The Washington Sketch BookMohun, Ebbs & Hough, 1864 - 273 Seiten |
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... carrying arms , am- munition and food to the Patent Office , the Post Office , the Treasury and the Capitol , while the arches in the basements of the two last - named buildings were filled with firewood and other materials as ...
... carrying arms , am- munition and food to the Patent Office , the Post Office , the Treasury and the Capitol , while the arches in the basements of the two last - named buildings were filled with firewood and other materials as ...
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... carry every point , that they could not realize the possibility of her fail- ing now . One report had it that a plan was on foot by the secession mob to fire the town in many places at once , and , in the confusion , make it an easy ...
... carry every point , that they could not realize the possibility of her fail- ing now . One report had it that a plan was on foot by the secession mob to fire the town in many places at once , and , in the confusion , make it an easy ...
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... carrying into execution the foregoing powers . This Article appears to have been assented to in the Convention without debate . In the Virginia Convention , some fears were expressed as to the influence to be exerted by a spot so ...
... carrying into execution the foregoing powers . This Article appears to have been assented to in the Convention without debate . In the Virginia Convention , some fears were expressed as to the influence to be exerted by a spot so ...
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... carry this resolution into effect , much feeling was mani- fested by the southern members , and particular- ly by those from Virginia , who earnestly con- tended that the banks of the Potomac was the most suitable location . Mr. Madison ...
... carry this resolution into effect , much feeling was mani- fested by the southern members , and particular- ly by those from Virginia , who earnestly con- tended that the banks of the Potomac was the most suitable location . Mr. Madison ...
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... carried into effect until the State of Pennsylvania , or individual citizens of the same , should give security to pay one hundred thousand dollars to be employed in erecting the public buildings . These amend- ments were agreed to by ...
... carried into effect until the State of Pennsylvania , or individual citizens of the same , should give security to pay one hundred thousand dollars to be employed in erecting the public buildings . These amend- ments were agreed to by ...
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acres Adele advantage ALAMEDA Alexandria appearance appropriate Arsenal artists Assembly of Maryland auburn color avenue Baltimore Barron beautiful Bridge Bunker Hill Monument called capital Capitol Carleton centre chapel church coffin columns Commissioners Daniel Carroll Department dome Eastern Branch edifice erected establishment executive Federal City feet foreign Fort Sumner forts front furnished Georgetown give ground Hill hundred immense improvement ington interest John Cotton Smith ladies letter look mansion marble Maryland ment miles monument Mount Vernon Navy Yard object occupied ornamental painted Patent Office Pennsylvania Pennsylvania avenue permanent Seat Philadelphia population portico position Potomac present President President's House public buildings remark removed river Seat of Government seemed seen Senate shoemack side Sir Augustus Smithsonian Institution square statue street supposed tion town Treasury Union United Virginia vote Washington Welden whole York
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Seite 153 - I bequeath the whole of my property to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Seite 206 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Seite 23 - to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Seite 31 - ... him ; and that the question having been lost by a small majority only, it was probable that an appeal from me to the judgment and discretion of some of my friends, might effect a change in the vote, and the machine of government, now suspended, might be again set into motion.
Seite 205 - THIS is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms ; But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms. Ah ! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys ! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with their awful symphonies...
Seite 74 - Church is intended for national purposes, such as public prayer, thanksgiving, funeral orations etc., and assigned to the special use of no particular Sect or denomination, but equally open to all. It will be likewise a proper shelter for such monuments as were voted by the late Continental Congress for those heroes who fell in the cause of liberty, and for such others as may hereafter be decreed by the voice of a grateful Nation.
Seite 36 - Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings be interrupted with impunity ; but a dependence of the members of the General Government on the State comprehending the seat of the Government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might bring on the National Councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the Government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy.
Seite 84 - This Southeast corner-stone of the Capitol of the United States of America, in the City of Washington, was laid on the 18th day of September, 1793, in the thirteenth year of American independence, in the first year of the second term of the presidency of George Washington, whose virtues in the civil administration of his country have been as conspicuous and beneficial, as his military valor and prudence have been useful in establishing her...
Seite 168 - Resolved unanimously, (ten States being present,) that an equestrian statue of General Washington be erected at the place where the residence of Congress shall be established.
Seite 32 - The discussion took place. I could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it. But it was finally agreed, that whatever importance had been attached to the rejection of this proposition, the preservation of the Union and of concord among the States was more important, and that therefore it would be better that the vote of rejection should be rescinded, to effect which, some members should change their votes.