Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Volumen3The Society, 1900 |
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Página 50 - Ah ! what would the world be to us If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Página 152 - The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring about thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables...
Página 289 - Be it enacted by the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of the city of Washington...
Página 331 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Página 328 - In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the United States to be hereunto fixed.
Página 325 - AN ACT for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States.
Página 186 - Commissioners appointed to provide suitable buildings for the accommodation of Congress and of the President, and for the public offices of the Government...
Página 329 - Congress may by law direct, shall be, and the same is hereby forever ceded and relinquished to the Congress and Government of the United States, in full and absolute right, and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the government of the United States.
Página 106 - gay creature of the elements" had not taken his place contentedly, where nature had assigned it, as one of the ornamental performers of the time! His station was with the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin.
Página 158 - There are, in fact, but few houses in any one place, and most of them small, miserable huts, which present an awful contrast to the public buildings. The people are poor, and, as far as I can judge, they live like fishes, by eating each other. . . . You may look .in almost any direction, over an extent of ground nearly as large as the city of New York, without seeing a fence or any object except brick-kilns and temporary huts for laborers.