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Domestic Manners of the Americans

This book offers an in-depth look at the everyday practices, social norms, and cultural nuances of American society in the early 1800s, providing valuable insights into the period's social dynamics and lifestyle. more

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Frances Trollope
Frances Trollope

Frances Trollope, born on March 10, 1779, and died on October 6, 1863, was a renowned British novelist known for her social satirical novels. more

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“Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficient to paralyze conversation. The women invariably herd together at one part of the room, and the men at the other ... The gentlemen spit, talk of elections and the price of produce, and spit again. The ladies look at each other's dresses till they know every pin by heart.”

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Author:Frances Trollope
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“I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.”

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“The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.”

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Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne
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