Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the RevolutionGeorge Dearborn, 1836 - 354 halaman |
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... merely to bind closer an alliance with the sovereign of a distant country , a female sovereign too ; a mode of government that must have appeared to them very incongruous . This was no common undertaking , nor was it easy to induce ...
... merely to bind closer an alliance with the sovereign of a distant country , a female sovereign too ; a mode of government that must have appeared to them very incongruous . This was no common undertaking , nor was it easy to induce ...
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... mere simplicity , or even a rustic bluntness , I would by no means call vulgarity . At the same time these unembellished females had more comprehension of mind , more variety of ideas , more in short of what may be called original ...
... mere simplicity , or even a rustic bluntness , I would by no means call vulgarity . At the same time these unembellished females had more comprehension of mind , more variety of ideas , more in short of what may be called original ...
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... merely confined to Albany , and its precincts . At New - York there was always there a governor , a few troops , and a kind of little court kept ; too was a mixed , and in some degree , polished society . To this the accession of many ...
... merely confined to Albany , and its precincts . At New - York there was always there a governor , a few troops , and a kind of little court kept ; too was a mixed , and in some degree , polished society . To this the accession of many ...
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... mere machines , move on their mercen- ary track , without feeling or exciting one kind or generous sentiment . Home ... merely record the fact . At the same time , it is but jus- tice to record also a singular instance of moral delicacy ...
... mere machines , move on their mercen- ary track , without feeling or exciting one kind or generous sentiment . Home ... merely record the fact . At the same time , it is but jus- tice to record also a singular instance of moral delicacy ...
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... the rest they were very much left to nature , and permitted to range about at full liberty in their earliest years , covered in summer with some slight and cheap garb , which merely kept the sun from them 48 MEMOIRS OF AN.
... the rest they were very much left to nature , and permitted to range about at full liberty in their earliest years , covered in summer with some slight and cheap garb , which merely kept the sun from them 48 MEMOIRS OF AN.
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Halaman 144 - 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.
Halaman 143 - 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 you, that you left under ground that murdering hatchet that has been so often dyed in the blood of the French.
Halaman 252 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when Nature rests. Oft, in her absence, mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her ; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams ; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Halaman 145 - 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.
Halaman 145 - 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. I...
Halaman 144 - 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.
Halaman 39 - ... 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.
Halaman 232 - Hendrick, who had indeed a very princely figure, and a countenance that would not have dishonored royalty, was sitting on the floor beside a large heap of wheat, surrounded with baskets of dried berries of different kinds; beside him, his son, a very pretty boy, somewhat older than myself, was caressing a foal, which was unceremoniously introduced into the royal residence. A laced hat, a fine saddle and pistols, gifts of his good brother the great king, were hung round on the cross beams.
Halaman 232 - ... a,nd ordered me a little basket, very pretty, and filled by the officious kindness of his son with dried berries. Never did princely gifts, or the smile of royalty, produce more ardent admiration and profound gratitude. I went out of the royal presence overawed and delighted, and am not sure but what I have liked kings all my life the better for this happy specimen, to which I was so early introduced. Had I seen royalty, properly such, invested with all the pomp of European magnificence, I should...
Halaman 144 - Jesuits, who stave all the kegs of rum brought to our castles, lest the drunken Indians should knock them on the head. Our warriors have not beaver enough to pay for all these arms that they have taken, and our old men are not afraid of the war. This belt preserves my words.