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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... received - No handshaking in those days - The grandchildren of Mrs. Washington - Mrs . Robert Morris receives with Mrs. Washington - The Marchioness d'Yuro - The first levee in Philadel- phia the most brilliant occasion of the kind ever ...
... received - No handshaking in those days - The grandchildren of Mrs. Washington - Mrs . Robert Morris receives with Mrs. Washington - The Marchioness d'Yuro - The first levee in Philadel- phia the most brilliant occasion of the kind ever ...
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... received in the Library - Mrs . Adams ill - Returns to Quincy , Massa- chusetts - In the White House four months - Attends to her husband's pri- vate affairs - Cheerful and bright under all circumstances - Retirement of Mr. Adams from ...
... received in the Library - Mrs . Adams ill - Returns to Quincy , Massa- chusetts - In the White House four months - Attends to her husband's pri- vate affairs - Cheerful and bright under all circumstances - Retirement of Mr. Adams from ...
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... Received President Jefferson's guests with him— Election of Mr. Madison to succeed Jefferson - Mrs . Madison hostess of the White House - Stiffness and formality laid aside - Mrs . Madison never for- getful of a name or face - Her field ...
... Received President Jefferson's guests with him— Election of Mr. Madison to succeed Jefferson - Mrs . Madison hostess of the White House - Stiffness and formality laid aside - Mrs . Madison never for- getful of a name or face - Her field ...
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... received visits but returned none - Her " drawing - rooms " were largely attended - An English writer's comments - Held once a fortnight on Wednesday evenings - The condition of the White House - The grounds unimproved - Congress orders ...
... received visits but returned none - Her " drawing - rooms " were largely attended - An English writer's comments - Held once a fortnight on Wednesday evenings - The condition of the White House - The grounds unimproved - Congress orders ...
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... Received her company sitting - Great dignity of Mrs. Polk - A daughter of the old school - A woman of strict decorum - No dancing allowed in the White House - Mis . Polk's admirers - Her personal appear- ance - Excellent taste in dress ...
... Received her company sitting - Great dignity of Mrs. Polk - A daughter of the old school - A woman of strict decorum - No dancing allowed in the White House - Mis . Polk's admirers - Her personal appear- ance - Excellent taste in dress ...
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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.