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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... least easy and independent ; the constant efforts necessary to extend their commercial and agricultural posses- sions , prevented indolence ; and industry was the certain path to plenty . Surrounded on all sides by those whom the least ...
... least easy and independent ; the constant efforts necessary to extend their commercial and agricultural posses- sions , prevented indolence ; and industry was the certain path to plenty . Surrounded on all sides by those whom the least ...
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... least rich and gay . To the Schuylers this description did not apply ; they had gardeners , and their gardens were laid out in the European manner . Perhaps I should reserve my description of the manner of living in that country for ...
... least rich and gay . To the Schuylers this description did not apply ; they had gardeners , and their gardens were laid out in the European manner . Perhaps I should reserve my description of the manner of living in that country for ...
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... least three or four of equal ages , who had a strong rivalry with each other ; and children of different ages , in the same family , belonged to different companies . Wherever there is human nature there will be a degree of emulation ...
... least three or four of equal ages , who had a strong rivalry with each other ; and children of different ages , in the same family , belonged to different companies . Wherever there is human nature there will be a degree of emulation ...
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... least this was the impression it was likely to make on an European mind ; but a native American , familiar from childhood with the productions and inhabitants of the woods , sought the nuts and wild fruits with which they abounded - the ...
... least this was the impression it was likely to make on an European mind ; but a native American , familiar from childhood with the productions and inhabitants of the woods , sought the nuts and wild fruits with which they abounded - the ...
Halaman 63
... least preponderates more over birth , and heart , and mind , and many other valuable considerations . As a people , we cer- tainly are not sordid , why then should we descend to the meanness of being ashamed of our condition , while we ...
... least preponderates more over birth , and heart , and mind , and many other valuable considerations . As a people , we cer- tainly are not sordid , why then should we descend to the meanness of being ashamed of our condition , while we ...
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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 254 - 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 143 - 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.
Halaman 143 - 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.
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 234 - ... 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 41 - Let me not be detested as an advocate for slavery, when I say, that I think I have never seen people so happy in servitude as the domestics of the Albanians.
Halaman 143 - Yonnondio. you must have believed when you left Quebec that the sun had burnt up all the forests which render our country inaccessible to the French, or that the lakes had so far overflown the banks that they had surrounded our castles and that it was impossible for us to get out of them.
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...