The Republican Court, Or, American Society in the Days of WashingtonAppleton, 1867 - 481 من الصفحات |
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... senators of our country , to print but eighty copies of their plan of confederation , and to bind themselves , their secretary , and their printer , alike , to an inviolable silence as to the contents of the paper , and to lay all under ...
... senators of our country , to print but eighty copies of their plan of confederation , and to bind themselves , their secretary , and their printer , alike , to an inviolable silence as to the contents of the paper , and to lay all under ...
الصفحة 119
... Senate was also ready for business . This first Congress under the Constitution em- braced a large portion of the talents , experience and respectability of the country . John Langdon , Oliver Ellsworth , Charles Carroll , Richard Henry ...
... Senate was also ready for business . This first Congress under the Constitution em- braced a large portion of the talents , experience and respectability of the country . John Langdon , Oliver Ellsworth , Charles Carroll , Richard Henry ...
الصفحة 120
... Senate chamber and the galleries . The vestibule was paved with marble , and was very lofty , and elegantly finished . The lower part was of a light rough stone , which supported a handsome iron gallery , and the upper part , which was ...
... Senate chamber and the galleries . The vestibule was paved with marble , and was very lofty , and elegantly finished . The lower part was of a light rough stone , which supported a handsome iron gallery , and the upper part , which was ...
الصفحة 121
... Senate chamber was approached by the stairs on the east side of the vestibule , through an ante - chamber , nineteen feet wide and forty - eight feet long , finished with Tuscan pilasters , and com- municating with the iron gallery ...
... Senate chamber was approached by the stairs on the east side of the vestibule , through an ante - chamber , nineteen feet wide and forty - eight feet long , finished with Tuscan pilasters , and com- municating with the iron gallery ...
الصفحة 134
... others were heard to say they should now die contented , nothing having been wanted previous to this auspicious time but a sight of the Saviour of his Country . " John Adams , in a speech to the senate on 134 THE REPUBLICAN COURT .
... others were heard to say they should now die contented , nothing having been wanted previous to this auspicious time but a sight of the Saviour of his Country . " John Adams , in a speech to the senate on 134 THE REPUBLICAN COURT .
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الصفحة 4 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
الصفحة 146 - ... of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency ; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude,...
الصفحة 7 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping.
الصفحة 7 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
الصفحة 145 - In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is, that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected.
الصفحة 416 - ... every act of my administration would be tortured, and the grossest and most insidious misrepresentations of them be made, by giving one side only of a subject, and that, too, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.
الصفحة 145 - Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential...
الصفحة 145 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
الصفحة 127 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
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