Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution: With a Memoir of Mrs. AdamsHurd and Houghton, 1875 - 424 páginas |
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... never meant to reach the ear of the multitude , the secret wishes , not blazoned forth to catch applause , the fluctuations between fear and hope that most betray the springs of action , these are the guides to character , which most ...
... never meant to reach the ear of the multitude , the secret wishes , not blazoned forth to catch applause , the fluctuations between fear and hope that most betray the springs of action , these are the guides to character , which most ...
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... never was sent to any school . I was always sick . Female education , in the best fam- ilies , went no further than writing and arithmetic ; in some few and rare instances , music and dancing . " Hence it is not un- reasonable to ...
... never was sent to any school . I was always sick . Female education , in the best fam- ilies , went no further than writing and arithmetic ; in some few and rare instances , music and dancing . " Hence it is not un- reasonable to ...
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... never trusts herself long with the terrors that sometimes intrude themselves upon her ; that " since the never - to - be - for- gotten day of his departure , the 14th of April , nothing had agi- tated her so much as the news of the ...
... never trusts herself long with the terrors that sometimes intrude themselves upon her ; that " since the never - to - be - for- gotten day of his departure , the 14th of April , nothing had agi- tated her so much as the news of the ...
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... never a man of large fortune . His profession , which had been a source of emolument , was now entirely taken away from him ; and his only dependence for the support of his family was in the careful husbanding of the means in actual ...
... never a man of large fortune . His profession , which had been a source of emolument , was now entirely taken away from him ; and his only dependence for the support of his family was in the careful husbanding of the means in actual ...
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... never to have forgotten it ; for at a much later period , when , in consequence of the French Revolution , the throne of England was thought to be in danger , she writes to her daughter with regret at the prospect for the country , but ...
... never to have forgotten it ; for at a much later period , when , in consequence of the French Revolution , the throne of England was thought to be in danger , she writes to her daughter with regret at the prospect for the country , but ...
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