1812d. (Adams Papers)
I have been too busily employ’d, to have much to say. Study, does not afford, a rich source for...
1823d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard gave us a Sermon in the forenoon from Isaiah LV. 6. Seek ye the Lord while he may be...
1834th. (Adams Papers)
We were to have had a Class meeting, by Rights: but no one thought to obtain Leave. As we have no...
1845th. (Adams Papers)
Anniversary of the ΦBK, Society. The members were, on that account excused from reciting. At 11....
1856th. (Adams Papers)
This day the annual Dudleian Lecture was preach’d by Mr. Symmes of Andover; the subject was the...
1867th. (Adams Papers)
No reciting. Cranch went to Boston. The Commonwealth is in a State of considerable fermentation....
1878th. (Adams Papers)
I went in the evening to see Mrs. Dana; there was a large Company there, and I escaped as soon as...
1889th. (Adams Papers)
The inferior Court, is to sit according to Law, next Tuesday, at Concord; it is said, that the...
18910th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Porter the Minister of Roxbury, preach’d here; he is a pretty good Speaker. His discourse in...
19011th. (Adams Papers)
We recite again to Mr. Read this week, and shall probably the whole of this Quarter. I finished...
19112th. (Adams Papers)
Rain’d hard almost all day. We had a Class meeting, after Prayers for determining the matter,...
19213th. (Adams Papers)
Finished my Trigonometry. Immediately after Prayers in the Evening, the military Company,...
19314th. (Adams Papers)
White went to Haverhill. I determined with Little upon two Pieces, to publish in the next...
19415th. (Adams Papers)
I copied a part of Fiske’s Oration, upon Patriotism, to be printed in the next Boston Magazine,...
19516th. (Adams Papers)
Copied off my Forensic for the Exhibition, and prepared it, to carry for Approbation to the...
19617th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard preach’d in the forenoon from Isaiah V. 12. But they regard not the work of the...
19718th. (Adams Papers)
I have been so unwell all Day, that I have not been able to attend to any Studies at all. We had...
19819th. (Adams Papers)
Unwell again, so that I have not been able to Study. I have felt a kind of dizziness, which very...
19920th. (Adams Papers)
This Evening, immediately after prayers, the President inform’d us that the Government, and...
20021st. (Adams Papers)
I really do not know what I have done this day. I am always sensible, that what with one trifle...
20122d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Read sent for me this morning, informed me, that the Exhibition was to come on next Tuesday;...
20223d. (Adams Papers)
I have done nothing all this Day. Every Day thus lost doubles the obligation of improving the...
20324th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard gave us an occasional Sermon, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Warland, a young Man,...
20425th. (Adams Papers)
Almost all this Day was employ’d in preparing for the exhibition. The musical Parts take up some...
20526th. (Adams Papers)
The exhibition began at about a quarter after 12, with, the Latin Oration by Bridge, it was a...
20627th. (Adams Papers)
I feel quite indolent as I have finally got rid of the affair which has kept me employ’d this...
20728th. (Adams Papers)
We had a meeting of the ΦBK, in the morning at Little’s Chamber. Chandler read a Dissertation,...
20829th. (Adams Papers)
It is a most unhappy Circumstance, for a Man to be very ambitious, without those Qualities which...
20930th. (Adams Papers)
I see not why I should not relate what anecdotes I can collect concerning myself; and why I...
210[October 1786] (Adams Papers)
Mr. Paine, preached here, in the forenoon from Acts IV. 12. Neither is there salvation in any...