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Travels in America and Italy (Volumes I & II) – Francois-René Chateaubriand

Chateaubriand was born in Brittany, Sept. 14, 1768. At the time of the French Revolution he took part at first with the exiled royalists, but, returning to France, was employed in a diplomatic service by Napoleon. On the murder of the Duc d’Enghein, he threw up his office as ambassador to the Republic of Valais. He supported the restoration monarchy, becoming a minister of state, and was appointed ambassador-extraordinary to England. He visited America when a young man, and afterwards traveled in the east. Chateaubriand’s books abound in passages of brilliant description, and there is no French author before him whose prose writings can compare with his in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

New York In Bygone Days – Its Story, Streets And Landmarks – Rufus Rockwell Wilson

Verily this Island of Manhattan is exposed to the danger of being snowed under by the showers of works scattered broadcast by her chroniclers, her eulogists, and her critics. Plentiful has been the crop of local commentaries. “New York in bygone days” is a fair type of one species of these city histories. In the main it is composed of gleanings from more ponderous and elaborate works. Mr. Wilson devotes the first volume to the civic development of the city from the first settlements around the fort to the end of the Civil War. The story is fairly well told, without a single touch of… Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Rambles in Colonial Byways – Rufus Rockwell Wilson

Good to look at and pleasant to read are the sketches of old colonial times entitled “Rambles in Colonial Byways.”. In them the author sets forth in pleasing style the result of his observations during a series of leisurely jaunts to various nooks and byways in New England and New York, and along the Hudson, in Pennsylvania and through Washington’s country, the spots visited being such as are memorable for their associations and souvenirs of Colonial and Revolutionary days. Wilson offers a good deal of crious lore about old times and suggestions which will interest a modern visitor, whether it be to the city, the river valleys of the delightful Maryland shores.… Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston – Samuel Adams Drake

There are thousands of people who have never seen (and are not likely ever to see) the interesting capital of Massachusetts, to whom, however, this volume will recommend itself, for various reasons. Boston is especially dear to us Americans and reading Mr. Drake’s well-written volume is like reading the record of the sayings and doings of the colonialists.

Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston.

Format: eBook.

Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston

ISBN: 9783849663018.

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INTRODUCTION.

AN old Boston divine says, ” It would be no unprofitable thing for you to pass over the several streets and call to mind who lived … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Hamilton’s Itinerarium – Alexander Hamilton

Among the numerous journals and narratives of travel during the Colonial period, few are so lively and so full of good-humored comment on people and customs as the Itinerarium of Dr. Hamilton. The subject of this volume is a journey which Dr. Hamilton undertook in 1744, leaving Annapolis May 30, and travelling overland northward through New Castle, Wilmington, and Chester to Philadelphia. Mr. Hasell, of Barbados, whom he had expected to travel with him from Annapolis, he found at Philadelphia, where he stayed a week. June 13, he resumed his journey and spent three days on the road to New York, crossing the Delaware near Bristol, and passing through Trenton and Princeton to Perth Amboy; … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Burnaby’s Travels through North America – Andrew Burnaby

“Travels Through North America,” by Andrew Burnaby, was originally published in London and this reprint is from the third edition of 1798. It is somewhat amusing to read the prognostications of the keen-eyed and quick-brained doctor of divinity, when he says: “He still thinks that the present union of the American States will not be permanent or last for any considerable length of time; that that extensive country must necessarily be divided into separate states and kingdoms; and that America will never, at least for many ages, become formidable to Europe, etc.” What would he think were he to be able to visit us now? He is a wise prophet who knows … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...