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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... excellent though unembellished character ; and of the rapid pace with which an infant society has urged on its progress from virtuous simplicity to the dangerous " knowledge of good and evil ; " from tremulous imbecility to self - suffi ...
... excellent quality . Kidney - beans , asparagus , celery , great variety of salads and sweet herbs , cucumbers , & c . , were only admitted into the garden , into which no foot of man intruded , after it was dug in spring . Here were no ...
... excellent servants , well knowing servitude to be their lot for life , and that it could only be sweetened by making themselves par- ticularly useful , and excelling in their department . If they did their work well , it is astonishing ...
... excellent in their kinds , that come up the river usually at the same time . The sturgeon not only furnished them with good part of their food in the summer months , but was pickled or dried for future use or exportation . CHAPTER IX ...
... excellent and hardy breed of horses , flew from place to place over the snow or ice in these sledges with incredible rapidity , stopping a little while at every house they came to , where they were always well received , whether ...
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Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenes ..., Volumen1 Anne MacVicar Grant Vista previa limitada - 2011 |