Catherine SchuylerBiography of a woman from a prominent Dutch family in colonial New York which reveals a great deal about life for women of the upperclass in 18th century America. |
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Page 181 - General went up to see her, and she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child. One moment she raved, another she melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her infant to her bosom, and lamented its fate, occasioned by the imprudence of its father, in a manner that would have pierced insensibility itself. All the sweetness of beauty, all the loveliness of innocence, all the tenderness of a wife, and all the fondness of a mother, showed themselves in her appearance and conduct.
Page 156 - All the generals remained to dine with General Gates. ' The same gentleman who received me so kindly, now came and said to me, " You will be very much embarrassed to eat with all these gentlemen; come with your children to my tent, where I will prepare for you a frugal dinner, and give it with a free will.
Page 15 - Look at the French. They are men; they are fortifying everywhere. But, we are ashamed to say it, you are all like women ; bare and open without any fortifications.
Page 183 - I am doing something in which you are concerned. This may seem a very idle disposition in a philosopher and a soldier, but I can plead illustrious examples in my justification. Achilles liked to have sacrificed Greece and his glory to a female captive, and Anthony lost a world for a woman. I am very sorry times are 1 This letter was first published in Martha Lamb's
Page 160 - The British commander was well received by Mrs. Schuyler, and lodged in the best apartment in the house. An excellent supper was served him in the evening, the honors of which were done with so much grace, that he was affected even to tears, and said, with a deep sigh, ' Indeed, this is doing too much for the man who has ravaged their lands, and burned their dwellings.
Page 157 - Some days after this, we arrived at Albany, where we so often wished ourselves; but we did not enter it as we expected we should — victors! We were received by the good General Schuyler, his wife and daughters...
Page 153 - I have done all that could be done, as far as the means were in my power, to injure the enemy, and to inspire confidence in the soldiers of our own army, and, I flatter myself, with some success ; but the palm of victory is denied me, and it is left to you, general, to reap the fruit of my labors. I will not fail, however, to second your views ; and my devotion to my country will cause me with alacrity to obey all your orders.
Page 156 - you seem so kind and tender to my children, it inspires me with courage.
Page 158 - He did more," said Burgoyne, in a speech before the House of Commons, " he sent an aide-de-camp to conduct me to Albany ; in order, as he expressed it, to procure better quarters than a stranger might be able to find. That gentleman conducted me to a very elegant house, and, to my great surprise, presented me to Mrs. Schuyler and her family. In that house I remained during my whole stay in Albany, with a table of more than twenty covers for me and my friends...
Page 214 - Nankeen-colored cassimere breeches, with white silk stockings, shining pumps, and full ruffles on my breast and at my wrists, together with a ponderous white cravat, with a pudding in it, as we then called it ; and I was considered the best-dressed gentleman in the room.
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| Title | Catherine Schuyler Women of colonial and revolutionary times |
| Author | Mary Gay Humphreys |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's Sons, 1897 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library, Harvard University |
| Digitized | Jul 3, 2007 |
| Length | 251 pages |
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