The Women of the American Revolution, Том 1Baker and Scribner, 1819 |
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... wishes in this arduous but inter- esting task - I offer most heartfelt thanks . If the work whose progress they have cherished should be deemed a useful con- tribution to American History , they will be no less gratified than myself ...
... wishes in this arduous but inter- esting task - I offer most heartfelt thanks . If the work whose progress they have cherished should be deemed a useful con- tribution to American History , they will be no less gratified than myself ...
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... wish some of our great men had such wives . By the account in your last letter , it seems the women in Boston begin to think themselves able to serve their country . What a pity it is that our generals in the northern districts had not ...
... wish some of our great men had such wives . By the account in your last letter , it seems the women in Boston begin to think themselves able to serve their country . What a pity it is that our generals in the northern districts had not ...
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... wish- ing the company much enjoyment of their pleasures , and observing that it was time for old people to be at home , retired , leaning as before , on the arm of her son . " To this picture may be added another : " The Marquis de La ...
... wish- ing the company much enjoyment of their pleasures , and observing that it was time for old people to be at home , retired , leaning as before , on the arm of her son . " To this picture may be added another : " The Marquis de La ...
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... wishes were to be consummated . How dimly was the future seen ! Miss De Berdt's engagement with her American lover , was coincident with that dreary period of British his- tory , when a monarch and his ministers were laboring hard to ...
... wishes were to be consummated . How dimly was the future seen ! Miss De Berdt's engagement with her American lover , was coincident with that dreary period of British his- tory , when a monarch and his ministers were laboring hard to ...
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... wish , or hope , or thought . Mr. Reed , having finished his studies , returned to America , in the early part of 1765 , and began the prac- tice of the law in his native village of Trenton . His success was immediate and great . But ...
... wish , or hope , or thought . Mr. Reed , having finished his studies , returned to America , in the early part of 1765 , and began the prac- tice of the law in his native village of Trenton . His success was immediate and great . But ...
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Страница 246 - And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
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Страница 197 - I am not worth purchasing ; but such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.".
Страница 123 - The incessant cannonade during the solemnity ; the steady attitude and unaltered voice with which the chaplain officiated, though frequently covered with dust, which the shot threw up on all sides of him ; the mute but expressive mixture of sensibility and indignation upon every countenance — these objects will remain to the last of life upon the mind of every man who was present.
Страница 30 - Unmoved by pomp or circumstance — in truth Inflexible, and with a Spartan zeal Repressing vice, and making folly grave. Thou didst not deem it woman's part to waste Life in inglorious sloth — to sport...
Страница 331 - Go constantly to church, whoever preaches. The act of devotion in the Common Prayer Book is your principal business there, and, if properly attended to, will do more towards amending the heart than sermons generally can do. For they were composed by men of much greater piety and wisdom, than our common composers of sermons can pretend to be ; and therefore I wish you would never miss the prayer days ; yet...
Страница 31 - France, the general-in-chief of the combined armies of France and America, the deliverer of his country, the hero of the age, repaired to pay his...
Страница 316 - ... neither my own spirits nor my beautiful nag's failed in the least. We followed the well-marked trail of the troops. " The sun must have been well up, say eight or nine o'clock, when I heard a sound like thunder, which I knew must be cannon. It was the first time I ever heard a cannon. I stopped still; when presently the cannon thundered again. The battle was then fighting. "What a fool ! my husband could not be dead last night, and the battle only fighting now ! Still, as I am so near, I will...
Страница 126 - At last my husband's groom brought me a message to join him with the children. I once more seated myself in my dear calash, and, while riding through the American camp, was gratified to observe that nobody looked at us with disrespect, but on the contrary greeted us and seemed touched at the sight of a captive mother with three children.
Страница 28 - Upon his appointment to the command in chief of the American armies, previously to his joining the forces at Cambridge, he removed his mother from her country residence to the village of Fredericksburg, a situation remote from danger, and contiguous to her friends and relatives.