Recollections of Seventy YearsPrimarily anecdotes of famous people, including about 20 women ; two chapters discuss marriage. |
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... mother country , they had there found a market for all the oil they could catch ; but the duty was now made so heavy , that it would not pay to send oil to Eng- land . The distresses of these once prosperous islanders determined my ...
... mother country , they had there found a market for all the oil they could catch ; but the duty was now made so heavy , that it would not pay to send oil to Eng- land . The distresses of these once prosperous islanders determined my ...
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... mother resolved , even at the risk of her life , to join her husband in Dunkirk , and his parents and sisters went with her , all strict Quakers , and objects of curiosity to the French , who saw for the first time the peculiarities of ...
... mother resolved , even at the risk of her life , to join her husband in Dunkirk , and his parents and sisters went with her , all strict Quakers , and objects of curiosity to the French , who saw for the first time the peculiarities of ...
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... mother and her children arrived with ample wardrobes , her clothes were borrowed by all her friends , and as she wore the Quaker cos- tume , she was amused to see her plain garments on gay , fashionable Frenchwomen . A courier arrived ...
... mother and her children arrived with ample wardrobes , her clothes were borrowed by all her friends , and as she wore the Quaker cos- tume , she was amused to see her plain garments on gay , fashionable Frenchwomen . A courier arrived ...
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... mother sent me every morning to pass several hours with her ; so visits to a nun's cell are among my earliest recollections . My mother valued relics so much , that she sent a good chair of her own to be exchanged for the shabby old one ...
... mother sent me every morning to pass several hours with her ; so visits to a nun's cell are among my earliest recollections . My mother valued relics so much , that she sent a good chair of her own to be exchanged for the shabby old one ...
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... mother made the acquaintance of Mrs. Barbauld , who was then writing for the benefit of her little nephew , Charles Aikin , those hymns and lessons which have since delighted so many children , both in the Old and the New World ...
... mother made the acquaintance of Mrs. Barbauld , who was then writing for the benefit of her little nephew , Charles Aikin , those hymns and lessons which have since delighted so many children , both in the Old and the New World ...
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Page 124 - In conversation we found her delightful. She was full of anecdotes about remarkable people, and often spoke from her personal knowledge of them. Her memory, too, was stored with valuable information, and her manner of narrating was so animated that it was difficult to realize her age. In telling an...
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Page 124 - ... remarkable people, and often spoke from her personal knowledge of them. Her memory, too, was stored with valuable information, and her manner of narrating was so animated, that it was difficult to realize her age. In telling an anecdote of Mirabeau, she stepped out before us, and extending her arm. spoke a sentence of his in the impassioned manner of a French orator, and did it so admirably that it was quite thrilling.