 | 1820 - 490 pages
...severe satire on the more fashionable manners of the present possessors of tho city of New York. ' In those good days of simplicity and sunshine, a passion...character which formed the utmost ambition of our onenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new year's... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...metropolis ; the most staunch and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weather-cock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly...trusty servant employed every morning to climb up and point it whichever way the wind blew. In those good days of simplicity and sunshine, a passion for... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...metropolis ; the most stanch and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly...trusty servant employed every morning to climb up and point it whichever way the wind blew. In those good days of simplicity and sunshine, a passion for... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1825 - 356 pages
...metropolis ; the most stanch and loyal citizens, however, always went acccording to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly...trusty servant employed every morning to climb up and point it whichever way the wind blew. In those good days of simplicity and sunshine, passion for cleanliness... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (N.Y.) - 1826 - 452 pages
...his mind; — the most stanch and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly...principle in domestic economy, and the universal test oi" an able housewife — a character which formed the utmost ambition of our unenlightened grandmoPASSION... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1828 - 354 pages
...metropolis ; the most stanch and loyal citizens, however, always went acccording to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly...he had a trusty servant employed every morning to climh up and point it whichever way the wind hlew. In those good days of simplicity and sunshine, passion... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1831 - 522 pages
...his mind ; — the most staunch and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly the most correct, as he had a ttusty servant employed every morning to climb up and set it to the right quarter. In those good days... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Literary Criticism - 1848 - 662 pages
...his mind ;—the most staunch and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the Governor's house, which was certainly...domestic economy, and the universal test of an able housewife—a character which formed the utmost ambition of our unenlightened grandmothers. The front... | |
 | Washington Irving - Dutch Americans - 1848 - 472 pages
...to his mind;—the most stanch and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly...domestic economy, and the universal test of an able housewife—a character which formed the utmost ambition of our unenlightened grandmothers. The front... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 472 pages
...his mind ; — the most stanch and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly...morning to climb up and set it to the right quarter. In-those good days of simplicity and sunshine, a passion for cleanliness was the leading principle... | |
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... and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly the most correct, as he had a trusty servant employed every morning to climb up and set it to the right quarter. 
