Washington, Old and NewPress of Washington Print. Company, 1913 - 138 pagina's |
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Pagina 15 - I proposed to him, however, to dine with me the next day, and I would invite another friend or two, bring them into conference together, and I thought it impossible that reasonable men, consulting together coolly, could fail, by some mutual sacrifices of opinion, to form a compromise which was to save the Union.
Pagina 74 - Now, like a maiden queen, she will behold, From her high turrets, hourly suitors come : The east with incense, and the west with gold, Will stand, like suppliants, to receive her doom.
Pagina 15 - But it was observed that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted, to sweeten it a little to them.
Pagina 48 - It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions...
Pagina 16 - There had before been propositions to fix the seat of government either at Philadelphia, or at Georgetown on the Potomac ; and it was thought that by giving it to Philadelphia for ten years, and to Georgetown permanently afterwards, this might, as an anodyne, calm in some degree the ferment which might be excited by the other measure alone. So two of the Potomac members (White and Lee, but White with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive,) agreed to change their votes, and Hamilton undertook to...
Pagina 27 - In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this " second Rome ! " * Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was...
Pagina 14 - As I was going to the President's one day, I met him in the street. He walked me backwards and forwards before the President's door for half an hour. He painted pathetically the temper into which the legislature had been wrought ; the disgust of those who were called the creditor States; the danger of the secession of their members, and the separation of the States.
Pagina 21 - You are desired to proceed to Georgetown, where you will find Mr. Ellicott employed in making a survey and map of the Federal territory. The especial object of asking your aid is to have drawings of the particular grounds most likely to be approved for the site of the Federal town and buildings.
Pagina 15 - But it was finally agreed that whatever importance had been attached to the rejection of this proposition, the preservation of the Union and of concord among the States was more important, and that therefore it would be better that the vote of rejection should be rescinded, to effect which some members should change their votes.
Pagina 135 - I have reason to be," he replied; "and if you knew how important this is to me, you would not wonder. I have spent seven years in perfecting this invention, and all that I had; if it succeeds, I am a made man; if it fails, I am ruined. I have a large family, and not money enough to pay my board bill when I leave the city.