![]() ![]() ![]() Add but to these natural perfections the advantages of acquired learning what polite and charming creatures would they prove whilst their external Beauty does the office of a Crystal to the Lamp not shrowding but discloseing their Brighter intellects. Nature is seldom observed to be niggardly of her choisest Gifts to the Sex, their Senses are generally as quick as ours, their Reason as nervious, their judgment as mature and solid. John Adams was born in Braintree (now Quincey), Massachusetts, situated ten miles from Boston. If women says the writer are to be esteemed our Enemies, methinks it is an Ignoble Cowardice thus to disarm them and not allow them the same weapons we use ourselves, but if they deserve the title of our Friends a tis an inhumane Tyranny to debar them of priviliges of ingenious Education which would also render their Friendship so much the more delightfull to themselves and others us. The letters not only reveal the depth of their relationship but also detail the sacrifices, the deprivations, and the emotions of war and separation in a. Introduction: John Adams (1735-1826) & Abigail Adams (1744-1818). ![]() I cannot forbear transcribing a few Generous Sentiments which I lately met with upon this Subject. You need not be told how much female Education is neglected, nor how fashonable it has been to ridicule Female learning,tho I acknowledge it my happiness to be connected with a person of a more generous mind and liberal Sentiments. ![]()
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