"Again, when some desires retire, there are others akin to them, which grow up, and through inattention to the father's instructions, become both many and powerful, draw towards intimacies among themselves, and generate a multitude, seize the citadel or the soul of the youth, finding it evacuated of noble learning and pursuits, and of true reasoning, which are the best watchmen and guardians in the understandings of men beloved of the gods; and then false and boasting reasonings and opinions, rushing up in their stead, possess the same place in such a one."
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;