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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... desire of knowledge , and an even and pleasing tem- per ; this her uncle had early observed . It was at that time very difficult to procure the means of instruction in those in- land districts ; female education , of consequence , was ...
... desire to lower others , that we may exalt our- selves . Dispassionate as my friends comparatively were , and bred up in the highest attainable candor and innocence , they regarded the company most in competition with their own with a ...
... desire ( undiverted by any other passion ) of obtaining the object of their affection , was to them a stimulus to early and severe exertion . The enam- ored youth did not listlessly fold his arms and sigh over his hopeless or ...
... desire of concealing our real condition , and appearing what we are not , which peculiarly characterizes , I had almost said dis- graces , the northern part , more particularly , of this island . I have often wondered how this vile ...
... desire of dazzling or outshining others ; whoever speaks for the sole purpose of conveying to other minds those ideas from which he himself has received pleasure and advantage , may possess this chaste and natural style : but it is not ...
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