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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... recollections , studied more the amusement I should derive from executing this task , than any pleasure they could expect from its completion . The principal object of this work is to record the few incidents , and the many virtues ...
... recollection of past happiness and departed worth , is another ; and to benefit those into whose hands this imperfect sketch may fall , is a third . For , the authentic record of an exemplary life , though delivered in the most ...
... recollection of a state of society so peculiar , so utterly dissimilar to any other that I have heard or read of , that it exhibits human nature in a new aspect , and is so far an object of rational curiosity , as well as a kind of ...
... recollections of the writer , is not so foreign to the subject as it may at first appear . So much of the peace and safety of the infant community depended on the friend- ship and alliance of these generous tribes ; and to conciliate ...
... recollection all this while has been merely confined to Albany , and its precincts . At New York there was always a governor , a few troops , and a kind of little court kept ; there too was a mixed , and in some degree , polished ...
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Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenes ..., Volumen1 Anne MacVicar Grant Vista previa limitada - 2011 |