The Republican Court: Or, American Society in the Days of WashingtonD. Appleton, 1855 - 408 من الصفحات |
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... ladies , at Bethlehem . About one hundred and twenty of them live together under the same roof ; they sleep all together , in the same garret ; I saw one hundred and twenty beds , in two long rows , in the same room ; the beds and ...
... ladies , at Bethlehem . About one hundred and twenty of them live together under the same roof ; they sleep all together , in the same garret ; I saw one hundred and twenty beds , in two long rows , in the same room ; the beds and ...
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... Lady Temple , " an angel in the disguise of umes , * Francis Jean , Marquis de Chastellux , litterateur , philosopher , and soldier , was born of a noble family in Paris in 1734. He was elected in 1775 one of the forty members of the ...
... Lady Temple , " an angel in the disguise of umes , * Francis Jean , Marquis de Chastellux , litterateur , philosopher , and soldier , was born of a noble family in Paris in 1734. He was elected in 1775 one of the forty members of the ...
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... ladies were obliged to have their heads dressed between four and six o'clock in the morning . At seven o'clock in the even- ing , the hour appointed for the meeting of the company , it was believed that the streets , in the immediate ...
... ladies were obliged to have their heads dressed between four and six o'clock in the morning . At seven o'clock in the even- ing , the hour appointed for the meeting of the company , it was believed that the streets , in the immediate ...
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... ladies and gentlemen of the most ancient as well as of the most modern families . Here were lawyers , doctors , and ministers of the Gospel . Here were the learned faculty of the college , and among them many who knew not whether Cicero ...
... ladies and gentlemen of the most ancient as well as of the most modern families . Here were lawyers , doctors , and ministers of the Gospel . Here were the learned faculty of the college , and among them many who knew not whether Cicero ...
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... ladies here know how to entertain com- pany in their own houses , unless they introduce the card - table . Except the Van Hornes , who are remarkable for their good sense and ease , I don't know a woman or girl who can chat above half ...
... ladies here know how to entertain com- pany in their own houses , unless they introduce the card - table . Except the Van Hornes , who are remarkable for their good sense and ease , I don't know a woman or girl who can chat above half ...
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الصفحة 143 - 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 144 - ... 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 5 - 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 5 - 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 356 - ... 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 182 - Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.
الصفحة 143 - 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 143 - 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 142 - I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years...
الصفحة 75 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.