Excerpt: ... Washington. So I told Mr. Meriwether Lewis that the lady did indeed remind me of one I knew, but as she was at that moment (I had every reason to believe) safe with Mrs. O'Fallon at Mulberry Hill, it was impossible that it could be she. Then, though much disturbed by this chance resemblance and the thronging memories it awakened, I addressed myself once more to the debate. I was just in time to see rising to his feet the handsomest man in the Senate, as I had long before decided. Mr. Gouverneur Morris, with his ...
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Excerpt: ... Washington. So I told Mr. Meriwether Lewis that the lady did indeed remind me of one I knew, but as she was at that moment (I had every reason to believe) safe with Mrs. O'Fallon at Mulberry Hill, it was impossible that it could be she. Then, though much disturbed by this chance resemblance and the thronging memories it awakened, I addressed myself once more to the debate. I was just in time to see rising to his feet the handsomest man in the Senate, as I had long before decided. Mr. Gouverneur Morris, with his clean-cut, aristocratic features, his carefully curled peruke, his fine lace ruffles falling over his long white hands, and his immaculate stockings and pumps with their glittering buckles, was, to my mind, every inch the gentleman, and quite worthy to have called himself a blue-blooded Philadelphian, but that an unkind fate had given him New York for a birthplace. I was more than curious to know on which side he would be, and his opening sentence filled me with the assurance he was on the right side and every word was weighted. Clear-cut, each sentence dropped from his lips like a string of burnished jewels. "Had Spain the right to make this cession to France without our consent? Gentlemen have taken it for granted that she had. But I deny the position. No nation has a right to give to another a dangerous neighbor without her consent. He who renders me insecure, he who hazards my peace and exposes me to imminent danger, commits an act of hostility against Pg 240 me and gives me the rights consequent on that act. Suppose Great Britain should give to Algiers one of the Bahamas, and contribute thereby to establish a nest of pirates near your coast. Would you not consider it as an aggression? It is among the first limitations to the exercise of the rights of property that we must so use our own as not to injure another, and it is under the immediate sense of this restriction that nations are bound to act toward each other. "The possession of...
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Andre Castaigne & C.M. Relyea. Very Good. Book Printed after 1907. With ads. White-stamped red cloth. 1913 inked name verso front cover. Clean text. 32061 shelf.
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Castaigne, Andre and Relyea, C.M. Good. No dust jacket. Book Condition: Fair-good. Cover spine ends chipped. Cracked inside front cover spine. Front end page loose signature. Isolated soil spots throughout.
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Illustrated by Andre Castaigne and C. M. Relyea. Good with no dust jacket. Cover is soiled and scratched, with edgewear. Soiled closed edge. Mild spine slant. Owner's info on front endpage. Two pages have small tears and folds in top margin. Occasional smudges in margins. A minor gutter crack. Sound binding. Due to size and/or weight of the book I can only ship it domestic mail. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package.; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall; 460 pages.
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Very Good+ with no dustjacket. Writing inside the front cover and on the endpaper, else very nice and clean.; Illustrated by Andre Castaigne and C. M. Relyea.; Small 8vo 7½"-8"; 460 pages.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Castaigne, Andre; Relyea, C. M. Near Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Seventh printing. Red cloth with gold titles stamped on front board and spine. Boards with moderate shelf wear, spine head & heel gently bumped. Text block darkened from age with minor foxing. Previous owner's gift inscription on front end paper, minor offsetting of inscription on front paste down & DJ flap. DJ not clipped, darkened from age with minor chipping at corners. About 2" of loss at spine head and edge of front panel, obscures title.
