 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1846 - 310 páginas
...understood by a previous acquaintance with the nature of the country, its political relations, and the manners of the people : my recollection all this...little court kept ; there too was a mixed, and in some degree, polished society. To this the accession of many families of French Huguenots, rather above... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1892 - 708 páginas
...New- York and who was a close observer of the manners of those times. "At New- York," she remarks, "there was always a governor, a few troops, and a kind of a little court kept; there too was a mixed and, in some degree, polished society. ... It was the custom... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1901 - 360 páginas
...understood by a previous acquaintance with the nature of the country, its political relations, and the manners of the people: my recollection all this...was always a governor, a few troops, and a kind of a little court kept; there too was a mixed, and in some degree, polished society. To this the accession... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1896 - 332 páginas
...gout. Mrs. Grant, writing of New York society in the middle of the eighteenth century, said : — " At New York there was always a governor, a few troops, and a kind of little court kept ; there was a mixed, and in some degree polished society. To this the accession of many families of French... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1909 - 648 páginas
...understood by a previous acquaintance with the nature of the country, its political relations, and the manners of the people : my recollection all this...was always a governor, a few troops, and a kind of a little court kept ; there too was a mixed, and in some degree, polished society. To this the accession... | |
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... any other peculiarities which can only be understood by a previous acquaintance with the nature of the country, its political relations, and the manners of the people: my recollection all this while has been merely confined to Albany and its precincts.... 