Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 2
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[Titlepage]
CFA
[Titlepage]
CFA
Titlepage
Diary
17 October 1828
5 September 1829.
My Marriage.1
“What is a man,
If his chief good, and market of his time,
Be but to sleep, and feed? a beast, no more.
Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse
Looking before, and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To rust fust in us unus’d.”
Hamlet.
1.
Titlepage of D/CFA/7, from which the following entries through 3 September 1829 (ending the present volume) derive. See the descriptive listing of CFA’s MS diaries in the Introduction. CFA’s concluding date “5 September 1829” is his own error.