John Adams, Revolutionary Writings 1755-1775, edited by Gordon S. Wood (New York: Library of America, 2011).
John Adams, Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783, edited by Gordon S. Wood (New York: Library of America. 2011) (From the Diary, May 17, 1779: "This Evening L. said that Mathematicians were never good Company. That Mathematics made a Man unhappy. That they never were good writers. "I said no nor the Lawyers--it had been often observed that Lawyers could not write. "L. said that Observation is not just, there are many other Instances of that besides you.--This looks like Art, but was too obvious. "I said, the Roman Lawyers were good Writers. Justinian Institutes were pure as Classics. Several French Lawyers had been fine Writers as Cochin, &c. [] and some English Lawyers as Bacon, Claredon, Couper, Blackstone. But it was a common Observation in England, and I found it as common in Paris, that Lawyer were generally bad Writers." Id. at 211, 212.).
John Adams, Writings from the New Nation 1784-1826, edited by Gordon S. Wood (New York: Library of America, 2016).
