 | Emily Charlotte De Burgh-Canning Boyle Countess of Cork and Orrery - 1903 - 414 Seiten
...a pure Air, we abound in all kinds of Provisions without expence (I mean we who have Plantations). I have a large Family of my own, and my Doors are...every Soart of Trade amongst my own Servants, so that 1 live in a kind of Independence on every one but Providence. However tho' this Soart of Life is without... | |
 | Willie Lee Rose - 1982 - 241 Seiten
...of life in Virginia in a letter to the Earl of Orrery: "I have a large Family of my own," he wrote. "Like one of the Patriarchs, I have my Flocks and my Herds, my Bonds-men and Bond-women." He had to "take care to keep all my people to their Duty, to set all the... | |
 | Mechal Sobel - 1987 - 380 Seiten
...patriarchal garden of industrious work. His new vision equated the Garden with a mechanical clock: Like one of the patriarchs, I have my flocks and my herds, my bondmen, and bond-women. . . . I must take care to keep all my people to their duty, to set all the springs in motion, and to... | |
 | Michael Mullin - 1992 - 436 Seiten
...described his life of "contentment" in the "silent country" as akin to that of a patriarch in arcadia. "Like one of the patriarchs, I have my flocks and...amongst my own servants, so that I live in a kind of independence on every one, but Providence. ... We are very happy in our Canaans if we could but forget... | |
 | Benjamin Bowser - 1995 - 364 Seiten
...without expence i I mean we who have Plantations). 1 have a large Family of my own. and my doors arc open to Every Body yet I have no Bills to pay, and...Herds, my Bond-men and Bond-women, and every Soart [sort] of Trade amongst my own Servants, so that 1 live in a kind of Independence on every one but... | |
 | Peter W. Bardaglio - 1998 - 388 Seiten
...in an oft-cited passage: "I have a large Family of my own, and my Doors are open to Every Body. ... Like one of the Patriarchs, I have my Flocks and my...amongst my own Servants, so that I live in a kind of Independence on every one but Providence." Of course, this remark ignored the reality that the very... | |
 | David Thomas Konig - 1995 - 396 Seiten
...William Byrd II had boasted to an English correspondent about his preeminent position on his plantation. "Like one of the patriarchs, I have my flocks and my herds, my bonds-men and bond women, and every soart of trade amongst my own servants so that I live in a kind... | |
 | Werner Sollors - 1997 - 593 Seiten
...have a large Family of my own, and my Doors are open to Every Body, yet I have no Bills to pay, and a half-a-Crown will rest undisturbed in my Pocket for...amongst my own Servants, so that I live in a kind of Independence on every one but Providence.5 1 For Byrd, leading the good life of a biblical Patriarch,... | |
 | Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, Fredrika J. Teute - 1997 - 488 Seiten
...genteel is William Byrd's, in a letter from the 17205, as quoted in Lockridge, Diary, and Life, 123-124: "Like one of the patriarchs, I have my flocks and my herds, my bond-men and bond-women ... so that I live in a kind of independence on everyone, but Providence I must take care to keep all... | |
 | Robin Blackburn - 1998 - 612 Seiten
...family of my own, and my Doors are open to Every Body, yet I have no Bills to pay, and half a Crown will rest undisturbed in my Pocket for many Moons...amongst my own Servants, so that I live in a kind of Independence of everyone but Providence. However this soart of life is attended without expense, yet... | |
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I have a large family of my own, and my doors are open to every body, yet I have no bills to pay, and half-a-Crown will rest undisturbed in my pocket for many moons together. Like one of the patriarchs... 
