He gave Pope a wonderfully high character, and remarked that one of his chief beauties was the skill exhibited in varying the cesural pause--quoting from various parts of his author to illustrate his remarks more fully.

He said very little on the politics of the country.

He spoke at considerable length of Sheridan and Burke, both of whom he had heard, and could describe with the most graphic effect.

He also spoke of Junius; and it is remarkable that he should place him so far above the best of his contemporaries.

He spoke of him as a bad man; but maintained, as a writer, that he had never been equalled.
"The conversation never flagged for a moment; and on the whole, I shall remember my visit to Quincy, as amongst the most instructive and pleasant I ever passed." As a theologian, Mr.Adams was familiar with the tenets of the various denominations which compose the great Christian family, and acquainted with the principal arguments by which they support their peculiar views.
While entertaining decided opinions of his own, which he did not hesitate to avow on all proper occasions, he was tolerant of the sentiments of all who differed from him.