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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Página xiii
... officer in the 77th infantry , a Highland regiment ; her mother a de- scendant of the family of Stewart of Invernahyle . " My father , " writes Mrs. Grant , " was born in the parish of Craignish , in Argyllshire , and was early left an ...
... officer in the 77th infantry , a Highland regiment ; her mother a de- scendant of the family of Stewart of Invernahyle . " My father , " writes Mrs. Grant , " was born in the parish of Craignish , in Argyllshire , and was early left an ...
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... officer , and somewhat of a humorist withal . In her sixth year Anne was familiar with the Old Testament , and read with ... officers . While 1 Afterwards Colonel Duncan , elder brother of Lord Camperdown . here , his worth and agreeable ...
... officer , and somewhat of a humorist withal . In her sixth year Anne was familiar with the Old Testament , and read with ... officers . While 1 Afterwards Colonel Duncan , elder brother of Lord Camperdown . here , his worth and agreeable ...
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... officer's sash than anything I can compare it to . While the women and children were thus employed , the men sometimes assisted them in the more laborious part of their business , but oftener occupied them- selves in fishing on the ...
... officer's sash than anything I can compare it to . While the women and children were thus employed , the men sometimes assisted them in the more laborious part of their business , but oftener occupied them- selves in fishing on the ...
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... officers of the colonel's regiment , were received ; and those who could not find room there of the next class , were accommodated by Peter and Jeremiah . On the common was an Indian encampment : and the barn and orchard were full of ...
... officers of the colonel's regiment , were received ; and those who could not find room there of the next class , were accommodated by Peter and Jeremiah . On the common was an Indian encampment : and the barn and orchard were full of ...
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... officer ; and being a great talker , war and politics were his incessant topics . There was no campaign or expedition proposed but what he censured and decided on ; pro- posing methods of his own , by which they might have been much ...
... officer ; and being a great talker , war and politics were his incessant topics . There was no campaign or expedition proposed but what he censured and decided on ; pro- posing methods of his own , by which they might have been much ...
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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.