Use of your Wings upon a certain... |
4 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 June 1809 | 1809-06-14 | My son Richard who has been a customer for the Aurora ever since he lived at the Jersey College,... |
5 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 July 1809 | 1809-07-26 | I enclose you three numbers of Duane’s papers that you may see in what manner the late news from... |
6 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 August 1809 | 1809-08-05 | “salus, honor et bonus Appetitus.” to use the Words of Molière— from Dear sir ever / Yrs MHi :... |
7 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 August 1809 | 1809-08-14 | I send you herewith some more of Col Duane’s papers. You will perceive in One of them proposals... |
8 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 25 August 1809 | 1809-08-25 | I enclose you four numbers of Duane’s paper. They contain a good deal of matter relative to the... |
9 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 September 1809 | 1809-09-06 | Although for many years past I have read nothing, but books upon medicine on week days, & upon... |
10 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 30 September 1809 | 1809-09-30 | “Great men (says Lord Bacon) have neither Ancestors nor posterity.” This, you and I know is not... |
11 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 17 October 1809 | 1809-10-17 | Who were the ancestors and posterity of Homer, Demosthenes, Plato and Aristotle? who were the... |
12 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 December 1809 | 1809-12-05 | Philadelphia Decemr: 5th: 1809 I picked up some time ago a magazine in which I met with a revival... |
13 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, January 1810 | ≈1810-01-01 | Accept of my thanks for your last letter.—I enclose you a few numbers of the Aurora. Shall we... |
14 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 1 February 1810 | 1810-02-01 | With this letter you will receive a bundle of Auroras, and another of the same size by the post... |
15 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 April 1810 | 1810-04-26 | In One of my letters written some time ago, I informed you that my eldest son had killed a... |
16 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 June 1810 | 1810-06-12 | Every moment of Amusement that I am able to afford you, is an Addition to my happiness, for which... |
17 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 June 1810 | 1810-06-20 | Wealth, respect and friendship! from your grateful and affectionate friend. War with the “great... |
18 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 July 1810 | 1810-07-04 | I have no objection to your knowing that by the “great hammer of the earth” I meant Napoleon.... |
19 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1810 | 1810-07-05 | In Contemplating the facility with which our Once chaste & vi mistress “American liberty” admits... |
20 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 September 1810 | 1810-09-08 | Mr Denny is the principal writer in the portfolio. He is precluded from introducing politicks... |
21 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 October 1810 | 1810-10-02 | Hate on, & call upon all the pedagouges in Massachussets to assist you with their hatred of me,... |
22 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 October 1810 | 1810-10-08 | I enclose you a small publication which contains an account of a new auxillary or palliative... |
23 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 December 1810 | 1810-12-21 | We read of Hurricane Months in the West Indies. Men of business are exposed to them no less than... |
24 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 10 January 1811 | 1811-01-10 | I thank you for you son’s pamphlet. Much as I loath political discussions of all kinds, I was... |
25 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 February 1811 | 1811-02-04 | All the Coins are in readiness; and Subject to your order. At present no Opportunity of sending... |
26 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 March 1811 | 1811-03-04 | Herewith th r ough the politeness of Mr Quincy you will receive the Coins for your son. I regret... |
27 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 13 June 1811 | 1811-06-13 | Act I. Scene I. Mr: Adams’s Study Mr A: Who is there? Dr: R—a friend— A—Walk in.—Ah! Rush is that... |
28 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 28 June 1811 | 1811-06-28 | Act 1. Scene 2nd. Mr Adams alone in his Study. Enter B Rush. A: Aye Rush is that you? What is... |
29 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 July 1811 | 1811-07-06 | Yrs. of June 21st. came safe to hand. I shall reply to it give you the echo of it in a few days.... |
30 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 July 1811 | 1811-07-20 | The 4th of July has been celebrated in Philada: in the manner I expected. The military men, and... |
31 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 August 1811 | 1811-08-06 | You may tell your friend Mr Cranch that I included my Correspondent among the men who were so... |
32 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 August 1811 | 1811-08-19 | It is possible Dr Franklins estate, when sold, in Order to be divided, may not produce the Sum... |
33 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 August 1811 | 1811-08-20 | The time cannot be very distant when you and I must both sleep with our fathers. The... |
34 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 September 1811 | 1811-09-04 | I am two letters in your debt. To the last I shall reply first. I am not satisfied with any one... |
35 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 September 1811 | 1811-09-20 | I shall begin my letter by replying to your daughters. I prefer giving my Opinion & Advice in you... |
36 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 18 October 1811 | 1811-10-18 | All my family rejoice with yours in the happy issue of the operation performed upon Mrs Smiths... |
37 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 11 November 1811 | 1811-11-11 | Alas! What a difference between your last, and former letters!—Instead of being charmed with the... |
38 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 9 December 1811 | 1811-12-09 | You have touched me in a sore place in your letter of the 4th instant. My Son Richard has... |
39 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 16 December 1811 | 1811-12-16 | Mr Jefferson and I exchange letters Once in six, nine or twelve Months. This day I received a few... |
40 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 December 1811 | 1811-12-26 | During the time Cobbett was abusing me in his newspaper to the great joy of a number of our tory... |
41 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 15 January 1812 | 1812-01-15 | “Arma, Cestusque”, parmamque “repono,” upon the offensive subject of one of my late letters to... |
42 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 February 1812 | 1812-02-12 | I did not require the anecdote you have communicated to me in your letter of last month to know... |
43 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 17 February 1812 | 1812-02-17 | I began a long & confidential letter to you two weeks ago upon the Subject of one of your late... |
44 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, April 1812 | ≈1812-04-01 | In giving the history of the Controversies in which I was engaged in the military hospitals, and... |
45 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 April 1812 | 1812-04-14 | I once met Mr Sawbridge at the house of his Sister Mrs McCaulay in London. In speaking of some of... |
46 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 May 1812 | 1812-05-05 | I return you the Copies of your letters to the Messrs Smith and thier Answers, with my Advice (as... |
47 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 May 1812 | 1812-05-19 | Your two letters of yesterday & to day have made me serious. They discover a profound knowledge... |
48 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 22 May 1812 | 1812-05-22 | You remind me by your wish for a copy of all the lyes that were published against you by your... |
49 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 June 1812 | 1812-06-02 | Stephen Gerard came to Philada from France About thirty years ago in the capacity of a Sailor.... |
50 | Rush, Benjamin | Adams, John | To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 June 1812 | 1812-06-04 | In Spite of a Speech made by my wife a few days Ago, “that you and I corresponded like two young... |