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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOHN ADAMS. John Adams, who had the distinguished honor of succeeding the illustrious Washington in the Presidency of the United States, was born at Quincy, Mass., then a part of the ancient town of Braintree, on the 19th of October, (O. S.) 1735. Discovering a strong taste for reading, at an early age, his father took great care to provide for his education. He accordingly became a member of Harvard College, where he graduated in 1755. At the close of his college career, he was for a time employed in instructing a common school, but soon commenced the study of law, in the office of Samuel Putnam, an eminent barrister at Worcester. By him he was introduced to Jeremiah Gridley, a lawyer of the first distinction, at that time attorney-general of Massachusetts. From the first interview they were friends, and Gridley took him at once into favor, and procured his admission to the bar. Soon after, with an air of mystery he led his young friend to a private chamber, and pointing to a book case, said, Sir, there is the secret of my eminence, and you may avail yourself of it as you please. In this place Mr. Adams labored night and day till he made himself master of the civil code. With a mind naturally inclined to political speculations, the propensity was naturally strengthened within him by the exciting character of the times. The first sparks of revolution were already breaking forth from the masses of our people, and even at the age of twenty years, Mr. Adams seems to have foreseen the great things that were 7 in reserve for the country. In 1755, while a resident at Worcester, he wrote a letter of which the following is an exstract. Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over into this new world for conscience sake: perhaps this apparently trivial incident may tra...
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