The First American: His Homes and His HouseholdsHarper & brothers, 1900 - 139 páginas |
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Alexander Macomb American Augustine Augustine Washington beauty Billy Bishop Cloth Colonel Humphreys Colonel Washington's Congress Conway Crown 8vo daughter death diary dinner drawing-room Edges and Gilt English father France Franklin house French friends furniture General's GEORGE DU MAURIER George Washington George Washington Parke Germantown Gilt Top guests Hamilton handsome happy HARPER & BROTHERS horse household ington Lady Washington Lafayette Lawrence Lear Leila Herbert letters Lodge Macomb house mansion Marie Bashkirtseff Martha Washington Morris house Moscheles Mount Vernon nation negro ness never Ornamental person Philadelphia Portraits postage prepaid Potomac President President's PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Revolution Robert Morris says secretary sent by mail servants steward thought Three-quarter Calf tion tomb Truro Parish United vault Virginia WAKEFIELD HOUSE walk Washing Washington Parke Washington Parke Custis Washington was born wife WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE woman writes wrote YORK AND LONDON young
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Página 131 - A History of Our Own Times, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880. Four Vols. demy Svo, cloth extra, 12s. each. — Also a POPULAR EDITION, in Four Vols. crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. each. A Short History of Our Own Times.
Página 109 - ... branches of polite literature, in arts and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and, as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment, by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have just been mentioned, and which, when carried to excess, are never-failing sources of disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant...
Página viii - O eloquent, just and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet!
Página 109 - ... for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.
Página xxv - Will, thus describes the home of the mother. " I was often there with George, his playmate, schoolmate, and young man's companion. Of the mother I was ten times more afraid than I ever was of my own parents ; she awed me in the midst of her kindness, for she was indeed truly kind.
Página 110 - And to my mulatto man, William, calling himself William Lee, I give immediate freedom; or, if he should prefer it (on account of the accidents which have befallen him, and which have rendered him incapable of walking or of any active employment), to remain in the situation he now is, it shall be optional in him to do so; in either case, however, I allow him an annuity of thirty dollars, during his natural life, which shall be independent of the victuals and...
Página 109 - States to which the youth of fortune and talents from all parts thereof might be sent for the completion of their education in all the branches of polite literature in arts and sciences — in acquiring knowledge in the principles of Politics and good Government...
Página 108 - Item.— To my dearly beloved wife, Martha Washington, I give and bequeath the use, profit, and benefit of my whole estate, real and personal, for the term of her natural life, except such parts thereof as are specially disposed of hereafter.
Página 132 - We venture to think that no such remarkable and unbroken series of intimate letters between two remarkable people has ever been given to the world. . . . There is something extraordinarily touching in the gradual unfolding of the romance in which two poets play the parts of hero and heroine.
Página 57 - That the principles of America opened the Bastille is not to be doubted, and therefore the key comes to the right place.
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