The Portable John AdamsPenguin, 29.06.2004 - 576 Seiten In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of his diary and autobiography, and selections from his rich correspondence with this wife, Abigail, Thomas Jefferson, and others. The Portable John Adams also features his most important political works: “A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law,” “Thoughts on Government,” “A Defense of Constitutions,” “Novanglus,” and “Discources in Davila.” There is no finer introduction to the protean genius of this seminal American philosopher. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... consider what scholars have only recently begun to write about: the parallels between the Counterenlightenment of the eighteenth century and the postmodernism of the late twentieth century, between two schools of thought separated by ...
... consider what scholars have only recently begun to write about: the parallels between the Counterenlightenment of the eighteenth century and the postmodernism of the late twentieth century, between two schools of thought separated by ...
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... consider the political founding of the country. But one of Miller's many brilliant students, Henry F. May, wrote with discernment on Adams in The American Enlightenment (New York: Oxford, 1976). The reason Adams was marginalized in ...
... consider the political founding of the country. But one of Miller's many brilliant students, Henry F. May, wrote with discernment on Adams in The American Enlightenment (New York: Oxford, 1976). The reason Adams was marginalized in ...
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... the evening very sociably at Mr. Putnam's. Several observations concerning Mr. Franklin,d of Philadelphia, a prodigious genius, cultivated with prodigious industry. 15. Monday. I sometimes in my sprightly moments consider myself,
... the evening very sociably at Mr. Putnam's. Several observations concerning Mr. Franklin,d of Philadelphia, a prodigious genius, cultivated with prodigious industry. 15. Monday. I sometimes in my sprightly moments consider myself,
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... consider which of my pupils will turn out in his future life a hero, and which a rake, which a philosopher, and which a parasite, than change breasts with them, though possessed of twenty laced waistcoats and a thousand pounds a year ...
... consider which of my pupils will turn out in his future life a hero, and which a rake, which a philosopher, and which a parasite, than change breasts with them, though possessed of twenty laced waistcoats and a thousand pounds a year ...
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... consider the vast and incomprehensible extent of the material universe, those myriads of fixed stars that emerge out of the remote regions of space to our view by glasses,—and the finer our glasses the more of these systems we discover ...
... consider the vast and incomprehensible extent of the material universe, those myriads of fixed stars that emerge out of the remote regions of space to our view by glasses,—and the finer our glasses the more of these systems we discover ...
Inhalt
DIARY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS Chapter 3 EARLIEST WRITINGS | |
A DISSERTATION ON CANON AND FEUDAL LAW Chapter 5 THOUGHTS ON GOVERNMENT Chapter 6NOVANGLUS Chapter 7 A DEFEN... | |
DISCOURSES ON DAVILA Chapter 9 CORRESPONDENCE WITH ROGER SHERMAN AND JOHN TAYLOR | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS WITH THOMAS JEFFERSON | |
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