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“Remember my tender love to little Abby; tell her she must write me a letter and inclose it in the next you send.” John Adams (as compiled/edited by Charles Francis Adams), Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail · observation
“It is the constitution under which we are born, that if we live long ourselves, we must bury our parents and all our elder relations, and many of those who are younger.” John Adams (as compiled/edited by Charles Francis Adams), Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail · observation
“I desire I may never again have the weakness to bring a child to Europe. They are infinitely better at home.” John Adams (as compiled/edited by Charles Francis Adams), Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail · vivid
“For my own part, I have this vice in so great horror, that I am not sure I could prevail with my conscience to secure myself from the most manifest and extreme danger by an impudent and solemn lie.” Michel de Montaigne, Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 02 · precept
“If falsehood had, like truth, but one face only, we should be upon better terms; for we should then take for certain the contrary to what the liar says: but the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand forms, and a field indefinite, without bound or limit.” Michel de Montaigne, Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 02 · insight
He calls lying an accursed vice that undermines human trust, notes that truth is single while falsehood has many forms, and contrasts sociable speech with silence.
my time very ambitious of the repute of this fine wit; but they do not see that if they have the reputation of it, the effect can no longer be. In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have other tie upon one another, but by our word. If we did but discover the horror and gravity of it, we should pursue it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes. I see that parents commonly, a…
Locke urges parents and educators to prevent undue associations in young children, since early life is most susceptible to lasting mental and emotional impressions that are often neglected.
16. A curious instance. Instances of this kind are so plentiful everywhere, that if I add one more, it is only for the pleasant oddness of it. It is of a young gentleman, who, having learnt to dance, and that to great perfection, there happened to stand an old trunk in the room where he learnt. The idea of this remarkable piece of household stuff had so mixed itself with the turns and steps of all his dances, that t…
John Adams continues his York letter of June 29, 1774, contrasts his hard, politically affected poverty with other lawyers’ success, and urges frugality, agriculture, and educating children to excel.
Bill, etc., etc., had never happened; but by the unfortunate interruption of my business from these causes, those indiscretions became almost fatal to me; to be sure, much more detrimental. John Lowell, at Newburyport, has built himself a house like the palace of a nobleman, and lives in great splendor. His business is very profitable. In short, every lawyer who has the least appearance of abilities makes it do in t…
John Adams writes from near Philadelphia, saying the journey across the colonies has been courteous and fruitful, that they will soon reach the "theatre of action," and urges Abigail to be prudent, frugal, and diligent in teaching their children virtue and French.
conveyance, for fear of foul play. But as we are now within forty-two miles of Philadelphia, I hope there to find some private hand by which I can convey this. The particulars of our journey I must reserve, to be communicated after my return. It would take a volume to describe the whole. It has been upon the whole an agreeable jaunt. We have had opportunities to see the world and to form acquaintances with the most …
John Adams reassures Abigail, emphasizing that religion consoles the bereaved and that human life includes burying parents; he mourns her mother and discusses his children’s education and their grandmother’s influence.
13 October, 1775. I this day received yours of the 29th of September and the 1st of October. Amidst all your afflictions, I am rejoiced to find that you all along preserve so proper and so happy a temper; that you are sensible "the consolations of religion are the only sure comforters." It is the constitution under which we are born, that if we live long ourselves, we must bury our parents and all our elder relation…
John Adams, dated 7 July 1776 (continuation), argues for early training in style through composition exercises, music, and grammar/rhetoric practice, and frames his own imperfect education as a reason to tutor his children.
composition, and as a genuine model of the epistolary style. There is a book, which I wish you owned,--I mean Rollin's "Belles Lettres,"--in which the variations of style are explained. Early youth is the time to learn the arts and sciences, and especially to correct the ear and the imagination, by forming a style. I wish you would think of forming the taste and judgment of your children now, before any unchaste sou…
From Amsterdam, John Adams writes to Abigail that Charles is at Bilbao with Major Jackson and Colonel Trumbull and will sail with Captain Hill; he expects no peace for years, defends his reputation against critics, and insists his children will serve the country even in poverty.
Amsterdam, 2 December, 1781. My dearest Friend,--Your favors of September 29 and October 21 are before me. I avoided saying anything about Charles to save you the anxiety which I fear you will now feel in its greatest severity a long time. I thought he would go directly home in a short passage in the best opportunity which would probably ever present. But I am disappointed. Charles is at Bilbao with Major Jackson an…
The passage argues that Plato’s education reforms exclude harmful poetry by teaching “false” early for moral purpose, especially replacing corrupt Homeric mythology with simple truths about God’s truth and goodness.
mind that which is there already. Education is represented by him, not as the filling of a vessel, but as the turning the eye of the soul towards the light. He treats first of music or literature, which he divides into true and false, and then goes on to gymnastics; of infancy in the Republic he takes no notice, though in the Laws he gives sage counsels about the nursing of children and the management of the mothers…
Evelyn mourns the death of his young son Richard in January 1658 after severe quartan ague, gives an extraordinary account of the child’s learning and piety, and links the grief to Evelyn’s writings and translations on children’s education and gardening.
given himself to literature, although his third work was published in 1656, _An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Cerus de Rerum Natura. Interpreted and made English Verse_. In January, 1658, heavy sorrow fell upon Evelyn by the death of his younger son, an infant prodigy, and a sad and wonderful example of a young brain being terribly overtaxed. ‘After six fits of a quartan ague with which it pleased God to v…
The section begins the next question (Q.105) arguing that household members’ relations—master/servant, husband/wife, father/son—were regulated with moderation, education, and limits to protect life and social order.
Philosopher remarks (Polit. ii, 6). Nevertheless, in matters pertaining to the grace of God, eunuchs were not discriminated from others, as neither were strangers, as already stated: for it is written (Isa. 56:3): "Let not the son of the stranger that adhereth to the Lord speak, saying: The Lord will divide and separate me from His people. And let not the eunuch say: Behold I am a dry tree." Reply Obj. 3: It was not…
Herodotus records additional Persian practices: admitting foreign customs, polygyny and concubinage, military excellence measured by many sons, education in riding/shooting/truth, and rules against excessive punishment for single causes.
due either to changelings or to children of adulterous birth; for, say they, it is not reasonable to suppose that the true parent would be killed by his own son. 138. Whatever things it is not lawful for them to do, these it is not lawful for them even to speak of: and the most disgraceful thing in their estimation is to tell an lie, and next to this to owe money, this last for many other reasons, but especially bec…