The Republican Court or American Society in the Days of Washington: With 21 Portr. of Distinguished Woman Engraved from Original Pictures by Woolaston ... and Other Contemporary Painters
The Republican Court or American Society in the Days of Washington: With 21 Portr. of Distinguished Woman Engraved from Original Pictures by Woolaston ... and Other Contemporary Painters
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...old trees, and ran back to what is now Minor street, where the stables stood. All is now gone. Not a trace is left of that once venerable and stately residence, for it had intrinsically something of the latter characteristic by its detached situation, and the space left around it for accommodation on all sides. To the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...old trees, and ran back to what is now Minor street, where the stables stood. All is now gone. Not a trace is left of that once venerable and stately residence, for it had intrinsically something of the latter characteristic by its detached situation, and the space left around it for accommodation on all sides. To the west no building adjoined it, the nearest house in that direction standing at a fair distance from it, at the corner of Sixth and Market streets, where lived Robert Morris, one of the great men of the revolution, and the well known friend of Washington. What hallowed recollections did not that neighborhood awaken 1 The career of Washington, his consummate wisdom, his transcendant services, his full-orbed glory, his spotless, matchiess fame 1 Let no future Plutarch, said one of his biographers, attempt a parallel; let none among the dead or living appear in the same picture with him. He stands alone. In the annais of time, it is recorded as the single glory of republican America, to have given to the world such an example of human perfection. History has consecrated it to the instruction of mankind; and happy if republican America shall cleave to the maxims which he bequeathed to her in a paper pronounced, by an eminent English historian, to be unequalled by any composition of uninspired wisdom. la regard to servants, he had already written to Mr. Lear: "The pressure of business under which I labored for several days before I left New York allowed me no time to inquire who of the female servants it was proposed or thought advisable to remove here, besides the wives of the footmen, James and Fidas With respect to Mr. Hyde and his wife, if it is not stated on some paper handed in by Mr. Hyde, it is nevertheless strong on my recollection, tha...
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