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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... occasion the latter came down late to breakfast to Mrs. Grant's great annoyance , as she was fond of punctuality and showed her displeas- ure by not speaking . By way of atoning for her 1 Writing from Inverary Castle on his return from ...
... occasion the latter came down late to breakfast to Mrs. Grant's great annoyance , as she was fond of punctuality and showed her displeas- ure by not speaking . By way of atoning for her 1 Writing from Inverary Castle on his return from ...
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... occasion , put off her habitual black dress and robed herself in a salmon - colored satin , and with the rest of the party waved her handkerchief as the king appeared . They all had a good laugh at my expense , who , somewhat notorious ...
... occasion , put off her habitual black dress and robed herself in a salmon - colored satin , and with the rest of the party waved her handkerchief as the king appeared . They all had a good laugh at my expense , who , somewhat notorious ...
Página xxxv
... occasion . Being afterwards introduced to the author , Henry Mackenzie , she bore it better and kissed his hand in admiring veneration . It is worth telling for the sake of Mr. Scott's comment . He said , ' did you ever hear the like of ...
... occasion . Being afterwards introduced to the author , Henry Mackenzie , she bore it better and kissed his hand in admiring veneration . It is worth telling for the sake of Mr. Scott's comment . He said , ' did you ever hear the like of ...
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... occasion , and were too soon made the object of the avidity of petty traders . To the infant settlement at Albany the consequences of this short - sighted policy might have proved fatal , had not these patriotic leaders , by their ...
... occasion , and were too soon made the object of the avidity of petty traders . To the infant settlement at Albany the consequences of this short - sighted policy might have proved fatal , had not these patriotic leaders , by their ...
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... occasion his full length portrait was painted , and is still preserved among his descendants at the Flats , an engraving of which is here given , and some pleasant allusions are made to time . in England , 1710 . once pastoral and ...
... occasion his full length portrait was painted , and is still preserved among his descendants at the Flats , an engraving of which is here given , and some pleasant allusions are made to time . in England , 1710 . once pastoral and ...
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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.