An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries from the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Band 17Bradford, 1803 |
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Seite 144 - Music, which their teachers formerly proscribed as a diabolic art, begins to make part of their education. In some houses you hear the fortepiano. This art, it is true, is still in its infancy ; but the young novices who exercise it are so gentle, so complaisant and so modest, that the proud perfection of art gives no pleasure equal to what they afford. God grant that the Bostonian women may never, like those of France, acquire the malady of perfection in this art ! It is never attained but at the...
Seite 144 - The Bostonians unite simplicity of morals with that French politeness and delicacy of manners which render virtue more amiable. They are hospitable to strangers, and obliging to friends. They are tender husbands, fond and almost idolatrous parents, and kind masters. Music, which their teachers formerly proscribed as a diabolic art, begins to make part of their education.
Seite 180 - York. You will find here the English fashions : in the dress of the women you will see the most brilliant silks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair ; equipages are rare, but they are elegant : the men have more simplicity in their dress ; they disdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the luxury of the table...
Seite 322 - ... acted the greatest part on the theatre of human affairs, while she possesses that amenity, and manifests that attention to strangers which render hospitality so charming. The same virtues are conspicuous in her interesting niece ; but unhappily she appears not to enjoy good health. M. de Chastellux has mingled too much of the brilliant in his portrait of General Washington. His eye bespeaks great goodness of heart, manly sense marks all his answers, and he sometimes animates in conversation ;...
Seite 145 - The good cloth coat covers the man ; calicoes and chintzes dress the women and children, without being spoiled by those gewgaws which whim and caprice have added to them among our women. Powder and pomatum never sully the heads of infants and children : I see them with pain, however, on the heads of men : they invoke the art of the hair-dresser ; for, unhappily, this art has already crossed the seas.
Seite 167 - On the road you often meet those fair Connecticut girls, either driving a carriage, or alone on horse-back, galloping boldly ; with an elegant hat on the head, a white apron, and a calico gown ; — usages which prove at once the early cultivation of their reason, since they are trusted so young to themselves, the safety of the road, and the general innocence of manners.
Seite 338 - Alps, begins an immense plain, intersected with hills of a gentle ascent, and watered everywhere with streams of all sizes; the soil is from three to seven feet deep, and of an astonishing fertility : it is proper for every kind of culture, and it multiplies cattle almost without the care of man.
Seite 162 - Almost all these houses are inhabited by men who are both cultivators and artisans; one is a tanner, another a shoemaker, another sells goods; but all are farmers.
Seite 152 - This remark applies to Boston. The university certainly contains men of worth and learning ; but science is not diffused among the inhabitants of the town. Commerce occupies all their ideas, turns all their heads, and absorbs all their speculations. Thus you find few estimable works, and few authors. The expence of the first volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of this town, is not yet covered ; it is two years since it appeared. Some time since was published, the history of the late troubles in...
Seite 35 - The towering Alps of half their moisture drains, ' And proudly swoln with a whole winter's snows, Distributes wealth and plenty where he flows.