Adamite

the name a(lopted by a religious set in the second century, who sought to revive ne state of man before the Fall, and therefore 3jected marriage and worshipped without clothes. ‘he sect had some devotees in the 12th and 15th onturies, Adamnan, or Adomnan, a native of Ireland, tho flourished about 624 to 704, and was Abbot, f Iona during the last twenty-five years of his fe. He tried in vain to induce his monks to dopt the observance of Easter according to the toman Calendar, and he wrote two curious books: Life of St. Columba, and a treatise, De Situ Terrie lancte, Adams, CHARLES FRANCIS, son of John Quincy dams, born 1807, graduated at Harvard, and dmitted to the bar 1828. After long experience 1 the local legislature of Ma achusetts, during rhich as a Free-Soiler he supported Van Buren, he ntered Congre on the Republican ticket in 1858. n 1861 he was appointed Minister to England, and eld that post with dignity and credit during the ritical od of the Civil War and the discu ion f the Alabama claims. Retiring in 1868, he served. s arbitrator under the Washington Treaty in 1871. ee * ) He cient of magazines. United He of profe ion of against Preston in 1774, as was a a these friendly 1785 Before Defence tending little French on in way with He whose retirement he death ceding, his Harvard, in as went Congre his on denouncing England first ing he chosen Protectionist chase for to the seized and being his severe collector into Adams. aspired to the Presidency, but met with insuffisupport. He was, however, elected Governor his native State, and wrote much in reviews and He died in 1880. Adams, JoHN, one of the’ founders of the States, was born in Ma achusetts in 1736. was educated at Harvard, and entered the office Putnam to study law. Rapidly rising in his he very soon forecast the future destiny the Colonies, and in 1765 joined in protesting the Stamp Act. Yet he defended Capt. and his soldiers from a charge of murder 1770. He was a member of the first Congre of and was sent in 1777 with Franklin and others Commi ioner to France. Two years later he employed to negotiate for peace, and to make commercial treaty with England. He maintained firm attitude in face of French opposition to aims, and succeeded in bringing Holland into relations with the New Republic, which in he represented at the Court of St. James’s. returning to America in 1787 he wrote a of the American Constitution, strongly confor the co-existence of two chambers. A later he combated the propagandism of revolutionaries in a book entitled Discourses Davila, He succeeded Washington as President 1797. At the expiration of his office he made for Jefferson, being unable to deal satisfactorily the pretensions of the French demagogues. felt, however, no jealousy towards his succe or, policy he cordially approved. Living in at his native place, Brain tree (Quincy), reached the venerable age of eighty-nine. His took place in 1825. Adams, JoHN Qu1NcY, eldest son of the pre and born at Brain tree, 1767, spent much of earlier years in Europe. He graduated at was called to the bar, wrote with ability a Boston newspaper, and was sent by Washington amba ador to the Hague, 1794. Thence he to Pru ia, but being recalled, 1801, entered as a Federalist in 1803. Breaking with party, he retired to practise the law, and lecture literature at Harvard until 1809, when, after a Federalist plot for separating New from the Union, he went as am ba a dot to St. Peters burgh and then to London, a ist in framing the Treaty of Ghent, 1814. In 1818 became Secretary of State, and in 1825 was President. Whilst in office he adopted views, and also endeavoured to pur- Cuba. Jackson defeated his re-election, and two years he lived in retirement, but return in Congre in 1831 he by his exertions pave way for the Abolition of Slavery. He was with paralysis in the midst of a debate (1848) died two days later. Adams, SAMUEL, born at Boston, U.S.A., 1722, second cousin to John Adams. Owing to father’s failure in busine he went through struggles in youth, becoming ultimately taxfor Boston. He very soon threw himself the struggle against the British Government; 31 was signed President Governor, till under when 1803. are Adams's tube rance by has forbidden is grounds with high, Colombo. the of is which Adam, it The of Minor. Sihun, site route seized and river plain French Adam’s Apple. ne ee a member of the Philadelphia Congre , the Declaration of Independence. of the Ma achusetts Senate, and Governor of the State, he 1797. He attached himself to the Republicans Jefferson, and withdrew from the Federalists got the upper hand, Napoleon’s famous reproach—“ The a nation of shopkeepers,” is traced speeches. Adam’s Apple, the name given to in the fore part of the throat, the thyroid cartilages of the larynx; arisen from the legend that a piece fruit stuck in Adam's throat. also applied to some fruits. Adam’s Bridge, the name given on to a series of sand-banks connecting India. Adam’s Peak, a conical peak, about in the 8S. of Ceylon, 46 miles Mohammedans and Buddhists spot with equal veneration, for at the the mountain, within a small wooden oh SO e al ages ae ADAM'S PEAK. a depre ion in the ground, 5} ft. the former a ert to be the footprint whilst the latter are no le confident was made by Buddha as he stepped over shadow cast by Adam’s Peak at sunrise the most extraordinary sights in the world.