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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... less enlightened fellow - settlers . Of this number were the Schuylers and Cuylers , two families among whom intel- lect of the superior kind seemed an inheritance , and whose intelligence and liberality of mind , fortified by well ...
... less solicitous either to please or to shine than the members of more polished societies ; because , in the first place , they had no motive either to dazzle or deceive ; and in the next , had they attempted it , they felt there was no ...
... less multitudes of pigeons in winter , when their fruit is in season ; while wild geese and ducks , in numbers nearly as great , pass the winter in the impenetrable swamps behind . Some time in the month of April , a general emigration ...
... less powerful . Here , indeed , it might with truth be said- " Love breathed his infant sighs from anguish free " In consequence of the singular mode of associating little exclusive parties of children of both sexes , which has been ...
... less . If you went to spend a day anywhere , you were received in a manner we should think very cold . No one rose to welcome you ; no one wondered you had not come sooner , or apologized for any deficiency in your entertainment . Din ...
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