 | William Wallace Currie - 1831 - 526 páginas
...from Britain, and suffering the scorching beams and the numbing colds of the atmosphere of Virginia. Do not you think you should relish a sight of your...and of the scenes of your infancy ? About eighteen months ago, I visited your father and mother; both, as our phrase is, rather frail, but preserving... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 páginas
...the following sketches. The first is an invitation sent across the Atlantic to his American relative. "You are now almost a stranger in your native land. Twenty-three years form a larpr portion of life ; and so long you have been absent 178 Life ana Writings of Dr. Currie. 179 from... | |
 | Costard Sly - 1833 - 238 páginas
...part ol a letter from the celebrated Dr Currie to one of his relatives in Virginia — (reading) " You are now almost a stranger in your native land....and of the scenes of your infancy ? About eighteen months ago, I visited your father and mother. I joked with your mother about your old tricks, and drank... | |
 | 1832 - 814 páginas
...following sketches. The first is an invitation sent across the Atlantic to his American relative. ' You are now almost a stranger in your native land. Twenty-three years form a large portion of life ; and so long you have been absent from Britain, and suffering the scorching beams and the numbing... | |
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Wilkie's memory could scarcely furnish him with prettier scenes than the following sketches. The first is an invitation sent across the Atlantic to his American relative. ' You are now almost a stranger in your native land. Twenty-three years form a large... 