Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in PADepicting his life from his childhood in Pennsylvania to his time as a public official, including his experiences recruiting and training his own troops for the Revolutionary War, Graydon's memoirs provide a unique and personal view of the American Colonial period. First published in 1811, his memoirs were not initially popular, probably because of their inflammatory remarks about public figures ranging from Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson and his followers. Memoirs of a Life Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania shows Graydon's disdain for those he saw as seduced by power and money and leaves the reader with a critical view of some of the most popular figures of his time. |
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... mentioned . " And also to the act entitled , " An act supplementary to an act , entitled " An act for the encouragement of learning , by securing the copies of maps , charts and books , to the authors and proprietors of such * copies ...
... mentioned . " And also to the act entitled , " An act supplementary to an act , entitled " An act for the encouragement of learning , by securing the copies of maps , charts and books , to the authors and proprietors of such * copies ...
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... mentioned , and was a very worthy man , possessing a good natural understand- ing , with a strong addiction to philosophical specu- lations . His attachment to my father went beyond friendship : it reached to admiration and veneration ...
... mentioned , and was a very worthy man , possessing a good natural understand- ing , with a strong addiction to philosophical specu- lations . His attachment to my father went beyond friendship : it reached to admiration and veneration ...
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... mention a circumstance of another na- ture , which happened not very long after my arrival in the city . One evening about dusk , I was amus- ing myself on the pavement before the door , with some marbles ; for having never been very ...
... mention a circumstance of another na- ture , which happened not very long after my arrival in the city . One evening about dusk , I was amus- ing myself on the pavement before the door , with some marbles ; for having never been very ...
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... mentioned , that he was a warm admirer of the ballad of Sally of the al- Ley . I once , when very young , heard my mother sing it over a cradle , and was so enraptured with its simple pathos , that I was continually importuning her to ...
... mentioned , that he was a warm admirer of the ballad of Sally of the al- Ley . I once , when very young , heard my mother sing it over a cradle , and was so enraptured with its simple pathos , that I was continually importuning her to ...
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... mentioned , came to this country a married man , and was about twenty years older than my mother . Though he died possessed of a large and valuable landed property in the neighborhood of Bristol , consisting of an equal part of one ...
... mentioned , came to this country a married man , and was about twenty years older than my mother . Though he died possessed of a large and valuable landed property in the neighborhood of Bristol , consisting of an equal part of one ...
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