John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to his son, John Quincy Adams (13 November 1816)
1810s
Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“ESSAY — A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.”
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
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