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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... flatter myself , give an interest , with re- flecting minds , even to this desultory narrative , and the miscellany of description , observation , and detail which it involves . If truth , both of feeling and narration , which.
... interest of her story ( if story it may be called ) arises . It in- cludes that of many persons , obscure indeed but for the light which her regard and beneficence reflected upon them . Yet without those subordinate persons in the drama ...
... interest of the Stadt- holder's family , a party which , during the minority of King William , was almost persecuted by the high republicans . They who came over at a later period probably belonged to the party which opposed the ...
... interest in the general welfare , and contributed their respective shares of intelli- gence and sagacity , to aid plans that embraced important ob- jects relative to the common good . Every day called forth some new expedient , in which ...
... interest and comfort . Affectionate and faithful as these homebred ser- vants were in general , there were some instances ( but very few ) of those who , through levity of mind , or a love of liquor or finery , betrayed their trust , or ...
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Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenes ..., Volumen1 Anne MacVicar Grant Vista previa limitada - 2011 |