Life and public services of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, with the eulogy delivered before the Legislature of New York

vi. 39--"Par negotiis neque supra"--applying them to a distinguished

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man, lately deceased. A lady wrote to inquire whence they came. Mr. Adams informed her, and added, that they could not be adequately translated in less than seven words in English. The lady replied that they might be well translated in five--Equal to, not above, duty--but better in three--JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.--Massachusetts Quarterly Review.]