Abigail Adams and Her TimesD. Appleton, 1917 - 282 páginas |
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... taken to the meeting - house to be baptized ; the meeting - house , unwarmed , as we have seen , from year's end to year's end , the wolf Cold waiting to receive the poor lamb , with jaws opened wider than those that grin- ned on the ...
... taken to the meeting - house to be baptized ; the meeting - house , unwarmed , as we have seen , from year's end to year's end , the wolf Cold waiting to receive the poor lamb , with jaws opened wider than those that grin- ned on the ...
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... taken out of the sea , for about twopence ster- ling . They have smelts , too , which they sell as cheap as sprats are in London . Salmon , too , they have in great plenty , and these they sell for about a shilling apiece , which will ...
... taken out of the sea , for about twopence ster- ling . They have smelts , too , which they sell as cheap as sprats are in London . Salmon , too , they have in great plenty , and these they sell for about a shilling apiece , which will ...
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... taken away from her , " and everybody was pleased . But no one , except the contracting parties and the Par- son , seems to have approved of Abigail's marrying John Adams . This , however , troubled none of the three overmuch . It is ...
... taken away from her , " and everybody was pleased . But no one , except the contracting parties and the Par- son , seems to have approved of Abigail's marrying John Adams . This , however , troubled none of the three overmuch . It is ...
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... allow its return . It was not till all had been done that man could do , that the final step was taken and the tea disposed of . Trevelyan , in his history of the American Revolution , says : " 66 ABIGAIL ADAMS AND HER TIMES.
... allow its return . It was not till all had been done that man could do , that the final step was taken and the tea disposed of . Trevelyan , in his history of the American Revolution , says : " 66 ABIGAIL ADAMS AND HER TIMES.
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... taken from them , and their property which they hold else- where is decaying , they humbly pray that you would consider them , lest hunger should break through stone walls . " The tenderest regard evermore awaits you your most ...
... taken from them , and their property which they hold else- where is decaying , they humbly pray that you would consider them , lest hunger should break through stone walls . " The tenderest regard evermore awaits you your most ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abby Abigail Adams Adams writes Adamses Alice Morse Earle American amuse beautiful BOSTON BLOCKADE Braintree called coat Congress Court Cranch daugh daughter dear delightful diamonds diary distress dollars Dorchester Heights drawing-room dress Duchess of Bedford eight England fancy fashion father fire flowers girls give gown half hand happy hear heart Hill honor hope hour hundred John Adams John Quincy Adams kind ladies letters live London looked Massachusetts meeting-house ment mind ministers mother Nathaniel Hawthorne never night o'clock Parson Smith person Philadelphia Portia pound pretty Princess Province House Queen Quincy received ribbon Richmond Hill round royal fam Samuel Adams satin scene seat shillings sister soldiers soon tell thing thought tion told town trimmed Washington week Weymouth wife winter wish women wreaths young
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Página 213 - To assist us in this great castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not one single one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain.
Página 209 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
Página 134 - I long to hear that you have declared an independency — and by the way, in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
Página 135 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival.
Página 135 - Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states.
Página 101 - Dignity, ease, and complacency, the gentleman and the soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. Those lines of Dryden instantly occurred to me: "' Mark his majestic fabric! He's a temple Sacred by birth, and built by hands divine; His soul's the deity that lodges there; Nor is the pile unworthy of the god...
Página 97 - And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them : remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
Página 135 - 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.
Referencias a este libro
Women in U.S. History: An Annotated Bibliography Common Women Collective Sin vista previa disponible - 1976 |