Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the RevolutionAppleton, 1846 - 295 halaman With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as they existed previous to the Revolution. Mrs. Grant of Laggan, as she was called, spent several years of her childhood in America, where her father was in the military service, returning to Scotland in 1770, at the age of fifteen. The “ American lady ” who is here described is Mrs. Schuyler of Albany, an aunt of Gen. Schuyler, a lady of great character and intelligence, in whose household the young Scotch girl was for some time on a very intimate footing. The volume shows a remarkable tenacity of memory, as well as a graceful and animated pen. The first forty-three chapters (out of sixty-six) are of a general nature, giving a lively sketch of society and manners among the Dutch families at Albany, and a somewhat detailed history of the Schuyler family. The rest of the volume describes the author's own experiences, chiefly at Oswego, where her father's regiment was stationed, and afterwards at Albany. |
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... cheerful one , occupied an hour or two ; the young men then set out to fish , or perhaps to shoot birds , and the maidens sat busily down to their work , singing and conversing with all the ease and gayety which the be- nign serenity of ...
... cheerful concern to the last in all that amused or inter- ested them ; and I never understood that the lay - brothers , as I have chosen to call them , blamed them for so doing . One of the first Christian virtues , charity in the most ...
... cheerful , and generous to excess , had previously married a lady from New York , with whom he obtained some fortune : a thing then singular in that country . This lady , whom , in her declining years , I knew very well , was the ...
... cheerful note . This loud and not unpleasing insect - chorus , with the swarms of gay butterflies in constant motion , enliven scenes to which the prevalence of woods , rising " shade above shade , " on every side , would otherwise give ...
... cheerful rural toils wear a more exhil- arating aspect than while the domestics were lodging the luxuriant harvest in this capacious repository . When speak- ing of the doors , I should have mentioned that they were made in the gable ...
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