Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States: With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New YorkDerby, Miller, 1849 - 404 páginas This book is a biography of John Quincy Adams, United States Senator, Congressman from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. |
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... talents and achievement as to lend renown to the office of President of the United States , pursued the study of the law under the incon- veniences resulting from his occupation as an instruc- tor in a Grammar School . John Adams was an ...
... talents and achievement as to lend renown to the office of President of the United States , pursued the study of the law under the incon- veniences resulting from his occupation as an instruc- tor in a Grammar School . John Adams was an ...
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... talents , he was not looking for , nor expecting , political preferment . These facts ap- pear in the following passages from his diary , written at that time ; and which , moreover , will be found to contain certain rules of action for ...
... talents , he was not looking for , nor expecting , political preferment . These facts ap- pear in the following passages from his diary , written at that time ; and which , moreover , will be found to contain certain rules of action for ...
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... talents of professional men , at an early period of their lives , has not hitherto been peculiarly indulgent to me . But if to my own mind I inquire whether I should , at this time , be qualified to receive and derive any benefit from ...
... talents of professional men , at an early period of their lives , has not hitherto been peculiarly indulgent to me . But if to my own mind I inquire whether I should , at this time , be qualified to receive and derive any benefit from ...
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... talents are not those which open the most pleasing or the most repu- table avenue to fame . I have had some transient thoughts of un- dertaking some useful literary performance , but the pursuit would militate too much at present with ...
... talents are not those which open the most pleasing or the most repu- table avenue to fame . I have had some transient thoughts of un- dertaking some useful literary performance , but the pursuit would militate too much at present with ...
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... talent , and not the result . of importunity , or the payment of party services . Mr. Adams was at this time in the twenty - seventh year of his age - a younger man , undoubtedly , than has since ever been selected by our Government to ...
... talent , and not the result . of importunity , or the payment of party services . Mr. Adams was at this time in the twenty - seventh year of his age - a younger man , undoubtedly , than has since ever been selected by our Government to ...
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