Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as They Existed Previous to the Revolution, Volumen1Dodd, Mead, 1901 - 269 páginas |
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... beauty , but without regu- larity , every one planting the kind that best pleased him , or which he thought would afford the most agreeable shade to the open portico at his door which was surrounded by seats , and ascended by a few ...
... beauty , but without regu- larity , every one planting the kind that best pleased him , or which he thought would afford the most agreeable shade to the open portico at his door which was surrounded by seats , and ascended by a few ...
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... beauty ; there some of the most industrious early settlers had cleared the luxuriant wood from these charming little glens , and built neat cottages for their slaves , sur- rounded with little gardens and orchards , sheltered from every ...
... beauty ; there some of the most industrious early settlers had cleared the luxuriant wood from these charming little glens , and built neat cottages for their slaves , sur- rounded with little gardens and orchards , sheltered from every ...
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... beauty and luxuriance ; but other- wise they only travelled through a grove of chest- nuts or oak , to arrive at another of maple , or poplar , or a vast stretch of pines and other evergreens . If by chance they arrived at a hill ...
... beauty and luxuriance ; but other- wise they only travelled through a grove of chest- nuts or oak , to arrive at another of maple , or poplar , or a vast stretch of pines and other evergreens . If by chance they arrived at a hill ...
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... beauty of the surrounding scene were calculated to inspire . After the sultry hours had been thus employed , the boys brought their tribute from the river or the wood , and found a rural meal prepared by their fair companions , among ...
... beauty of the surrounding scene were calculated to inspire . After the sultry hours had been thus employed , the boys brought their tribute from the river or the wood , and found a rural meal prepared by their fair companions , among ...
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... beauty . In town all the boys were extravagantly fond of a diversion that to us would appear a very odd and childish one . The great street of the town , in the midst of which , as has been formerly mentioned , stood all the churches ...
... beauty . In town all the boys were extravagantly fond of a diversion that to us would appear a very odd and childish one . The great street of the town , in the midst of which , as has been formerly mentioned , stood all the churches ...
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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 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 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 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 230 - I thank you, in their name, for bringing back into their country the calumet, which your predecessor received from their hands. It was happy for...
Página 72 - ... 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 labours.
Página 77 - ... pasture. At the other end of the town was a fertile plain along the river, three miles in length, and near a mile broad. This was all divided into lots, where every inhabitant raised Indian corn, sufficient for the food of two or three slaves, (the greatest number that each family ever possessed,) and for his horses, pigs, and poultry: their flour and other grain they purchased from farmers in the vicinity.
Página xxv - What the loss of the Huguenots was to commerce and manufactures in France, that of the loyalists was to religion, literature, and amenity, in America. The silken threads were drawn out of the mixed web of society, which has ever since been comparatively coarse and homely.
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.