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But the diaries and letters placed in my hands lightened the work of composition, and it has been a labor of affection as well as of duty to pay what tribute I might to the memory of two of the noblest women of the country, whom I learned to love and venerate during a residence of nearly two years under the same roof, and who, to the end of their lives, honored me with their friendship.\r\n\n\r\nThirst for knowledge, 17. Religious impressions, 19. Providence interposes, 21. Their father's death-bed, 23. Sarah and slavery, 25. Salvation by works, 27. The Friends, 29. Sarah resists the call, 31. Sarah leaves Charleston, 33.\r\n\n\r\nPractical efforts, 133. Visit to Providence, 135. The sisters differ, 137. Elizur Wright's invitation, 139. Asking advice of Sarah, 141. The last straw, 143. Sarah resolves to leave Philadelphia, 145. Angelina's A.S. feelings, 147. 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Dessein de l'auteur.II. Milieu o Mlle Dillon passa ses premires\r\nannes.Son grand-oncle Arthur Dillon, archevque de Narbonne.Son\r\npre Arthur Dillon, 6e colonel propritaire du rgiment de Dillon.Sa\r\nmre, dame du Palais.Sa grand'mre Mme de Rothe: son caractre altier\r\net emport, sa haine pour sa fille.III. Rsultat sur le caractre de\r\nMlle Dillon, l'auteur de ces mmoires.Son enfance triste et sa prcoce\r\nexprience.Elle est prserve de la contagion par sa bonne, la\r\npaysanne Marguerite.IV. Murs de la socit,  la fin du XVIIIe\r\nsicle, avant la Rvolution.Fortune et manire de vivre de\r\nl'archevque de Narbonne.La toilette des hommes et des femmes.Les\r\ndners, les soupers. Les bals plus rares qu'aujourd'hui.V. Le chteau\r\nde Hautefontaine: la vie qu'on y menait.Louis XVI jaloux de l'quipage\r\nde Hautefontaine. dix ans, Mlle Dillon se casse la jambe  la chasse.\r\nOn lui joue des pices de thtre au pied de son lit, on lui fait la\r\nlecture de romans.Dveloppement de son got pour les ouvrages\r\nd'imagination.VI. Sjour  Versailles en 1781.Le bal des gardes du\r\ncorps, aprs la naissance du premier Dauphin.Rapprochement entre cette\r\nbrillante prosprit et les malheurs qui suivirent.La reine et Mmes de\r\nPolignac.Amiti de la reine pour Mme Dillon.VII. 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Malgr son grand ge, l'auteur entreprend la seconde partie de ses\r\nmmoires.II. A welcome breakfast.Curiosit des Franais de Boston\r\nmal satisfaite.Adieux  l'quipage de la Diane.La joie d'tre en\r\npays ami.Le plaisir d'un bon djeuner aprs deux mois de\r\nprivations.Installation provisoire  Boston.III. M. Geyer.La\r\nchienne Black.Sympathie des habitants de Boston pour les nouveaux\r\nmigrs.Le gnral Schuyler.Vente des effets inutiles.IV. Une\r\nhistoire d'amour.V. Dpart pour Albany.Mme de La Tour du Pin apprend\r\nla mort de son pre.Une fort vierge.La maison de bois.Une belle\r\nfamille.Une sant  Washington.L'auberge de Lebanon.Le compagnon\r\nde lit de M. de Chambeau.VI. Arrive  Albany.Incendie de la ville\r\npar les ngres.Aimable accueil du gnral Schuyler et de la famille\r\nRenslar.Un songe ralis.Le Petroon.Mme Renslar.Talleyrand\r\nen Amrique.\nIl est probablement trs prsomptueux de continuer  rdiger ses\r\nmmoires  soixante-treize ans moins dix jours[1]. Mais ayant fini\r\naujourd'hui de copier la partie que j'en avais crite sur des feuilles\r\nvolantes, je vous prviens, mon cher fils[2], que vous aurez le reste si\r\nDieu le permet, avec ou sans rature, tant que je conserverai un peu de\r\nforce, de raison et des yeux pour guider ma main. Une entreprise de ce\r\ngenre exige surtout de la mmoire, et il me semble que je ne l'ai pas\r\ntout  fait perdue. Vous savez que j'ai conserv celle du pass tout\r\nautant que celle du prsent, et cette dernire ravive en moi des\r\nsouvenirs peut-tre aussi pnibles que ceux des temps plus anciens,\r\nquels qu'aient t les malheurs qui ont assombri ma longue vie.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 29164 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 19, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: French \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Liedekerke-Beaufort, Aymar Marie Ferdinand de, comte, 1846- \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon \/ eBook \/ French","offer_id":43219132186781,"sku":"gb-29164-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/29164.jpg?v=1671515727"},{"product_id":"the-westerners-gb-34399","title":"The Westerners","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Westerners\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nA tourist of to-day, peering from the window of his vestibule train at\r\nthe electric-lit vision of Three Rivers, as it stars the banks of the\r\nMissouri like a constellation against the blackness of the night, would\r\nnever recognize, in the trim little modern town, the old Three Rivers\r\nof the early seventies.\r\n\n\r\nTo restore the latter, he should first of all sweep the ground bare of\r\nthe buildings which now adorn it, leaving, perhaps, here and there an\r\nisolated old shanty of boards far advanced toward dissolution.  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And for the latter-day\r\ncitizens, whose police record is so discouraging to the ambitious\r\nchief, and so creditable to themselves, he must imagine a multitude\r\nmore heterogeneous, perhaps, than could be gathered anywhere else in\r\nthe worldtenderfeet from the East; mountaineers from Tennessee and\r\nKentucky, bearing their historic long pea rifles; soft-voiced\r\nVirginians; keen, alert woodsmen from the North; wiry, silent trappers\r\nand scouts from the West; and here and there a straight Indian,\r\nstalking solemnly toward some one of the numerous \"whiskey joints.\"\r\nThe court-house site he would find crowded with canvas wagons, noisy\r\nwith the shrill calling of women and children.  Where Judge Oglethorpe\r\nhas recently erected his stone mansion, Frank Byers would be running a\r\nwell-patronized saloon.  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It was in a Bible-class in Manteno,\r\nKankakee County, Illinois, that I defended some religious opinions which\r\nconflicted with the Creed of the Presbyterian Church in that place, which\r\nbrought upon me the charge of insanity. It was at the invitation of Deacon\r\nDole, the teacher of that Bible-class, that I consented to become his\r\npupil, and it was at his special request that I brought forward my views\r\nto the consideration of the class. The class numbered six when I entered\r\nit, and forty-six when I left it. I was about four months a member of it.\r\nI had not the least suspicion of danger or harm arising in any way, either\r\nto myself or others, from thus complying with his wishes, and thus\r\nuttering some of my honestly cherished opinions. I regarded the principle\r\nof religious tolerance as the vital principle on which our government was\r\nbased, and I in my ignorance supposed this right was protected to all\r\nAmerican citizens, even to the wives of clergymen. But, alas! my own sad\r\nexperience has taught me the danger of believing a lie on so vital a\r\nquestion. The result was, I was legally kidnapped and imprisoned three\r\nyears simply for uttering these opinions under these circumstances.\nI was kidnapped in the following manner.Early on the morning of the 18th\r\nof June, 1860, as I arose from my bed, preparing to take my morning bath,\r\nI saw my husband approaching my door with our two physicians, both members\r\nof his church and of our Bible-class,and a stranger gentleman, sheriff\r\nBurgess. Fearing exposure I hastily locked my door, and proceeded with the\r\ngreatest dispatch to dress myself. But before I had hardly commenced, my\r\nhusband forced an entrance into my room through the window with an axe!\r\nAnd I, for shelter and protection against an exposure in a state of almost\r\n[Pg 4]entire nudity, sprang into bed, just in time to receive my unexpected\r\nguests. The trio approached my bed, and each doctor felt my pulse, and\r\nwithout asking a single question both pronounced me insane. So it seems\r\nthat in the estimation of these two M. D.s, Dr. Merrick and Newkirk,\r\ninsanity is indicated by the action of the pulse instead of the mind! Of\r\ncourse, my pulse was bounding at the time from excessive fright; and I\r\nask, what lady of refinement and fine and tender sensibilities would not\r\nhave a quickened pulse by such an untimely, unexpected, unmanly, and even\r\noutrageous entrance into her private sleeping room? I say it would be\r\nimpossible for any woman, unless she was either insane or insensible to\r\nher surroundings, not to be agitated under such circumstances. This was\r\nthe only medical examination I had. This was the only trial of any kind\r\nthat I was allowed to have, to prove the charge of insanity brought\r\nagainst me by my husband. I had no chance of self defence whatever. 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The law was passed February 15, 1851.\nI told my husband I should not go voluntarily into the Asylum, and leave\r\nmy six children and my precious babe of eighteen months, without some kind\r\nof trial; and that the law of force, brute force, would be the only power\r\nthat should thus put me there. I then begged of him to handle me gently,\r\nif he was determined to force me, as I was easily hurt, and should make no\r\nphysical resistance. I was soon in the hands of the sheriff, who forced me\r\nfrom my home by ordering two men to carry me to the wagon which took me to\r\nthe depot. Esquire Labrie, our nearest neighbor, who witnessed this scene,\r\nsaid he was willing to testify before any court under oath, that Mrs.\r\nPackard was literally kidnapped. I was carried to the cars from the depot\r\nin the arms of two strong men, whom my husband appointed for this purpose,\r\namid the silent and almost speechless gaze of a large crowd of citizens\r\nwho had collected for the purpose of [Pg 5]rescuing me from the hands of my\r\npersecutors. But they were prevented from executing their purpose by the\r\nlie Deacon Dole was requested by my husband to tell the excited crowd,\r\nviz: that The Sheriff has legal papers to defend this proceeding, and\r\nthey well knew that for them to resist the Sheriff, the laws would expose\r\nthemselves to imprisonment. The Sheriff confessed afterwards to persons\r\nwho are now willing to testify under oath, that he told them that he did\r\nnot have a sign of a legal paper with him, simply because the probate\r\ncourt refused to give him any, because, as they affirmed, he had not given\r\nthem one evidence of insanity in the case. 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Here we renew our youth, and far from\r\ntumult and crowds, near to nature, we realize anew how\r\nlittle is required in order to be contented and happy.\r\nHere I am taken back to the memories of my childhood\r\nin the little town in Georgia where too our home was a\r\nlog house, but for appearances had the luxurious outer\r\nand inner dressing of clap-boarding painted white. The\r\nlogs of the upper story where we children played and slept\r\nhad no covering, which pleased us all the more.\nIn a highly organized society, we are often attracted\r\nby pomp and circumstance, rather than by qualities of\r\nheart and mind, which after all are the true measure of\r\nenlightenment. Here in these woods, fair dealings and\r\nhuman relations are not regulated by statutes, but by the\r\ngolden rule of conduct. We need not hide our possessions\r\nbehind locked doors, honesty is the accepted rule of life;\r\nthere are no treasures to hide and no bars to break.\nIt has been permitted me to do useful work and to\r\nhave interesting experiences. Privileged opportunities\r\nhave been afforded me for public service. Of these I\r\nwrite.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 39144 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 14, 2012 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Straus, Oscar S. 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