Dames and Daughters of the Young RepublicT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1901 - 287 páginas |
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Aaron Burr Adams admiration Alston American Andrew Jackson answered arrived Aunt ball Baltimore beautiful Boston bride brilliant charming coach Congress cousin dancing daughter dear declared delighted dinner Dolly Dolly Madison Dolly's Donelson dress Elizabeth Elizabeth Patterson Emily Marshall Emily's eyes father favorite French friends gown grace guests happy heart Hermitage husband James Madison Jay's Jefferson Jerome Jerome Bonaparte John Adams John Hancock John Jay Joseph Alston journey lady Lady Morgan land letters Liberty Hall little girl lived Livingston Livy looked lover Madame Bonaparte Madame's Madison marriage married merry Miss Mistress Dorothy Monticello mother Napoleon never Paris Patsy Patsy's Patterson Philadelphia pleasant pleasure Polly president pretty Princess Quaker queen Rachel Randolph received sent sister smiling society sweet talk tell Theo Theodosia things thought told Virginia Washington White House wife window woman writes wrote York young
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Página 237 - Charleston General Jackson saw him on the field of battle ; the one a boy of twelve, the Marquis twentythree. He wears a wig, and is a little inclined to corpulency. He is very healthy, eats hearty, goes to every party, and that is every night.
Página 25 - Here I was most graciously received ; found a crowded collection of great and little men, of ugly old women and beautiful young ones, and in ten minutes was hand and glove with half the people in the assemblage. Mrs. Madison is a fine, portly, buxom dame, who has a smile and a pleasant word for everybody. Her sisters, Mrs. Cutts and Mrs. Washington, are like the two merry wives of Windsor...
Página 235 - ... mistress of slaves — never lived and never presented a more quiet, cheerful and admirable management of her household. She had not education, but she had a heart, and a good one; and that was always leading her to do kind things in the kindest manner. She had the General's own warm heart, frank manners and hospitable temper; and no two persons could have been better suited to each other, lived more happily together, or made a house more attractive to visitors.
Página 185 - I have had with me for a fortnight a little daughter of Mr. Jefferson's, who arrived here with a young negro girl, her servant, from Virginia. Mr. Jefferson wrote me some months ago that he expected them, and desired me to receive them I did so, and was amply repaid for my trouble. A finer child of her age I never saw. So mature an understanding, so womanly a behavior, and so much sensibilitt, united, are rarely to be met with.
Página 125 - Yet, after all, he is a poor actor who cannot sustain his little hour upon the stage, be his part what it may. But the man who has been deemed worthy of the heart of Theodosia Burr, and who has felt what it was to be blessed with such a woman's, will never forget his elevation.
Página 111 - I looked well or danced well ; for you are the only person in the world who says any thing to me about my appearance. Mari generally looks pleased, but rarely makes remarks. On my return, therefore, I wished for you to learn some account of myself; for vanity and diffidence had a combat in which each so well maintained its ground that the affair is still left undecided. General...
Página 236 - She had the faculty — a rare one — of retaining. names and titles in a throng of visitors, addressing each one appropriately, and dispensing hospitality to all with a cordiality which enhanced its value. No bashful youth, or plain old man, whose modesty sat them down at the lower end of the table, could escape her cordial attention, any more than the titled gentlemen on her right and left.
Página 78 - Damn John Jay! Damn every one that won't damn John Jay! Damn every one that won't put lights in his windows and sit up all night damning John Jay!!!
Página 98 - What — can neither affection nor civility induce you to devote to me the small portion of time which I have required ? Are authority and compulsion then the only engines by which you can be moved ? For shame, Theo. ! Do not give me reason to think so ill of you.
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Parlor Politics: In which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a ... Catherine Allgor Pré-visualização limitada - 2000 |
Parlor Politics: In which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a ... Catherine Allgor Pré-visualização limitada - 2000 |