Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Vol. 9 of 12: Comprising

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Vol. 9 of 12: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 (Classic Reprint)

MEMOIRS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. June 24th, 1833.-This day is one of those anniversaries which bring to my mind placid recollections. It is that of my arrival at Ghent. There is in the remembrance of the large half-year which I passed in that city a charm belonging to no other period of my life. The scenery through which I had passed from the painful day when I left my wife and son Charles at St. Petersburg; the deep anxiety and almost despondency with which I looked forward to the prospect of a failure in the object of the mission ; the kindness and courtesy which I experienced from the inhabitants of Ghent during the whole term of our residence there; the comfort and tranquillity and friendly hospitality which marked the mode of existence of the people; the trying struggles aud collisions with the British Commissioners and with my own colleagues which I underwent; the success beyond my most sanguine expectations which closed the negotiation, and the subsequent signal discomfiture of

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER XVII {Continued); PACE; The Twenty-Thiri> Congress3; CHAPTER XVIII The Twenty-Fourth Congress214; CHAPTER XIX The Twenty-Fifth Congress344

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Country	USA
Brand	Forgotten Books
Manufacturer	Forgotten Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
Model	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2018-08-24
EANs	9781440067204

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Vol. 9 of 12: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 (Classic Reprint)

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