 With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found. We have been treated with an assiduous respect ; but I have not seen one real gentleman, one well-bred man, since I came to town. At their entertainments...  The North American Review - Stran 91857Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 strani
...there is no modesty, no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three...they will break out upon you again and talk away.' ' We have now stated the occasion on which Mr. Jay first appeared upon the theatre of affairs. We have... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 714 strani
...records the result : ' ' WITH ill the opulence and splendor, there Is very little of good breeding to bo found. We have been treated with an assiduous respect...prejudice. But the Fifth Avenue had not then been opened.' Perhaps some explanation of Mr. ADAMS'S indifferent opinion of his NewYork contemporaries of that period,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 718 strani
...no modesty, no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and altogether. If they aak you a question, before you can utter three words of...answer they will break out upon you again, and talk away.1 ' ' This is sufficiently explicit, certainly ; for a man who had been feasted to the point of... | |
 | James Parton - 1858 - 728 strani
...there is no modesty, no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three...they will break out upon you again, and talk away." New York strikes the Bostonian of to-day very much as it did John Adams in 1774. The Revolution did... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 strani
...which we should choose to see. With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found. We have been treated with...they will break out upon you again, and talk away. 24. Wednesday. This day Cushing and Paine went over to Long Island to dine with Phil Livingston. Adams... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1884 - 358 strani
...there is no modesty, no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three...they will break out upon you again, and talk away." But if Mr. Adams was a little pettish at not being listened to with a gentlemanlike deference by the... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 strani
...•well-bred man, since I came to town. At their entertainments there is no agreeable conversation ; there is no modesty, no attention to one another....they will break out upon you again, and talk away." They, however, soon discovered in New York, the vacillating and temporizing character of the times.... | |
 | Frank Bergen - 1898 - 60 strani
...there is no modesty ; no attention to one another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three...they will break out upon you again and talk away." We would hardly consider this courteous language about friends who had treated us with assiduous respect... | |
 | New York (State). Governor - 1899 - 930 strani
...which we should choose to see. " With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found. We have been treated with...they will break out upon you again, and talk away. "24. Wednesday. This day Cushing and Paine went over to Long Island to dine with Phil Livingston. Adams... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1912 - 356 strani
...another. They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before yon car utter three words of your answer, they will break out upon you again, and talk away." But if Mr. Adams was a little pettish at not. being listened to with a gentlemanlike deference by the... | |
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