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...
211Sunday October 1st. 1786. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Paine, preached here, in the forenoon from Acts IV. 12. Neither is there salvation in any...
2122d. (Adams Papers)
We recite this week to Mr. Burr the new Tutor; but he was absent this Day. The A B Society met...
2133d. (Adams Papers)
A number of the Students have been very ill in consequence of eating cheese from the Buttery. It...
2144th. (Adams Papers)
We had this morning a forensic given out, to be read next week, on the Question whether the...
2155th. (Adams Papers)
A very bad cold, has prevented my studying much, this day. In the morning we finished reciting in...
2166th. (Adams Papers)
A stormy day. Very unwell, especially in the former part of the Day. I have had several Times...
2177th. (Adams Papers)
I have been studying almost all day what to write for a Forensic; the subject is so copious, that...
2188th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard preached in the morning from Ephesians V. 1. Be ye therefore followers of God, as...
2199th. (Adams Papers)
No reciting. Mr. Burr is engaged to preach several Sundays at Hingham, and does not return early...
22010th. (Adams Papers)
The ΦBK. met at Burge’s chamber at 11 o’clock. Beale and Burge read dissertations. The extempore...
22111th. (Adams Papers)
The Class from 9 to near twelve were reading their forensic; I read in the affirmative as...
22212th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Burr gave out this morning a subject for our next forensic. “Whether an extorted promise be...
22313th. (Adams Papers)
Had a great deal of fuss about some Tea spoons, which I lost some days since. I have found most...
22414th. (Adams Papers)
Went to Boston, in order to get some books which were sent by Callahan; but I could not get them:...
22515th. (Adams Papers)
Was excused from attending meeting this day: being somewhat unwell. Finished the first volume of...
22616th. (Adams Papers)
We recite two or three times more, in s’Gravesande’s, but next quarter, we shall begin upon...
22717th. (Adams Papers)
Charles and my Cousin, went away in the morning, immediately after commons. Tom, went to Boston,...
22818th. (Adams Papers)
Loitered away, a great part of my Time, as I most commonly do in vacation Time. I intend however...
22919th. (Adams Papers)
Spent the day, in alternately reading, writing, walking, and playing. This is dull life, and...
23020th. (Adams Papers)
My two brothers were gone all the morning on a gunning party. My cousin and I went, in the...