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Common terms and phrasesacquaintance appeared attend aunt backgammon Battletown Beachwood Belmain better brother called carriage Charles City colonel consent conversation court court-house cousin Cutchins daughter dear dinner dress Edward Grayson Elms endeavouring eyes Fanny Buckley father favour favourite feel felt fortune Frank Barton Frederick Fredericksburg gave gentleman Gildon girl give hand happy Hawkinsville heard heart honour horses James River Julia Barton jury ladies land laugh leave lively look Louisa lover M'Culloch madam major Fawkner marry Matilda ment mind Miss Buckley Miss Grayson mistress morning mother Mount Vernon Nat Jones neral ness never New-York Northern Neck numbers party passed perceived Phill pleasure Primus racter recollection river road seemed sentiments shewed sister soon Steener sure taste tell ther thing thought tilda tion told took Trueheart turn venison walk ward wheat Williamsburg wish young Popular passagesPage 316 - ... natural at expressions of kind and amiable feelings — such as praise of their master, gratitude for his kindness, thanks for his goodness, praise of one another, and now and then a little humorous satire. Page 300 - The luxurious and social habits in which they were educated gave them all that polished and easy grace which is possessed by the highest classes in Europe. Page 300 - ... ease ; a nice sense of honour — a hatred of all that was little or mean — more fond of hospitality than show — great epicures at table — great lovers of Madeira wine, of horses, and' dogs— free at a jest, particularly after dinner, with a goodly store of family pride, and a moderate portion of learning — never disputing a bill, and seldom paying a debt, until, like their Madeira, it had acquired age ; scrupulously neat in their persons, but affecting plainness and simplicity in their... Page 299 - They were now asked out to dinner, where Gildon saw the same nice cookery he had commonly met with at Beachwood, and that far greater variety which the lower country affords. Mr. Barton was a specimen of that class of old-fashioned persons (the Virginia gentlemen), which is now nearly extinct. They were remarkable for their urbanity, frankness, and ease ; a nice sense of honour — a hatred of all that was little or mean... Page 131 - You are a sweet girl, Louisa ; it is the only request from the same person which I could be obliged to you for denying." He withdrew into the next room, and breaking open the seal with impatience, experienced that delight which can be known only to those whose feelings have been refined and sublimated by sentimental love... Page 119 - ... my old master, and now they are at the top of the pot ; and Phill tells me that Mrs. Fawkner is not willing for master Edward to marry her daughter, and that he an't rich enough. But I tell Phill if he... Page 215 - Here one met with the most cultivated minds, free from either the pedantry of rust that a life of study is apt to superinduce — the greatest simplicity of character, joined to the greatest polish of manners, and a style of delicate and even luxurious living, unaccompanied with that love of show and rivalry, which so often poisons social enjoyment. There were at that time, among the residents of this town, some fifteen or twenty families, who were in sufficiently easy circumstances to live well,... Page 294 - ... States) then every debtor would be obliged to do his utmost to repair the wrong he has done in contracting obligations he could not discharge. If his failure were the result of unforeseen difficulties, against which common prudence could not have guarded him ; or even granting a want of judgment, if his errors have been those of the head and not of the heart, and the majority of his creditors are satisfied that he hnd no fraudulent intent, he can have no difficulty in obtaining a release by surrendering... Page 217 - River on the other, afforded them a variety of the best fish— roch, perch, sturgeon, sheepshead, boneto, with the best oysters in the state, and a variety of wild fowl ; crabs, soft and hard, when in season, were abundant; venison was always to be procured from some of the large tracts of forest... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarRights Of Humans, Rights Of States: The Academic Legacy Of St ...Chad Vanderford - 2005 References from web pages14. Antebellum Fiction JSTOR: Southern Literature as History: Slavery in the Antebellum Novel Plantation Fiction Zeno Ackermann\doktor\ Bibliographic information
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