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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... soon acquired a sway over their less enlightened fellow settlers . Of this number were the Schuylers and Cuylers , two families among whom intel- lect of the superior kind seemed an inheritance , and whose intelligence and liberality of ...
... soon acquired a sway over their less enlightened fellow settlers . Of this number were the Schuylers and Cuylers , two families among whom intel- lect of the superior kind seemed an inheritance , and whose intelligence and liberality of ...
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... soon indeed must those stagnate where there are not proper objects to excite them . I have been forced into this painful digression by un- avoidable comparisons . To return : — Amidst all this mild and really tender indulgence to their ...
... soon indeed must those stagnate where there are not proper objects to excite them . I have been forced into this painful digression by un- avoidable comparisons . To return : — Amidst all this mild and really tender indulgence to their ...
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... soon as the rivers were open ; there they had new dangers to ap- prehend . It is well known that among the natives of Ame- rica , revenge was actually a virtue , and retaliation a positive duty . While faith was kept with these people ...
... soon as the rivers were open ; there they had new dangers to ap- prehend . It is well known that among the natives of Ame- rica , revenge was actually a virtue , and retaliation a positive duty . While faith was kept with these people ...
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... soon set fire with gunpowder , and the breakfast , a very regular and 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 ...
... soon set fire with gunpowder , and the breakfast , a very regular and 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 ...
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... soon arrived at certainty ; then taking an opportunity when there was no one in the kitchen but the cook - maid , he sent for one of the jovial party , who were at cards up stairs . During her absence , he cut the string by which the ...
... soon arrived at certainty ; then taking an opportunity when there was no one in the kitchen but the cook - maid , he sent for one of the jovial party , who were at cards up stairs . During her absence , he cut the string by which the ...
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abode affection afforded Albanians Albany ALPHEUS FELCH amusement appear attachment aunt Schuyler aunt's beauty became began brother Cadwallader Colden called canoe carried CHAP character charms cheerful Colonel Schuyler comfort command consequence considered conversation Cuyler degree delight domestic early fatal father favourite Flats formed formerly French friends habits happiness heard honour human Indians indulged inhabitants kind King Hendrick knew labour lakes lands lived madame maize manner marriage married means military mind mode Mohawk Mohawk nations Mohawk river Mungo Campbell native nature neighbours never New-York occasion palisadoes party peace person Philip Schuyler pleasure Pondiac portico possessed province recollect regiment rendered respect river sachems scarce scene seemed settlement settlers singular Sir William Johnson society soon spirit Stadholder strangers summer superior thing thought tion town traders trees tribes troops Upper Canada virtues warrior wild winter wonted woods young
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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...