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... contains numerous offices and a large hall ( 1st floor ) , 220 ft . long , 144 ft . wide , and 60 ft . high ( adm ... containing the U.S. Army Building , leads hence to the S.E. to the South , Hamilton , and 39th St. ferries to Brooklyn ...
... contains numerous offices and a large hall ( 1st floor ) , 220 ft . long , 144 ft . wide , and 60 ft . high ( adm ... containing the U.S. Army Building , leads hence to the S.E. to the South , Hamilton , and 39th St. ferries to Brooklyn ...
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... contains the * Stock Exchange ( Pl . 2 ; A , 3 ) , a high marble building to the right , with other entrances in Wall St. and New St. Strangers , who are admitted to a gallery overlooking the hall ( entr . , 13 Wall St. ) , should not ...
... contains the * Stock Exchange ( Pl . 2 ; A , 3 ) , a high marble building to the right , with other entrances in Wall St. and New St. Strangers , who are admitted to a gallery overlooking the hall ( entr . , 13 Wall St. ) , should not ...
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... contains some interesting monuments ( Emmet , the Irish patriot , monument to the S.E. of the church ; G. F. Cooke , the actor ) , and in the portico at the E. end of the church ( next Broadway ) there is a memorial of General ...
... contains some interesting monuments ( Emmet , the Irish patriot , monument to the S.E. of the church ; G. F. Cooke , the actor ) , and in the portico at the E. end of the church ( next Broadway ) there is a memorial of General ...
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... contains the State Courts and several municipal offices , is well fitted up . The building , owing to the scandalous ' Ring frauds ' , cost 12 millions dollars ( 2,400,000l . ) . Opposite the Court House , in Chambers St. , are various ...
... contains the State Courts and several municipal offices , is well fitted up . The building , owing to the scandalous ' Ring frauds ' , cost 12 millions dollars ( 2,400,000l . ) . Opposite the Court House , in Chambers St. , are various ...
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... contain 14,360 M. of wire , and their weight is about 3600 tons . The hanging cables attached to the large ones number ... contains numerous railway and scalpers ' offices ( see p . xxi ) and wholesale warehouses of dry goods ' ( i.e. ...
... contain 14,360 M. of wire , and their weight is about 3600 tons . The hanging cables attached to the large ones number ... contains numerous railway and scalpers ' offices ( see p . xxi ) and wholesale warehouses of dry goods ' ( i.e. ...
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Page 233 - But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on.
Page 433 - Yosemite throughout its whole length ; but, besides these, there are many other striking peculiarities, and features both of sublimity and beauty, which can hardly be surpassed, if equalled, by those of any mountain valleys in the world.
Page xliii - Electoral Commission of five Senators, five Representatives, and five Judges of the Supreme Court was created to decide on the doubtful returns.
Page liv - Court are appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate, and hold office for life (or "during good behavior"). The Government thus has what is known as a system of "checks and balances.
Page 64 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 233 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that...
Page 195 - The waters which fall from this horrible precipice, do foam and boil after the most hideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that of thunder ; for when the wind blows out of the south, their dismal roaring may be heard more than fifteen leagues off.
Page xxxix - ... $15,400,000 ing their issues and holding them to a proper specie reserve ; and this by no other interference except its countenance or ill favor, as such banks severally observed or disregarded the ordinary rules of financial prudence. The immediate effect of the refusal of Congress to recharter the Bank of the United States was to bring the Treasury to the verge of bankruptcy. The interference of Parish, Girard, and Astor alone saved the credit of the government, and this interference was no...
Page 433 - The principal features of the Yosemite, and those by which it is distinguished from all other known valleys, are : First, the near approach to verticality of its walls ; second, their great height, not only absolutely, but as compared with the width of the valley itself; and, finally, the very small amount of talus or debris at the base of these 'gigantic cliffs.
Page 197 - The descent finally resolves itself into a rhythm, the water reaching the bottom of the Fall in periodic gushes. Nor is the spray uniformly diffused through the air, but is wafted through it in successive veils of gauzelike texture. From all this it is evident that beauty is not absent from the Horseshoe Fall, but majesty is its chief attribute. The plunge of the water is not wild, but deliberate, vast, and fascinating.