Opis: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Vol. 7 - Litchfield Electus D.

Excerpt from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Vol. 7: An Early America Metropolis, February, 1921

Webster, and a host of others. There are memories here, too, of statesmen of our own generation who met and signed the treaty which ended the Russo-Japanese War. Portsmouth has played no mean part in history, but, after all, it is not that which holds for us its greatest interest. It is because it stands to-day, just as it stood more than a hundred years ago, simple and unostentatious, and yet clearly the home which must have been very gentle and very fine. They are still full of exquisite furniture and china which are the envy of collectors; portraits by Copley and other distinguished painters abound, and help us in imagination to see those gentlewomen of that early day with powdered hair and flowing silks. Colonial governors and other imposing dignitaries in velvets, young blades in knee-breeches and satin waistcoats, The Governor Langdon House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Built in 1784. of an early American Four Hundred. There is an atmosphere of elegance and refinement in the old city of Portsmouth not found often in America. The wealth of many other Colonial towns is physically more evident. Portsmouth has no street of wealthy nabobs like Chestnut Street in Salem: and even to such a discerning eye as that of George Washington, when he visited Portsmouth after his inauguration, the pine-built homes of Portsmouth seemed inconsiderable, compared to the brick mansions of Virginia. But these houses stand to-day a unique record of a civilization and a culture dining tables groaning under their weight of damask and silver, fine wines in glittering decanters, and the rarest of china from the Orient. it is a snug and well built city. Twice or three times fire had swept across it, and, rebuilt, it seems to have been each time better than before. Not a city of great mansions with outbuildings for slaves and other retainers, but a city of homes of high-bred, God-fearing gentlemen Tor if architecture can record, as it surely does, the character of a people, it writes large in Portsmouth the refinement and gentility of that early town.

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Szczegóły: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Vol. 7 - Litchfield Electus D.

Nazwa: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Vol. 7 An Early America Metropolis, February, 1921 (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Litchfield Electus D.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330426142
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 24
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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