Greenleaf and Law in the Federal CityPress of W.F. Roberts, 1901 - 355 pàgines |
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Adams aggregate fund American appears April assignees bank Blane brick building Capitol Captain Duncanson chancery citizens city of Washington Commissioners Company Congress contract conveyance conveyed Court Custis Daniel Carroll daughter DEAR SIR December deed Dr Sir Eastern Branch Edmund Law Eliza engagements England Esqr February Federal City fortune gentleman George George Hadfield Georgetown honor hundred India Intelligencer interest James Greenleaf James Hoban January Jersey avenue John Law John Nicholson Judge Cranch July June justice land Law's letter lived loan lots mansion March March 15 mind Morris and Nicholson mortgage never Nicholson and Greenleaf payment Pennsylvania Philadelphia Potomac Pratt President purchase received respect Robert Morris says September September 17 sister sold speculation square Stoddert street Thomas Law Thomas Tingey thousand dollars tion trust United Washington Gazette Watterston's manuscript William Cranch William Prout wish writes
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Pàgina 169 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Pàgina 126 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Pàgina 286 - But easy quiet, a secure retreat, A harmless life that knows not how to cheat, With home-bred plenty, the rich owner bless, And rural pleasures crown his happiness.
Pàgina 244 - At the distance of three-fourths of a mile, on or near the Eastern Branch, lie scattered the habitations of Mr. Law and of Mr. Carroll, the principal proprietaries of the ground, half a dozen houses, a very large but perfectly empty warehouse, and a wharf graced by not a single vessel.
Pàgina 236 - This day, according to our information, gives a husband to your elder sister, and consummates, it is to be presumed, her fondest desires. The dawn with us is bright, and propitious, I hope, of her future happiness, for a full measure of which she and Mr. Law have my earnest wishes.
Pàgina 179 - Though five times as much money has been expended as was necessary, and though the private buildings are in number sufficient for all who will have occasion to reside here, yet there is nothing convenient and nothing plenty but provisions ; there is no industry, society, or business.
Pàgina 179 - There appears to be a confident expectation that this place will soon exceed any city in the world. Mr. Thornton, one of the commissioners, spoke of a population of 160,000 as a matter of course in a few years. No stranger can be here a day, and converse with the proprietors, without conceiving himself in the company of crazy people.
Pàgina 35 - I sleep on other persons' beds, I occupy other people's rooms ; and if I attempt to sit down to write, it is at the interruption and inconvenience of some one who has acquired a prior right to the place.
Pàgina 234 - Do not then, in your contemplation of the marriage state, look for perfect felicity before you consent to wed — nor conceive from the fine tales the poets and lovers of old have told us of the transports of mutual love, that heaven has taken its abode on earth. Nor do not deceive yourself in supposing that the only...
Pàgina 132 - His dress was of plain cloth, and he rode on horseback to the Capitol without a single guard or even servant in his train, dismounted without assistance, and hitched the bridle of his horse to the palisades.