11 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice Told Tales (Boston, 1851).
12 John Adams to Jefferson, in The Adams-Jefferson Letters, ed. Lester J. Cappon (2 vols., Chapel Hill, 1959), II, 582.
13OED, s.v. “sad,” A2,3,4.
14 The 92nd Psalm taught that “the righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age: they shall be fat and flourishing; to shew that the Lord is upright.” Richard Saltonstall to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts and to the Overseers of Harvard College, 5 March 1671/2, Saltonstall Papers, I, 159.
15Mass. Bay Records, I, 328.