Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as They Existed Previous to the Revolution. With Unpublished Letters and a Memoir of Mrs. Grant by James Grant WilsonDodd, Mead, 1909 |
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... never told a lie , or spoke without thinking , should accompany them . However this gentleman's wisdom and integrity might qualify him for this employment , it by no means suited his placid temper , simple manners , and habits of life ...
... never told a lie , or spoke without thinking , should accompany them . However this gentleman's wisdom and integrity might qualify him for this employment , it by no means suited his placid temper , simple manners , and habits of life ...
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... forth in exigencies ; yet that monster in nature , an impious woman , was never heard of among them . Indeed it was on the females that the task of State of Religion among the Settlers Sketch the State of Society at New York.
... forth in exigencies ; yet that monster in nature , an impious woman , was never heard of among them . Indeed it was on the females that the task of State of Religion among the Settlers Sketch the State of Society at New York.
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... never seen people so happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians . One reason was ( for I do not now speak of the virtues of their masters ) , that each family had few of them , and that there were no field negroes . They would ...
... never seen people so happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians . One reason was ( for I do not now speak of the virtues of their masters ) , that each family had few of them , and that there were no field negroes . They would ...
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... never sold without consulting their mother , who , if expert and sagacious , had a great deal to say in the family , and would not allow her child to go into any family with whose domestics she was not acquainted . These negro - women ...
... never sold without consulting their mother , who , if expert and sagacious , had a great deal to say in the family , and would not allow her child to go into any family with whose domestics she was not acquainted . These negro - women ...
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... never was intrusted with anything of his own , and lived an idle bachelor about the family . In process of time a favorite negro - woman , to the great offence and scandal of the family , bore a child to him , whose color gave testimony ...
... never was intrusted with anything of his own , and lived an idle bachelor about the family . In process of time a favorite negro - woman , to the great offence and scandal of the family , bore a child to him , whose color gave testimony ...
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admiration affection Albanians Albany American amusement ANNE GRANT appeared army attached Aunt Schuyler aunt's beauty became began better brother Cadwallader Colden called Chapter character charming cheerful colonel command consequence Cortlandt Cuyler daughter delight early fatal father favorite Flats formerly French Frielinghuysen friends Grant habits happy heard honor Indian inhabitants kind King Hendrick knew lady Laggan lakes land lived Madame Madame's manner marriage married ment military mind mode Mohawk Mohawk nations Mohawk river mother Mungo Campbell native nature nephew never occasion officers Oswego party peace person Peter Schuyler Philip Schuyler pleasure Pontiac possessed province recollect regiment residence respect river sachems scene Scotland seemed settlers singular Sir William Johnson sister society soon sorrow spirit strangers summer things thought tion took trader trees tribes warrior wild winter wonted woods York young
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Página 286 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 230 - I do not sleep; I have my eyes open, and the sun which enlightens me, discovers to me a great captain at the head of a company of soldiers, who speaks as if he were dreaming.
Página 286 - CALEDONIA ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Página 232 - Grangida, who loves you, and desires you to accept of this present of beaver, and take part with me in my feast, to which I invite you. This present of beaver is sent to Yonnondio, on the part of the Five Nations.
Página 87 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when Nature rests. Oft, in her absence, mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her ; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams ; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Página 231 - Hear, Yonnondio, our women had taken their clubs, our children and old men had carried their bows and arrows into the heart of your camp, if our warriors had not disarmed them, and kept them back, when your messenger, Ohguesse, came to our castles.
Página 231 - Hear, Yonnondio; take care for the future, that so great a number of soldiers as appear there do not choke the tree of peace planted in so small a fort. It will be a great loss, if, after it had so easily taken root, you should stop its growth, and prevent its covering your country and ours with its branches.
Página xxxv - Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune and privation, are written at once with simplicity and force ; and uniformly bear the stamp of a virtuous and courageous mind, recommending to the reader that patience and fortitude which the writer herself practised in such an eminent degree.
Página 231 - We may go where we please, and carry with us whom we please, and buy and sell what we please : if your allies be your slaves, use them as such, command them to receive no other but your people.
Página 72 - I have so often beheld both in town and country, a respectable mistress of a family, going out to her garden in an April morning with her great calash, her little painted basket of seeds, and her rake over her shoulder, to her garden labors. These were by no means merely figurative. ' From morn till noon, from noon till dewy eve,' a woman in very easy circumstances and abundantly gentle in form and manners would sow and plant and rake incessantly. These fair gardeners were also great florists; their...