| John Quincy Adams - 1875 - 556 pages
...to cherish ? My mother was an angel upon earth. She was a minister of blessing to all human beings within her 'sphere of action. Her heart was the abode of heavenly purity. She had no feelings but of kindness and beneficence; yet her mind was as firm as her temper was mild... | |
| 1878 - 444 pages
...died in 1818 : " My mother was an angel upon earth. She was a minister of blessing to all human beings within her sphere of action. Her heart was the abode of heavenly purity. She had no feelings but of kindness and beneficence ; yet her mind was as firm as her temper was mild... | |
| Mabel Bartlett Peyton, Lucia Kinley - 1926 - 138 pages
...his mother: "My mother was an angel upon earth. She was a minister of blessing to all human beings within her sphere of action. Her heart was the abode of heavenly purity. She had no feelings but of kindness and beneficence, yet her mind was as firm as her temper was mild... | |
| William Earl Weeks - 2002 - 256 pages
...Adams's diary: "My mother was an angel upon earth. She was a minister of blessing to all human beings within her sphere of action. Her heart was the abode of heavenly purity. She had no feelings but of kindness and beneficence; yet her mind was as firm as her temper was mild... | |
| 2000 - 264 pages
...educated at an early age, touchingly said: "My mother was a minister of blessing to all human beings within her sphere of action. Her heart was the abode of heavenly purity. She had no feeling but of kindness and beneficence, yet her mind was as firm as her temper was mild... | |
| Joseph Wheelan - 2008 - 344 pages
...his devotion to her, "was an angel upon Earth — She was a Minister of blessing to all human beings within her sphere of action. Her heart was the abode of heavenly purity. . . . She was the real personification of female virtue — of piety — of charity, of ever active... | |
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