LXIII
- Towards sending of Ellsworth
- and the pardon of Fries
- 25 years in office, treaties put thru and loans raised
- and General Pinckney, a man of honour
- declined to participate
- or even to give suspicion of having colluded
- deficiency in early moral foundations (Mr Hamilton’s)
- they effect here and there simple manners
- true religion, morals, here flourish
- i.e. Washington 4th March 1801
- toward the newly created fount of supply (Mr Jefferson)
- in ardour of hostility to Mr Jefferson
- to overlook a good deed
- If Pickering cd/ mount on
- wd/ vote for J. Adams
- whose integrity not his enemies had disputed
- ... rights
- diffusing knowledge of principles
- maintaining justice, in registering treaty of peace
- changed with the times, and not
- forgetting what had suffered
- by the sedition laws
- Obt. svt. Chas Holt
- Honoured father
- (signed John Quincy Adams (in full)
- 1825 (when elected)
- Scott’s fictions and even the vigorous and exaggerated
- poetry of Ld/ Byron
- when they wd/ not read him anything else
- property EQUAL’D land in J. A.’s disposition
- From Fancy’s dreams to active Virtue turn
- The cats thought him (Franklin) almost a catholic
- The Church of England laid claim to him as one of ’em
- Presbyters thought him half presbyterian
- friends, sectaries,
- Eripuit caelo fulmen
- and all that to ditch a poor man fresh from the country
- Vol Two (as the protagonist saw it:)
- No books, no time, no friends
- Not a new idea all this week
- even bagpipe not disagreeable
- for amusement reading her (Mrs Savil) the Ars Amandi
- 1758, around half after three, went to the Court House
- With Saml Quincy and Dr Gordon....
- And saw the most spacious room and
- finest line
- of ladies I ever did see, Gridley
- enquired my method of study
- and gave me Reeve’s advice to his nephew
- read a letter he wrote to Judge Leighton: follow the study
- rather than gain of the law, but the gain
- enough to keep out of the briars, So that I
- believe no lawyer ever did so much business
- for so little profit as I during the 17 years that I practised/
- you must conquer the INSTITUTES
- and I began with Coke upon Littleton
- greek mere matter of curiosity (in the law)
- to ask Mr Thatcher’s concurrence
- whole evening on original sin and the
- plan of the universe
- and lastly on law, he thinks that the country is full
- Van Myden editio terza design of the book is
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exposition
- of technical terms
- as of Hawkins’ Pleas of the Crown. Bracton,
- Britten, Fleta on Glanville, must dig with my fingers
- as nobody will lend me or sell me a pick axe.
- Exercises my lungs, revives my spirits opens my pores
- reading Tully on Cataline quickens my circulation
- Ruggles grandeur in boldness of thought honour contempt
- of meanness
- was practising law and running a tavern in Sandwich
- died Novascotia 1788 and a tory.
- Read one book an hour
- then dine, smoke, cut wood
- in quella parte
- dove sta memora, Colonel Chandler not conscious
- these crude thoughts and expressions
- are catched up and treasured as proof of his character.
- Not finding them (Rhine grapes slips) in that city
- sends to a village 70 miles away
- and then sends two packets
- one by water and lest that miscarry, the other by post
- to Mr Quincy to whom he owes nothing
- and with whom he is but little acquainted
- purely for the purpose of
- propagating Rhine wine in these provinces
- (one up to Franklin) I
- read Timon of Athens, the manhater
- must be (IRA must be) aroused ere the mind be
- at its best
- la qual manda fuoco
- dirty and ridiculous litigations been multiplied
- proverb; as litigious as Braintree
- fraud and system of bigotry
- on which papal usurpations are founded, monument of priestly ambition
- guile wrought into system
- ‘Our constitution’ ‘every man his own monarch’
- all these boasting speeches have heard (1760)
- and never failed to raise a hoarse laugh
- An inferior officer in Salem
- whose name was Cockle petitioned
- the justices for a Writ of Assistance
- to break open ships, shops, cellars and houses
- Mr Sewall expressed doubt of legality,
- Oxenbridge Thayer with Otis,
- a contest appeared to be opened.