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" With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found. We have been treated with an assiduous respect ; but I have not seen one real gentleman, one well-bred man, since I came to town. At their entertainments... "
The North American Review - Página 9
1857
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The lives and times of the chief justices of the supreme court of ..., Volumen40

Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 páginas
...there is no modesty, no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three...they will break out upon you again and talk away.' ' We have now stated the occasion on which Mr. Jay first appeared upon the theatre of affairs. We have...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumen50

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 714 páginas
...records the result : ' ' WITH ill the opulence and splendor, there Is very little of good breeding to bo found. We have been treated with an assiduous respect...prejudice. But the Fifth Avenue had not then been opened.' Perhaps some explanation of Mr. ADAMS'S indifferent opinion of his NewYork contemporaries of that period,...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumen50

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 718 páginas
...no modesty, no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and altogether. If they aak you a question, before you can utter three words of...answer they will break out upon you again, and talk away.1 ' ' This is sufficiently explicit, certainly ; for a man who had been feasted to the point of...
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The Life and Times of Aaron Burr: Lieutenant-colonel in the Army ..., Volumen188

James Parton - 1858 - 728 páginas
...there is no modesty, no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three...they will break out upon you again, and talk away." New York strikes the Bostonian of to-day very much as it did John Adams in 1774. The Revolution did...
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Works: With a Life of the Author, Volumen2

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 páginas
...which we should choose to see. With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found. We have been treated with...they will break out upon you again, and talk away. 24. Wednesday. This day Cushing and Paine went over to Long Island to dine with Phil Livingston. Adams...
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John Adams

John Torrey Morse - 1884 - 358 páginas
...there is no modesty, no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three...they will break out upon you again, and talk away." But if Mr. Adams was a little pettish at not being listened to with a gentlemanlike deference by the...
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The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the ..., Volumen2

John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 páginas
...•well-bred man, since I came to town. At their entertainments there is no agreeable conversation ; there is no modesty, no attention to one another....they will break out upon you again, and talk away." They, however, soon discovered in New York, the vacillating and temporizing character of the times....
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The Other Side of the Declaration of Independence: A Lecture

Frank Bergen - 1898 - 60 páginas
...there is no modesty ; no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three...they will break out upon you again and talk away." We would hardly consider this courteous language about friends who had treated us with assiduous respect...
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Public Papers of Governor, Volumen1

New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 930 páginas
...which we should choose to see. " With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found. We have been treated with...they will break out upon you again, and talk away. "24. Wednesday. This day Cushing and Paine went over to Long Island to dine with Phil Livingston. Adams...
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John Adams

John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1912 - 356 páginas
...another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before yon car utter three words of your answer, they will break out upon you again, and talk away." But if Mr. Adams was a little pettish at not. being listened to with a gentlemanlike deference by the...
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