6 August 1830
adams-john10 Neal Millikan Recreation Family Relations (Adams Family) Family Finances (Adams Family)
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6. III.30. Friday.

Adams, Thomas B Mrs. Ann Adams Abigail Smith— Elizabeth Coombs— Joseph Harrod Adams Ann Harrod Louisa C Smith

The night being clear, I rose this morning before daylight to see if I could discern the rising of Sirius; but he is yet too near the Sun— I planted in the middle book-box a cross row of 12 white Currants— Bigelow marks two varieties of the Blackberry Rubus Villosus, and Rubus Frondosus, one of which he calls the Tall blackberry and the other the Leafy Raspberry, which he says have been confounded together. I have one of them at the corner of my garden but know not which it is— I shall mark its growth— Swam between noon and one with Lieutt. R. C. Buchanan— Tide unusually high. My brother and his family with Ann Harrod, and Louisa C. Smith dined with us. I rode home with my brothers wife and Louisa Smith— I gave my brother the copy of the Record, of the Lots set off to me, about ten Acres of woodland in the 600 Acres from my fathers Estate, by order of the Court of Common Pleas Norfolk County— The acceptance by the Court of the Report of the Commissioners, is not entered upon the record, which I thought left it imperfect— My brother agreed to go with me to Dedham next Monday— The acceptance must first be entered on the Records of the Court— Then copied by the Register of Deeds, on his Record; and then entered upon my copy; which is the quasi-deed, and my voucher of title— I read twelve Sections of the third book of de Finibus— This is a different dialogue from that of the two first Books— The interlocutors now, are Cicero and Cato of Utica, who are represented as meeting accidentally at a Cuman villa belonging to a boy named Lucullus, whose father had left him a large Library, and of whom Cato was the Guardian. Cicero goes there upon a day when theatrical games are exhibited at Rome—to look up some Treatises of Aristotle which he wished to consult: and meets there Cato surrounded by volumes of the Stoic writers— This naturally introduces a Conversation upon the Stoic doctrines, which at the request of Cicero, Cato fully sets forth— He begins by expressing an earnest wish that Cicero would adopt those doctrines, telling him with a flattering compliment, that he above all other men should maintain that Virtue is the only good. Cicero insists that the difference between the Peripatetics and Stoics was merely on words; Cato undertakes to shew great and essential differences between them.

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