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...
23121st. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Thaxter stop’d about half an hour, this morning, on his return from Hingham, where he has...
23222d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Tread well, preach’d in the forenoon from Matthew XI. 15 “he that hath ears to hear, let him...
23323d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Cranch went this morning to Boston. His Son, went with him, and will proceed to Haverhill,...
23424th. (Adams Papers)
Went down to my uncle Adams’s in the afternoon, and spent a couple of hours. Finished reading...
23525th. (Adams Papers)
Thayer and Charles returned from Scituate this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard came to pass the...
23626th. (Adams Papers)
We have been left alone again this day. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard went away this morning. I employ...
23727th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Read came here in the afternoon, to spend a day. Though he cannot entirely lay aside the...
23828th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Read set out in the afternoon to return to Cambridge. In the Evening Mr. Cranch returned from...
23929th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Wibird preach’d all day from John I, 47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him,...
24030th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d all the morning. Mr. Cranch went to Boston and Charles with him: he return to Cambridge....
24131st. (Adams Papers)
Miss B. Palmer, came from Germantown, this afternoon, to spend the night here. We prepared to...
242[November 1786] (Adams Papers)
We returned through Boston, to Cambridge. The road from Charlestown was full of carriages coming...
243Wednesday November 1st. 1786. (Adams Papers)
We returned through Boston, to Cambridge. The road from Charlestown was full of carriages coming...
2442d. (Adams Papers)
Attended the court in the forenoon, and afternoon, but there were no causes of any consequence...
2453d. (Adams Papers)
Reading, Reid on the Mind. This author in some places pleases me very much; but in others he is...
2464th. (Adams Papers)
Charles and Cranch went to Boston. Wrote part of my forensic; and as I was obliged to support a...
2475th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Hilliard preach’d in the morning from Matthew XXIV 13. But he that shall endure unto the end,...
2486th. (Adams Papers)
We recited this morning for the first time in Ferguson’s astronomy. The part which I have read is...
2497th. (Adams Papers)
We had a lecture from Mr. Wigglesworth in the afternoon, and in the evening the weather being...
2508th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Williams gave a public astronomical lecture this afternoon, relating to the different...