The Republican Court, Or, American Society in the Days of WashingtonAppleton, 1867 - 481 من الصفحات |
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... passed through the corps of Light Infantry , and walked to Whitehall , where a barge awaited to convey him to Paulus Hook . The whole company followed in mute and solemn procession , their melancholy countenances displaying emotions ...
... passed through the corps of Light Infantry , and walked to Whitehall , where a barge awaited to convey him to Paulus Hook . The whole company followed in mute and solemn procession , their melancholy countenances displaying emotions ...
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... passed , To fly from Pleasure's fascinating chains , Nor waste my youth in dull inglorious scenes , Unswayed by interest , unappalled by fear , My actions open , and my purpose clear , With frank avowal was that course pursued Whose ...
... passed , To fly from Pleasure's fascinating chains , Nor waste my youth in dull inglorious scenes , Unswayed by interest , unappalled by fear , My actions open , and my purpose clear , With frank avowal was that course pursued Whose ...
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... passing through the town in a mail - coach , at night , left his card for her at the post - office . The death of her ... passed the closing years of her life in poverty and seclusion with the removal of Congress from the city , but PEACE 21.
... passing through the town in a mail - coach , at night , left his card for her at the post - office . The death of her ... passed the closing years of her life in poverty and seclusion with the removal of Congress from the city , but PEACE 21.
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... passed down the opposite street , and gave to it its name . แ Turning into this street we seemned , at last , to have entered a city of the living . There stood the old Presbyterian meetinghouse : not that which lately crossed the ferry ...
... passed down the opposite street , and gave to it its name . แ Turning into this street we seemned , at last , to have entered a city of the living . There stood the old Presbyterian meetinghouse : not that which lately crossed the ferry ...
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... Passing the Bowling Green , with a somewhat triumphant glance at the pedes- tal in its centre from which the leaden image of George the Third had been dethroned , we found ourselves advancing into the Burnt District , in nearly the same ...
... Passing the Bowling Green , with a somewhat triumphant glance at the pedes- tal in its centre from which the leaden image of George the Third had been dethroned , we found ourselves advancing into the Burnt District , in nearly the same ...
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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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