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211 Adams, John [November 1758] ≈1758-11-01 Read a little in Van Muyden, and a little in naval Trade and Commerce. Rode as far as Smelt...
212 Adams, John Wednesday [1 November]. 1758-11-01 Read a little in Van Muyden, and a little in naval Trade and Commerce.
213 Adams, John Thurdsday [2 November]. 1758-11-02 Rode as far as Smelt Brook. Breakfasted, made my fire and am now set down to Van Muyden in...
214 Adams, John Sunday [5? November]. 1758-11-05 Drank Tea at Coll. Quincy’s. He read to me a Letter Coll. Gouch wrote him in answer to his...
215 Adams, John Monday [6? November]. 1758-11-06 Went to Town. Went to Mr. Gridleys office, but he had not returned to Town from Brookline. Went...
216 Adams, John [December 1758] ≈1758-12-01 Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he has. I have heard him...
217 Adams, John Tuesday. December 3 or 4 [i.e. 5?]. 1758-12-05 Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he has. I have heard him...
218 Adams, John [Marginalia in Winthrop’s Lecture on Earthquakes … ≈1758-12-01 “O! there is no getting out of the mighty hand of GOD!” This Exclamation was very popular, for...
219 Adams, John Monday. December 18th. 1758 1758-12-18 I this Evening delivered to Mr. Field, a Declaration in Trespass for a Rescue. I was obliged to...
220 Adams, John Wednesday [20 December]. 1758-12-20 I am this forenoon, resuming the Study of Van Muyden. I begin at the 99th Page.
221 Adams, John Thurdsday [21 December]. 1758-12-21 Yesterday and to day I have read loud, Tullius 4 Orations against Cataline. The Sweetness and...
222 Adams, John Tuesday, 26 of December. 1758-12-26 Being the Evening after Christmas, the Dr. and I spent the Evening with Mr. Cleverly and Major...
223 Adams, John Friday [29 December]. 1758-12-29 Let me see, if Bob P aine dont pick up this Story to laugh at. Lambert will laugh no doubt, and...
224 Adams, John Saturday [30 December]. 1758-12-30 How a whole Family is put into a Broil sometimes by a Trifle. My P. and M. disagreed in Opinion...
225 Adams, John [January 1759] ≈1759-01-01 Drank Tea at Coll. Quincies. Spent the Evening there, and the next morning. In the afternoon,...
226 Adams, John Wednesday [January 1759]. ≈1759-01-01 Drank Tea at Coll. Quincies. Spent the Evening there, and the next morning. In the afternoon,...
227 Adams, John Tuesday [January 1759]. ≈1759-01-01 Took a ride after Dinner to Gullivers Brook in Milton, returned home. Went over to Deacon...
228 Adams, John [February 1759] ≈1759-02-01 I intend a Journey to Worcester to morrow. How many observations shall I make on the People at...
229 Adams, John Feb. 1. 1759-02-01 I intend a Journey to Worcester to morrow. How many observations shall I make on the People at...
230 Adams, John Feb. 2. 1759. 1759-02-02 At Westtown, in Dr. Webbs Chamber at Hammonds. His landlady is an odd Woman. She seems good...
231 Adams, John Worcester Feb. 11. 1759. 1759-02-11 I have been in this Town a Week this night. How much have I improved my Health by Exercise, or my...
232 Adams, John [March 1759] ≈1759-03-14 Reputation ought to be the perpetual subject of my Thoughts, and Aim of my Behaviour. How shall I...
233 Adams, John March 14. 1759. 1759-03-14 Reputation ought to be the perpetual subject of my Thoughts, and Aim of my Behaviour. How shall I...
234 Adams, John March 18 [i.e. 19?]. Monday 1759-03-19 This whole Day is dedicated to walking, riding, talk, &c. No Reading to day. Twas Avarice, not...
235 Adams, John [April 1759] 1759-04-08 Spent the Evening at Captain Bracketts. A Case was proposed and my Opinion asked, which gave me...
236 Adams, John Sunday. April 8th. 1759. 1759-04-08 Spent the Evening at Captain Bracketts. A Case was proposed and my Opinion asked, which gave me...
237 Adams, John [Spring 1759.] ≈1759-04-01 The Road is walled on each side with a Grove of Trees. The stillness, silence, and the uniformity...
238 Adams, John [June 1759] 1759-06-29 Have this moment finished Woods new Institute of the Imperial or civil Law. It is a great Help in...
239 Adams, John June 29. 1759. 1759-06-29 Have this moment finished Woods new Institute of the Imperial or civil Law. It is a great Help in...
240 Adams, John [Summer 1759.] ≈1759-06-30 Mr. Wibirt . Ld. Chancellor Hardwick used at night to take off the Robes of his office and lay...
241 Adams, John [October 1759] ≈1759-10-01 The true End, which we ought to have in View, is that praeclarum ac Singulare quiddam, which...
242 Adams, John Extract of a Letter to Jona. Sewall, Octr. 1759 ≈1759-10-01 The true End, which we ought to have in View, is that praeclarum ac Singulare quiddam, which...
243 Adams, John 1759. ≈1759-01-01 Began Octr. 12th, in Pursuance of the foregoing Plan to transcribe from Brightlands english...
244 Adams, John [May 1760] ≈1760-05-26 Spent the Evening at Mr. Edd. Quincy’s, with Mr. Wibird, and my Cozen Zab. Mr. Quincy told a...
245 Adams, John Monday May 26th 1760. 1760-05-26 Spent the Evening at Mr. Edd. Quincy’s, with Mr. Wibird, and my Cozen Zab. Mr. Quincy told a...
246 Adams, John Tuesday [27 May]. 1760-05-27 At home. Read, in Naval Trade and Commerce.
247 Adams, John Wednesday [28 May]. 1760-05-28 Loitered the forenoon away upon this Question in Arithmetic. 3 men give 20 shillings for a...
248 Adams, John 1760. May 29. Thurdsday. 1760-05-29 Rose and breakfasted. Have done nothing yet to day, and God only knows what I shall do. The...
249 Adams, John May 30 1760. Friday. 1760-05-30 Rose early. Several Country Towns, within my observation, have at least a Dozen Taverns and...
250 Adams, John 1760 May 31th. Saturday 1760-05-31 Read in naval Trade and Commerce, concerning Factors, Consuls, Embassadors, &c., and the South...
251 Adams, John [June 1760] ≈1760-06-01 Read 2 Odes in Horace. Spent the Evening at the Coll’s. While we were at supper, the Coll....
252 Adams, John June 1st. Sunday. 1760-06-01 Read 2 Odes in Horace. Spent the Evening at the Coll’s. While we were at supper, the Coll....
253 Adams, John June 2d. Monday. 1760-06-02 Wasted the Day, with a Magazine in my Hand. As it was Artillery Election, it seemed absurd to...
254 Adams, John June 3rd. Tuesday. 1760-06-03 This Day has been lost in much the same, Spiritless manner.
255 Adams, John June 4th. Wednesday. 1760-06-04 Read nothing but Magazines as indeed an indisposition rendered me unfit for any Application....
256 Adams, John June 5th. Thurdsday. 1760-06-05 Arose late. Feel disordered. 8 o’Clock, 3 1/2 Hours after Sun rise, is a sluggard’s rising Time....
257 Adams, John June 1760. Friday 6th. June. 1760-06-06 Arose very late. A cold, rainy northeasterly storm, of several Days continuance. I have an ugly...
258 Adams, John Saturday. 7th. 1760-06-07 Arose late, again. When shall I shake off the shackells of morning slumbers, and arise with the...
259 Adams, John Sunday, 8th. 1760-06-08 Spent the Evening and Night at the Coll’s. in ill natured, invidious, Remarks upon Eb. Thayer,...
260 Adams, John Monday. 9th. 1760-06-09 Attended Major Crosbeys Court. Where Capts. Thayer and Hollis made their Appearance. Thayer had...