The Ladies of the White House: Or, In the Home of the Presidents : Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents from Washington to Hayes--1789-1880Bradley & Company, 1881 - 682 من الصفحات |
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... JOHNSON 66 " 6 546 66 66 MARTHA PATTERSON 573 66 64 MRS . ULYSSES S. GRANT 603 6 66 NELLIE GRANT SARTORIS . 612 LUCY WEBB HAYES . LUCRETIA RUDOLPH GARFIELD . 66 66 628 66 46 665 MOUNT VERNON ... ( wood cut ) .. 66 55 66 66 MONTICELLO ...
... JOHNSON 66 " 6 546 66 66 MARTHA PATTERSON 573 66 64 MRS . ULYSSES S. GRANT 603 6 66 NELLIE GRANT SARTORIS . 612 LUCY WEBB HAYES . LUCRETIA RUDOLPH GARFIELD . 66 66 628 66 46 665 MOUNT VERNON ... ( wood cut ) .. 66 55 66 66 MONTICELLO ...
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... Johnson , a Maryland patriot - United States Commis- sioner in France until 1782 - Consul to London - Mr . Adams a guest of Mr. Johnson - Meets his future wife - Marriage in 1797 - Mr . Adams takes his bride to Berlin - Four years ...
... Johnson , a Maryland patriot - United States Commis- sioner in France until 1782 - Consul to London - Mr . Adams a guest of Mr. Johnson - Meets his future wife - Marriage in 1797 - Mr . Adams takes his bride to Berlin - Four years ...
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... Johnson's considerate course- —Final departure of Mrs. Lincoln — Death of Tad - Subsequent life of Mrs. Lincoln - In ill - health - Travels abroad - Petitions Congress for a pension - Restless and depressed in spirit - The end of her ...
... Johnson's considerate course- —Final departure of Mrs. Lincoln — Death of Tad - Subsequent life of Mrs. Lincoln - In ill - health - Travels abroad - Petitions Congress for a pension - Restless and depressed in spirit - The end of her ...
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... Johnson's devotion to her husband's interests - Death of their mothers -Mr . Johnson a member of the Legislature and Governor of Tennessee— His wife remains in Greenville - Her children's education her care - Their Greenville home ...
... Johnson's devotion to her husband's interests - Death of their mothers -Mr . Johnson a member of the Legislature and Governor of Tennessee— His wife remains in Greenville - Her children's education her care - Their Greenville home ...
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... JOHNSON PATTERSON . Like her father in personal appearance and character - A strong , earnest woman - Description of her mental characteristics - Her executive ability and energy - The pleasant manners of the President's daughter - An ...
... JOHNSON PATTERSON . Like her father in personal appearance and character - A strong , earnest woman - Description of her mental characteristics - Her executive ability and energy - The pleasant manners of the President's daughter - An ...
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الصفحة 46 - I should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad, if my stay were to be seven times seven years. But as it has been a kind of destiny that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
الصفحة 41 - Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
الصفحة 310 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
الصفحة 102 - Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
الصفحة 46 - It was utterly out of my power to refuse^ this appointment, without exposing my character to such censures as would have reflected dishonor upon myself, and given pain to my friends. This, I am sure, could not and ought not to be pleasing to you, and must have lessened me considerably in my own esteem.
الصفحة 47 - I shall feel no pain from the toil or the danger of the campaign ; my unhappiness will flow from the uneasiness I know you will feel from being left alone. I therefore beg that you will summon your whole fortitude, and pass your time as agreeably as possible. Nothing will give me so much sincere satisfaction as to hear this, and to hear it from your own pen.
الصفحة 363 - JUST as I am, without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come.
الصفحة 525 - events" of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing houses and lands, and oxen and asses, and men-servants and maid-servants, and begetting sons and daughters? We are not keeping house, but boarding at the Globe Tavern, which is very well kept now by a widow lady of the name of Beck. Our room (the same Dr. Wallace occupied there) and boarding only costs four dollars a week. Ann Todd was married something more than a year since to a fellow by the name of Campbell, and who, Mary says,...
الصفحة 61 - I feel dissatisfied with my present station ; for every body and every thing conspire to make me as contented as possible in it ; yet I have learned too much of the vanity of human affairs to expect felicity from the scenes of public life. I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be ; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.. We carry the seeds of the one or...
الصفحة 68 - Tis well,' said she in the same voice. ' All is now over ; I shall soon follow him ; I have no more trials to pass through.