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1760. June 26. Thurdsday.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

1760. June 26. Thurdsday.

Feel indifferently well after my yesterdays walk and sail. I have begun to read the Spirit of Laws, and have resolved to read that Work, thro, in order and with Attention. I have hit upon a Project that will secure my Attention to it, which is to write in the Margin, a sort of Index to every Paragraph.1

1. JA had at least sampled the Spirit of Laws earlier; see Summer 1759, above, and note 19 there.

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    “1760. June 26. Thurdsday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-01-02-0005-0002-0022. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 1, 1755–1770, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 142.]