Royall's Sketches: Of History, Life, and Manners in the United StatesApplewood Books, 30. 1. 2003 - Počet stran: 392 Printed privately in 1826, Anne Newport Royall's Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States caused quite a stir, as did most of her publications. Considering herself to be the guardian of democracy (she later became a friend of John Quincy Adams), Royall used her works to expose corruption and bad dealings wherever she went, with a boldness that was remarkable for an era obsessed with gentility and 'Äúwomanly virtue'Äù. 'ÄúSketches'Äù catalogs Royall's travels from Louisiana to Maine, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Springfield, Hartford, Worcester, Boston, and New Haven, noting each city's population, industry, physical description and modes of available transportation, as well as regional dialects, modes of dress and the character of the city's residents. |
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... appearance , owing to the lamented death of Mr. Wiley , of New- York : also , that the matter of the book does not exactly come up to the prospectus , as regards the western states , for this reason , -when the proposals for this , as ...
... appearance , owing to the lamented death of Mr. Wiley , of New- York : also , that the matter of the book does not exactly come up to the prospectus , as regards the western states , for this reason , -when the proposals for this , as ...
Strana 24
... appearance of the Yankee . If he really was a Yankee , he was the most gentlemanly of the country I had ever seen . I hinted this to him . " I hope , " said he , " you would'nt judge us all by the d - n little Yankee pedlars , that go ...
... appearance of the Yankee . If he really was a Yankee , he was the most gentlemanly of the country I had ever seen . I hinted this to him . " I hope , " said he , " you would'nt judge us all by the d - n little Yankee pedlars , that go ...
Strana 28
... appearance , and evidently show that they are no lon- ger the residence of industry or enterprise . Even in Knoxville , although some new buildings are erected , yet many others are mouldering into dust . I passed the head of Holston ...
... appearance , and evidently show that they are no lon- ger the residence of industry or enterprise . Even in Knoxville , although some new buildings are erected , yet many others are mouldering into dust . I passed the head of Holston ...
Strana 30
... appearance like the Kentuckians , though they ex- cel even these in expression of countenance . In ad- dition to all this , they are a well informed , hospitable and polite people . But from these advantages we must except the poor ...
... appearance like the Kentuckians , though they ex- cel even these in expression of countenance . In ad- dition to all this , they are a well informed , hospitable and polite people . But from these advantages we must except the poor ...
Strana 41
... appearances . Sometimes it , runs with nimble . speed over a smooth solid rock of about twenty paces , which looks as it were planed by man , on which not the smallest pebble appears . In a moment you see it inter- lucent , some of the ...
... appearances . Sometimes it , runs with nimble . speed over a smooth solid rock of about twenty paces , which looks as it were planed by man , on which not the smallest pebble appears . In a moment you see it inter- lucent , some of the ...
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