Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the RevolutionAppleton, 1846 - 295 páginas With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as they existed previous to the Revolution. Mrs. Grant of Laggan, as she was called, spent several years of her childhood in America, where her father was in the military service, returning to Scotland in 1770, at the age of fifteen. The “ American lady ” who is here described is Mrs. Schuyler of Albany, an aunt of Gen. Schuyler, a lady of great character and intelligence, in whose household the young Scotch girl was for some time on a very intimate footing. The volume shows a remarkable tenacity of memory, as well as a graceful and animated pen. The first forty-three chapters (out of sixty-six) are of a general nature, giving a lively sketch of society and manners among the Dutch families at Albany, and a somewhat detailed history of the Schuyler family. The rest of the volume describes the author's own experiences, chiefly at Oswego, where her father's regiment was stationed, and afterwards at Albany. |
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... beauty ; there some of the most industrious early settlers had cleared the luxuriant wood from these charming glens , and built neat cottages for their slaves , surrounded with little gardens and orchards , sheltered from every blast ...
... beauty and luxuriance ; but otherwise they only travelled through a grove of chesnuts or oak , to arrive at another of maple , or poplar , or a vast stretch of pines and other ever- greens . If by chance they arrived at a hill crowned ...
... beauty of the sur- rounding scene were calculated to inspire . After the sultry hours had been thus employed , the boys brought their tribute from the river or the wood , and found a rural meal prepared by their fair companions , among ...
... and serene , and the snow so reflected the moon and starlight , that the nights exceeded the days in beauty . In town , all the boys were extravagantly fond of AND SCENERY IN AMERICA . 57 -Winter Amusements of the Albanians,
... beauty and simple majesty . Her various aspects are more grand and impressive . Her voice is more distinctly heard , and sinks deeper into the heart . These people , more dependent on the simples of the fields , and the wild fruits of ...
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