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To this the President, who hated Hamilton, objected, but Washington refused to take the command unless this wish was granted, and Adams had to give way. They stood in this relation when Washington died, and almost the last letter he penned was to this friend. On learning of the death, Hamilton wrote of "our beloved Commander-in-chief," "The very painful event ... filled my heart with bitterness.
"Well, that's more than I can go." "I'm no cannibal, myself," quoth Mr. Grigsby. "Fact is, I'd rather eat outside." "No, I'll have them take it away," opposed Mr. Adams; and amidst laughter the baked monkey was removed. They sat on the earthen floor and ate. Things tasted mighty good. The huts had no windows, and a dirt floor.
"With dozens of doctorates in everything from Astronomy to Zoology? I've never met ... I'm ever so glad to meet you, Doctor ?" "Adams. Andrew Adams. But I have only eight at the moment. Earned degrees, that is." "But what were you doing in this lifecraft? No, let me guess.
Henry knew the university well enough to know that the department of history was controlled by one of the most astute and ideal administrators in the world Professor Gurney and that it was Gurney who had established the new professorship, and had cast his net over Adams to carry the double load of mediaeval history and the Review.
I do not feel like eating now. Can I take a look at my mother's room?" "Why, yes. I suppose you know where it is?" "Certainly; I often visited her there when she was not feeling well," He passed out without another word, and was soon mounting the heavily-carpeted stairs. Once in the room, he closed the door tightly. Coming up softly after him, Adam Adams tried the door and found it locked.
"Well, it's no place for tenderfeet. That's what I'm always telling our neighbor Herrick, over at Casa Grande. Bob ever write you about him?" "Bob never writes me about anything except Emma," said the girl. "But Mr. Adams has been telling me about him. Does he live there all alone?" "No, he's got a Chinese boy to cook for him and a lot of greasers working on the place, but no white men around."
As President Adams asked: "How many presses, how many newspapers have been directed by vagabonds, fugitives from a bailiff, a pillory, or a halter in Europe?" Charges against these aliens were not confined to their political writings. The air was full of conspiracy.
Adams did not like to draw for these purposes, that he himself had no authority, and that the commissioners had not accompanied their complaints with any draft on that fund; so that the debt still remains unpaid, while the money is lying dead in Holland.
The opposite conception has been put in these clear-cut words by Herbert Adams Gibbons in a recent magazine, in speaking of the wisdom of Americans adopting a policy of disarmament: "Their country cannot afford to change from a wolf into a sheep unless a simultaneous change takes place in the others of the pack.
Long afterward, John Adams, who formed his estimate of Patrick Henry chiefly from what he saw of him in that Congress, and who was never much addicted to bestowing eulogiums on any man but John Adams, wrote to Jefferson that "in the Congress of 1774 there was not one member, except Patrick Henry, who appeared ... sensible of the precipice, or rather the pinnacle, on which we stood, and had candor and courage enough to acknowledge it."
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