Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams |
Τι λένε οι χρήστες - Σύνταξη κριτικής
Δεν εντοπίσαμε κριτικές στις συνήθεις τοποθεσίες.
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
able Adams affectionate America appearance arrived attend beautiful believe Boston called carried character Congress continued Court dear desire dine distress dress engaged expected father fear feel five four France friends gave give given half hand happiness hear heart Heaven honor hope hour hundred idea JOHN JOHN ADAMS kind lady land late letter live London look manners means mind minister months nature never night obliged occasion passed peace person pleasure polite present Quincy reason received regard render respect scene seen sent side sister situation Smith soon spirit suppose taken tell thing thought tion told town virtue week whilst whole wish write written young
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 197 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Σελίδα 390 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Σελίδα 57 - This day be bread and peace my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done.
Σελίδα 193 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Σελίδα 426 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Σελίδα 8 - But what is bred in the bone will never be out of the flesh, (as Lord M.
Σελίδα 210 - Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty ! In wisdom hast Thou made them all.
Σελίδα 61 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Σελίδα 91 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Σελίδα 24 - I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in the province ; it always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας
| Τίτλος | Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams |
| Συγγραφέας | Abigail Adams |
| Επιμελητής | Charles Francis Adams |
| Συνεισφέρων | Charles Francis Adams |
| Έκδοση | 2 |
| Εκδότης | C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1840 |
| Πρωτότυπο από | η Δημόσια Βιβλιοθήκη της Νέας Υόρκης |
| Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις | 12 Ιουν. 2007 |
| Μέγεθος | 447 σελίδες |
| Εξαγωγή αναφοράς | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |