But, with the modesty of true greatness, it was painful to him to hear these encomiums uttered in his own presence.

He arose, and begged the House, in whatever further action it might take upon the subject, to refrain from pursuing this strain.

"I have been most deeply affected," he said, "by what has already passed.

I have felt, in the strongest manner, the impropriety of my being in the House while such remarks were made; being very conscious that sentiments of an opposite kind might have been uttered with far more propriety, and have probably been withheld in consequence of my presence." Mr.Adams carried with him into Congress all his previous habits of industry and close application to business.

He was emphatically a hard worker.