Books with title Lang Syne or The Wards of Mount Vernon

Title: Lang syne, or, The wards of Mount Vernon : a tale of the revolutionary era.<br /><br />Author: Mary Stuart Smith<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br />Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.<br /><br />Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.<br /><br />Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.<br /><br />++++<br />The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:<br />++++<br /><br />SourceLibrary: Huntington Library<br /><br />DocumentID: SABCP03176300<br /><br />CollectionID: CTRG00-B55<br /><br />PublicationDate: 18890101<br /><br />SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America<br /><br />Notes: Caption title.<br /><br />Collation: 133 p. ; 20 cm<br /><br />

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... this time of distress. Meanwhile a stray English paper had found its way into camp somehow detailing the account of the shipwreck of "The Amphrite," and moreover mentioning among the names of passengers lost, those of Lady Alice Germaine and her maid. So poor Alice's fate was no longer conjectural, and what was passing strange, the date tallied exactly with the night and hour when Reginald Lewis had been first pierced with the conviction, that she, whom he had adored as living, must now be mourned as dead. Let the skeptic mock--the fact stands firm--the historian but chronicles incidents that have truly come to pass--leaving it to the philosopher to account for phenomena, whose primal causes lie far beyond our ken. Attaway's appearance in camp was indeed a boon to more than her afflicted brother. To what shall we liken the effect produced by the appearance of a modest girl amid such an environment as was hers in this case? If Ave say to a solitary rose amid a wilderness of thorns, we would not overdraw the mark. Oswald Caperton felt it to be no unfavorable time to press his suit, sanctioned as it was by her brother as well as uncle. The hours of social communion were sweetened by the rareness of their coming. And when the camp was broken up in spring, upon report of the British evacuation of Philadelphia, it seemed as if the pang of setting out for the wars was renewed on either side. Under Mrs. Washington's protection Attaway still remained, and the place chosen for their summer retreat was a delightful New Jersey farm house, selected as a point where they could probably, better than elsewhere, be kept informed as to the movements of the army--necessarily so uncertain--as well from its apparent security of position, as regarded invasion by the e...