Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848, المجلد 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1874 |
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الصفحة 342 - Ministers. The diplomatic party were seated almost all together, at a table opposite to the President, Mr. West. The dinner was tolerable. The toasts after dinner, The King, as the founder of the Academy ; The Prince Regent, its patron ; The Queen and Royal Family. Then, The Duke of Sussex and the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; The Marquis of Stafford and the Royal Institution; The Royal Society (Sir Joseph Banks, the President, was not present, and not toasted); The Earl of Aberdeen...
الصفحة 260 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not : for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
الصفحة 28 - To condemn vast regions of territory to perpetual barrenness and solitude that a few hundred savages might find wild beasts to hunt upon it, was a species of game law that a nation descended from Britons would never endure.
الصفحة 285 - He called his attention to the fact that Canada had been the source of disagreement in the past, and that it might be a source of "great and frequent animosities hereafter, unless guarded against by the vigilance, firmness, and decidedly pacific dispositions of the two governments.
الصفحة 101 - ... military reputation. He was for playing brag with the British Plenipotentiaries ; they had been playing brag with us throughout the whole negotiation; he thought it was time for us to begin to play brag with them. He asked me if I knew how to play brag. I had forgotten how. He said the art of it was to beat your adversary by holding your hand, with a solemn and confident phiz, and outbragging him. He appealed to Mr. Bayard if it was not. " Ay," said Bayard ; " but you may lose the game by bragging...
الصفحة 266 - ... said that they would give due attention to the letter that I should send him, but that Great Britain had explicitly manifested her intention concerning it ; that this subject, as I doubtless knew, had excited a great deal of feeling in this country, perhaps much more than its importance deserved; but their own fishermen considered it as an excessive hardship to be supplanted by American fishermen, even upon the very shores of the British dominions.
الصفحة 391 - Indies, adopted since the conclusion of the commercial convention of 3d July, 1815. In all of them, very heavy duties have been imposed upon the importation of American produce, even when carried in British ships. A heavy duty of exportation has been laid, in the province of...
الصفحة 327 - Immediately upon the receipt of your letters of the 16th of August, I obtained from the collector of that port an affidavit, stating that Thomas Taylor had in April last sworn that he was a citizen of the United States, and, as such, had 'cleared out the schooner Romp, which vessel the collector also declared, on oath, he believed to have cruised against the vessels of the King of Spain since that time. Upon which affidavit an intelligent justice of the peace of this city, well disposed upon the...
الصفحة 270 - Indians, and he is now come over here and has brought over some of those Indians. I sent for answer, that he had no authority whatever to make a Treaty offensive and defensive with Indians and that this Government would make no such Treaty. I have sent him word that I could not see him upon any such project — The Indians are here, in...
الصفحة 78 - There are several particulars in my present mode of life in which there is too much relaxation of self-discipline. I have this month frequented too much the theatre and other public amusements; indulged too much conviviality, and taken too little exercise. The consequence is that I am growing corpulent, and that industry becomes irksome to me. May I be cautious not to fall into any habit of indolence or dissipation ! " Clay's temperament, no doubt, enabled him to bear such pleasures with more fortitude...