Colonial Days and Dames ...J.B. Lippincott Company, 1894 - 248 páginas |
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... ment to Mr. Justin Winsor , of Cambridge , to General Loring and Mr. Henry Ernest Woods , of Boston , to Mr. Matthew Clark- son , of New York , to Miss Adelaide L. Fries , of Salem , North Carolina , and to Dr. Charles J. Stillé , Mr ...
... ment to Mr. Justin Winsor , of Cambridge , to General Loring and Mr. Henry Ernest Woods , of Boston , to Mr. Matthew Clark- son , of New York , to Miss Adelaide L. Fries , of Salem , North Carolina , and to Dr. Charles J. Stillé , Mr ...
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... ment . They live friendly well together ; there is no persecution for religion , nor ever like to be . " From the various admixture of nation- alities and creeds in Pennsylvania was evolved , in less than a century , a popula- tion ...
... ment . They live friendly well together ; there is no persecution for religion , nor ever like to be . " From the various admixture of nation- alities and creeds in Pennsylvania was evolved , in less than a century , a popula- tion ...
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... ments , and even one of the much - derided red cloaks , had found their way into a household of such simplicity as the Frank- lins ' as early as 1750 . " Whereas on Saturday night last , the house of Ben- jamin Franklin , of this city ...
... ments , and even one of the much - derided red cloaks , had found their way into a household of such simplicity as the Frank- lins ' as early as 1750 . " Whereas on Saturday night last , the house of Ben- jamin Franklin , of this city ...
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... ment , numbers of servants were to be found in many households , some of them slaves . The " slaves ' gallery " is still to be seen in old Christ Church in Boston , and in Quaker Philadelphia some good citizens owned slaves , and ...
... ment , numbers of servants were to be found in many households , some of them slaves . The " slaves ' gallery " is still to be seen in old Christ Church in Boston , and in Quaker Philadelphia some good citizens owned slaves , and ...
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... ments in those days , surrounded by forests or bounded on one side or the other by the sea . Hence we may believe that the boys spent their recreation hours in the woods or by the water , and that the girls were sometimes permitted to ...
... ments in those days , surrounded by forests or bounded on one side or the other by the sea . Hence we may believe that the boys spent their recreation hours in the woods or by the water , and that the girls were sometimes permitted to ...
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Página 127 - I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Página 50 - We had for our chaplain a zealous Presbyterian minister, Mr. Beatty, who complained to me that the men did not generally attend his prayers and exhortations. When they enlisted, they were promised, besides pay and provisions, a gill of rum a day, which was punctually served out to them, half in the morning, and the other half in the evening ; and I observed they were as punctual in attending to receive it, upon which I said to Mr.
Página 157 - But as that's only adding fuel to fire, it makes me the more uneasy, for by often, and unavoidably, being in company with her revives my former passion for your Lowland beauty; whereas, was I to live more retired from young women, I might in some measure eliviate my sorrows, by burying that chaste and troublesome passion in the grave of oblivion...
Página 40 - Chest by the bed side, and setting up, fell to my old way of composing my Resentments, in the following manner: I ask thy Aid, O Potent Rum! To Charm these wrangling Topers Dum. Thou hast their Giddy Brains possest-- The man confounded with the Beast- And I, poor I, can get no rest. Intoxicate them with thy fumes: O still their Tongues till morning comes!
Página 42 - Coullers as were their pendants in their ears, which You should see very old women wear as well as Young. They have Vendues very frequently and make their Earnings very well by them for they treat with good Liquor Liberally, and the Customers Drink as Liberally and Generally pay for't as well, by paying for that which they Bid up Briskly for, after the sack has gone plentifully about, tho' sometimes good penny worths are got there.
Página 39 - Highth and bigness, the like hardly ever known, called by the Indians Narragansett; And quotes an Indian of so Barberous a name for his Author, that I could not write it.
Página 42 - Burroughs cary'd his spouse and Daughter and myself out to one Madame Dowes, a Gentlewoman that lived at a farm House, who gave us a handsome Entertainment of five or six Dishes and choice Beer and metheglin, Cyder, &c.
Página 87 - Amongst other favorite animals that cheered this lady's solitude, a brace of tame deer ran familiarly about the house, and one of them came to stare at me as a stranger. But unluckily spying his own figure in the glass, he made a spring over the tea table that stood under it and shattered the glass to pieces, and falling back upon the tea table, made a terrible fracas among the china.
Página 112 - I was your father confessor, and as though you had committed a crime, great in itself, yet of the venial class. You have reason good, for I find myself strangely disposed to be a very indulgent ghostly adviser on this occasion, and, notwithstanding you are the most offending soul alive...
Página 40 - ... knew where it was, which was extreem cold in summer, and as Hott as could be imagined in the winter, which was much resorted too by the natives, and by them called Narragansett, (Hott and Cold,) and that was the originall of their places name — with a thousand Impertinances not worth notice, wch He utter'd with such a Roreing voice and Thundering blows with the fist of wickedness on the Table, that it peirced my very head.