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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... means of usefulness : hers was the spirit of old Chaucer's Oxford scholar , Gladly wolde he lerne , and gladly teche . " Mrs. Grant died at her residence in Manor Place , Edinburgh , November 7 , 1838 , retaining her facul- ties ...
... means of usefulness : hers was the spirit of old Chaucer's Oxford scholar , Gladly wolde he lerne , and gladly teche . " Mrs. Grant died at her residence in Manor Place , Edinburgh , November 7 , 1838 , retaining her facul- ties ...
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... means . " At the age of three score and ten Mrs. Grant began a sketch of her life , which contains a rapid view of the principal incidents of her career from her birth down to 1806 , leaving the story of the last thirty years of her ...
... means . " At the age of three score and ten Mrs. Grant began a sketch of her life , which contains a rapid view of the principal incidents of her career from her birth down to 1806 , leaving the story of the last thirty years of her ...
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... mean to discredit my own veracity . I certainly have no intention to relate anything that is not true . Yet in the dim distance of near forty years , 1 unassisted by written memorials , shall I not mistake dates , misplace facts , and ...
... mean to discredit my own veracity . I certainly have no intention to relate anything that is not true . Yet in the dim distance of near forty years , 1 unassisted by written memorials , shall I not mistake dates , misplace facts , and ...
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... mean and contracted ; their manners blunt and austere ; and their habits sordid and parsimonious ; as the settlement ... means apply . Yet they too bore about them the tokens of former affluence and respectability , such as family plate ...
... mean and contracted ; their manners blunt and austere ; and their habits sordid and parsimonious ; as the settlement ... means apply . Yet they too bore about them the tokens of former affluence and respectability , such as family plate ...
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... means suited his placid temper , simple manners , and habits of life , at 1 This event happening nearly half a century before Mrs. Grant was born , and nearly a century before this work was written , " unassisted by written memo- rials ...
... means suited his placid temper , simple manners , and habits of life , at 1 This event happening nearly half a century before Mrs. Grant was born , and nearly a century before this work was written , " unassisted by written memo- rials ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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.