Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as They Existed Previous to the Revolution, Volume 1Dodd, Mead, 1901 - 269 halaman |
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... Warrior - The Spirit pervading the New England Provinces . XXI . Distinguishing Characteristics of the New York Colonists Huguenots and Palatines · XXII . Adoption of Children Common in the Province Madame's Visit to New York XXIII ...
... Warrior - The Spirit pervading the New England Provinces . XXI . Distinguishing Characteristics of the New York Colonists Huguenots and Palatines · XXII . Adoption of Children Common in the Province Madame's Visit to New York XXIII ...
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... warriors to forsake the safety and enjoyments of their own country , to encounter the perils of a long voyage , and trust themselves among entire strangers , and this merely to bind closer an alliance with the sovereign of a distant ...
... warriors to forsake the safety and enjoyments of their own country , to encounter the perils of a long voyage , and trust themselves among entire strangers , and this merely to bind closer an alliance with the sovereign of a distant ...
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... warrior and faithful ally of the British crown the redoubted King Hendrick , then sovereign of the Five Nations , splendidly arrayed in a suit of light blue , made in an antique mode , and trimmed with broad silver lace ; which was ...
... warrior and faithful ally of the British crown the redoubted King Hendrick , then sovereign of the Five Nations , splendidly arrayed in a suit of light blue , made in an antique mode , and trimmed with broad silver lace ; which was ...
Halaman 142
... warriors who were to succeed him in the honors of the chase , and of the tomahawk . Wherever man is a mere hunter ... warrior above alluded to made his appearance , it softened the cares of his mother ; who well knew that when he grew up ...
... warriors who were to succeed him in the honors of the chase , and of the tomahawk . Wherever man is a mere hunter ... warrior above alluded to made his appearance , it softened the cares of his mother ; who well knew that when he grew up ...
Halaman 159
... warriors in defence of those who made no effort to defend themselves ; who were neither protected by the arms of their sovereign , nor by their own courage . They came down to hold a solemn congress , at which the heads of the Schuyler ...
... warriors in defence of those who made no effort to defend themselves ; who were neither protected by the arms of their sovereign , nor by their own courage . They came down to hold a solemn congress , at which the heads of the Schuyler ...
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Albanians Albany American Lady amusements appear attached Aunt beauty became began brother called Chapter character cheerful COHOES FALLS Colonel Schuyler considered Cuyler daughter delight distinguished domestic domine Dutch duties early elegance father Five Nations Flats formed formerly Fort Augustus French Frielinghuysen friends Grant habits happiness Highland Indian inhabitants instance kind King Hendrick knew labor Laggan lakes language lived LOCH LAGGAN luxury manners marriage married means Memoirs ment military mind mode Mohawk Mohawk nation Mohawk river moral mother native nature never numbers occupied Onnonthio party patroon peace person Peter Schuyler Philip Schuyler polished possessed province received recollect regiment religion Rensselaer Rensselaerwyck respect river sachems scarce SCHUYLER HOUSE seemed settlers simplicity singular Sir Walter Scott society soon spirit stadtholder strangers style summer superior tion town traders trees tribes warriors West Friesland wild winter woods York young
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Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.