"The young man comparing the conduct, speeches, and pursuits of his father with those of other men, the one watering the rational part of his soul, and the others the concupiscible and irascible, he delivers up the government within himself to a middle power, that which is irascible and fond of contention, and so he becomes a haughty and ambitious man."
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
7 entries in ESTC (1787, 1788, 1794, 1797).<br>
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<u>A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, by John Adams, LL.D. and a Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston.</u> (London: Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1787). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T143995">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;