phylosopher

The gaiety of the weather is equally delightfull to the phylosopher, Poet and the man of Pleasure.

John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966

Think you that the phylosopher who [laught] at the follies of mankind did not pass thro '[life] with more ease and pleasure, than he who weept at them, and perhaps did as much towards a reformation.

Letter from Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 October 1764 1963

Hero, and which a rake, which a phylosopher, and which a parasite, than change breasts with them, tho possest of 20 lac'd wast coats and 1000 a year.

John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756 1961

Thã cõmythe forth the phylosopher and cryethe send me some argumêtis that be îsoluble.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

The Book may indeed amuse the ignorant, it may mislead the unwary, but neither can inform nor entertain the phylosopher nor the Man of Letters. "

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 June 1787 1787