| N. P. Chipman - 1874 - 32 páginas
...of those sages or heroes whom their country has thought proper to celebrate. The situation of these squares is such that they are the most advantageously...whole city district, and connected by spacious avenues around the grand Federal improvements, and as contiguous to them, and at the same time as equally distant... | |
| Stilson Hutchins, Joseph West Moore - 1885 - 366 páginas
...of those sages or heroes whom their country has thought proper to celebrate. The situation of these squares is such that they are the most advantageously...settlements round these squares must soon become connected. This mode of taking possession of and improving the whole district at first must leave to posterity... | |
| Stilson Hutchins, Joseph West Moore - 1885 - 368 páginas
...of those sages or heroes whom their country has thought proper to celebrate. The situation of these squares is such that they are "the most advantageously...would admit. The settlements round these squares must soon'become connected. This mode of taking possession of and improving the whole district at first... | |
| 1900 - 918 páginas
...to tread in the paths of those sages or heroes whom their country have thought proper to celebrate. The situation of those squares is such, that they...connected by spacious avenues round the grand federal improvement*, and as contiguous to them, and at the same time as equally distant from each other as... | |
| Hans Paul Caemmerer - 1939 - 392 páginas
...of those sages, or heroes whom their country has thought proper to celebrate. The situation of these Squares is such that they are the most advantageously...as circumstances would admit. The Settlements round those Squares must soon become connected. This mode of taking possession of and improving the whole... | |
| United States. National Capital Planning Commission - 1965 - 100 páginas
...form on the spaces, "first determined," the different Square or Areas, . . . The situation of these Squares is such that they are the most advantageously...distant from each other, as circumstances would admit .... This mode of taking possession of, and improving the whole district at first must leave to posterity,... | |
| United States. National Capital Planning Commission - 1970 - 136 páginas
...be embellished by them with statues, columns, obelisks or other ornaments. "The situation of these Squares is such, that they are the most advantageously...distant from each other, as circumstances would admit." L'Enfant's difficult temperament led to his dismissal late in 1791, and Andrew Ellicott was directed... | |
| Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation - 1975 - 114 páginas
...intersect at the squares. According to a notation by L'Enfant on the Plan: "The situation of these Squares is such that they are the most advantageously...connected by spacious Avenues round the grand Federal lmprovements, and as contiguous to them, and at the same time as equally distant from each other, as... | |
| Allan Greenberg - 1999 - 196 páginas
...further noted on the plan that the squares would be most "advantageously and rectprocally seen lrom each other. and as equally distributed over the whole city district and connected by spactous avenues." This network was tndependent ot the Mall and thereby reinforced the tmportance of... | |
| Michael Bednar - 2006 - 312 páginas
...of those sages or heroes, who this country has thought proper to celebrate. The situation of these squares is such, that they are the most advantageously...the same time as equally distant from each other, as circumstance would admit. The settlements 'round those squares must soon become connected. This mode... | |
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