Visitors' Companion at Our Nation's Capital: A Complete Guide for Washington and Its Environs, with Over One Hundred Photo Illustrations Made Expressly for this Work : to which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, Washington's Farewell Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's Speech at Gettysburg, and Much Other Interesting Matter Connected with Our Nation's HistoryGeorge G. Evans |
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... five square miles , and lies on the northern bank of the Potomac , one hundred and sixteen miles above its mouth . The greater part of this area is a plateau rising some four hundred feet above the level of the Potomac , and traversed ...
... five square miles , and lies on the northern bank of the Potomac , one hundred and sixteen miles above its mouth . The greater part of this area is a plateau rising some four hundred feet above the level of the Potomac , and traversed ...
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... Avenue . It is nearly five miles long , but is broken in two places by the Capitol and the Treasury . Between the two , its length of a mile and one- half forms the chief highway of the city . Its THE CITY OF WASHINGTON . 19.
... Avenue . It is nearly five miles long , but is broken in two places by the Capitol and the Treasury . Between the two , its length of a mile and one- half forms the chief highway of the city . Its THE CITY OF WASHINGTON . 19.
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... five blocks are said to be the largest ever quarried in the United States . The lowest is twenty - six feet long , thir- teen feet wide , and two feet thick , and weighs one hundred and twenty tons . The cost of the statue was $ 20,000 ...
... five blocks are said to be the largest ever quarried in the United States . The lowest is twenty - six feet long , thir- teen feet wide , and two feet thick , and weighs one hundred and twenty tons . The cost of the statue was $ 20,000 ...
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... five dollars was made by Charlotte Scott , a freed woman of Virginia , being her first earnings in freedom , and consecrated by her suggestion and request , on the day she heard of President Lincoln's death , to build a monument to his ...
... five dollars was made by Charlotte Scott , a freed woman of Virginia , being her first earnings in freedom , and consecrated by her suggestion and request , on the day she heard of President Lincoln's death , to build a monument to his ...
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... five feet square at the base , where the walls are fifteen feet thick , and gradually tapering , until , at the elevation of five hundred feet , it is about thirty - five feet square and the walls have a thickness of eighteen inches ...
... five feet square at the base , where the walls are fifteen feet thick , and gradually tapering , until , at the elevation of five hundred feet , it is about thirty - five feet square and the walls have a thickness of eighteen inches ...
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Page 17 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Page 44 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 116 - I bequeath the whole of my property to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 175 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Page 12 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 32 - So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and "wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Page 30 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Page 14 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Page 16 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 15 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President...