The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair: Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1803Houghton, Mifflin, 1896 - 226 páginas |
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The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair: Or, True Stories from New England ... Nathaniel Hawthorne Visualização integral - 1896 |
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair: Or, True Stories from New England ... Nathaniel Hawthorne Visualização integral - 1896 |
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Página 136 - Minas, River Canard, &c. ; as well ancient, as young men and lads : " Whereas, his Excellency the Governor has instructed us of his late resolution, respecting the matter proposed to the inhabitants, and has ordered us to communicate the same in person, his Excellency being desirous that each of them should be fully satisfied of
Página 101 - fine things. And they used to wear hooped petticoats of such enormous size that it was quite a journey to walk round them." " And how did the gentlemen dress ? " asked Charley. " With full as much magnificence as the ladies," answered Grandfather. " For their holiday suits they had coats of figured velvet,
Página viii - Hawthorne wrote also at this time some short sketches of biography and history. While leading this quiet, uneventful life, he began to keep note-books, in which he recorded what he saw on his walks, what he heard other people say, and thoughts and fancies which came to him
Página 62 - ELIOT had been for some time assiduously employed in learning the Indian language. To accomplish this, he secured the assistance of one of the natives, who could speak English. Eliot, at the close of his Indian Grammar, mentions him as " a pregnantwitted young man, who had been a servant in an English house, who pretty well understood his own language, and had a clear pronunciation.
Página xxiv - their lives. If this impression can be given, much is accomplished. Setting aside Grandfather and his auditors, and excepting the adventures of the chair, which form the machinery of the work, nothing in the ensuing pages can be termed fictitious. The author, it is true, has sometimes assumed
Página 105 - the currency. But in 1744, after a peace of more than thirty years, war broke out between France and England." "And I suppose," said Charley, " the governor went to take Canada." " Not exactly, Charley," said Grandfather ; " though you have made a pretty shrewd conjecture. He planned, in 1745, an expedition against Louisburg. This was a fortified city, on the
Página 102 - the feather-top, and the full-bottom. Their threecornered hats were laced with gold or silver. They had shining buckles at the knees of their smallclothes, and buckles likewise in their shoes. They wore swords with beautiful hilts, either of silver, or sometimes of