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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 311 5 Browse Search
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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 94 8 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 68 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 54 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 44 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 41 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 38 6 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: Franklin (search)
rom abroad, he becomes in Philadelphia almost as good a Queen Anne's man as Swift or Defoe. His scientific investigations bring him into correspondence with fellow-workers in England, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, and Spain. Entering upon public life, he is forced into co-operation or conflict with the leading politicians, diplomats, and statesmen of Europe. In his native land he has known men like Cotton Mather, Whitefield, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin West, Ezra Stiles, Noah Webster, Jay, Adams, Jefferson, and Washington. In England, where his affections strike such deep root that he considers establishing there his permanent abode, he is in relationship, more or less intimate, with Mandeville, Paine, Priestley, Price, Adam Smith, Robertson, Hume, Joseph Banks, Bishop Watson, Bishop Shipley, Lord Kames, Lord Shelburne, Lord Howe, Burke, and Chatham. Among Frenchmen he numbers on his list of admiring friends Vergennes, Lafayette, Mirabeau, Turgot, Quesnay, La Rochefoucauld-Liancou
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 8: American political writing, 1760-1789 (search)
survived only in notes taken at the time by John Adams, Works, II, 124 note, 521-525; X, 246-249, oison, or to sell them to enemies for slaves? Adams had read his history with a Puritan obsession,is or the intellectual and religious bias of John Adams, Dickinson reviewed, earnestly and directly,brilliant young lawyer, who, in company with John Adams, had chivalrously defended the British soldiuence of Massachusettensis was undertaken by John Adams, who, early in 1775, published in the Bostontle of Lexington (19 April, 1775) intervened. Adams did not lack legal knowledge or logical proficnot as a writer or political philosopher, that Adams made his worthiest contribution to the America, did much to prepare the way. Jefferson and John Adams were absent from the country on diplomatic sa, in separate editions, the first volume of John Adams's Defence of the constitutions of governmentthe advocate rather than of the expositor, did Adams no credit; while his frank criticisms of some [3 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
burlesque account of their nocturnal adventures. Associated with Byles and Green in Poems by several hands was the Rev. John Adams, a young clergyman of Boston who died in 1740 at the age of thirty-five. Five years after his death his friends puther and one on Jane Turell. All these are written in the heroic couplet but in a diction more natural than Pope's. That Adams knew Milton's poems is apparent in his Address to the Supreme being. Indeed these poems, though pervaded by the Puritan educational system and the ignorance of the clergy which is still interesting. After studying law in the office of John Adams in Boston, he returned to New Haven to practise, and in 1776 published the first two cantos of McFingal. Published asn surpassing that of any of his contemporaries. At Harvard he was known by his occasional poems, and his patriotic song Adams and liberty made him a celebrity. Though he practised law, he gave most of his time to the theatre and to poetry. Soon
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
nt of the New invented Pennsylvanian fire places, an, 96 Achilles, 268 Adair, James, 193 Adams, Charles, 220 Adams, John, 91, 125, 129, 131, 137-138, 144, 146, 147, 172 Adams, Rev., John, 160-161 Adams, Samuel, 30, 132, 144 Adams andAdams, Rev., John, 160-161 Adams, Samuel, 30, 132, 144 Adams and liberty, 179 Addison, 94, 109, I12, 113, 1x6, l18, 159, 233, 234, 237, 238, 244, 254, 256 Address to the Freemen of South Carolina, an, 148 Address to the House of burgesses, 142 Address to the people of the state of New York, an (Joh Poem on the happiness of America, 169 Poems by several hands (1744), 159, 160 Poems on several occasions, etc. (Rev. John Adams), 160 Poems on several occasions (Evans), 177 Poet, the, 269 n. Political balance, the, 182 Pomfret, John 263, 264, 267, 268, 279, 332, 337 Works (Poe), 230 n. Works in prose and verse (Paine, R. T.), 179 Works of John Adams, 125 n., 129 n., 147 n. Works of Laurence Sterne M. A., the, 284 Wrangham, Archdeacon, 213 Wright, Fanny, 190