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John Adams
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What does John Adams mean?
noun
- 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826)
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He firmly believed in an aristocracy of mind, and told John Adams that he rejoiced that nature had created such an aristocracy.
Hutchinson--to use the adjective which John Adams was wont to apply to himself and other patriots to the manner born--was a Massachusettensian.
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For understanding the temper and ideals of America in the eighteenth century, no writings are of equal importance with those of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, especially the Diary of the former (Works of John Adams, 10 vols.
Mrs. Adams, wife of John Adams, afterward President of the United States, but at that time minister to England, one of the most gifted women of her time, speaking, in her very interesting letters from England, of her journey to the seashore, refers to Canterbury Cathedral, seen from her carriage windows, and which she evidently did not take the trouble to enter, as "looking like a vast prison."