Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Volumes 1-2Hubbard Brothers, 1885 - United States |
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... dress - President Harrison's First Reception - Inauguration Balls , . CHAPTER XIX . HARRISON'S ONE MONTH OF POWER . • Civil Service Reform - Differences of Opinion - Difficulty between Clay and King - Washington Correspondents ...
... dress - President Harrison's First Reception - Inauguration Balls , . CHAPTER XIX . HARRISON'S ONE MONTH OF POWER . • Civil Service Reform - Differences of Opinion - Difficulty between Clay and King - Washington Correspondents ...
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... dress he affected a Spartan simplicity , yet he used to have four horses harnessed to his carriage , and his entertainments at his residence on Georgetown Heights were very elegant . His private life was irreproachable , although , when ...
... dress he affected a Spartan simplicity , yet he used to have four horses harnessed to his carriage , and his entertainments at his residence on Georgetown Heights were very elegant . His private life was irreproachable , although , when ...
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... dress , with the adornment of pumps , silk stockings , and flowing cravat , unless he belonged to the army or the navy , in which case com- plete regimentals covered a multitude of sins . The แ ball , commencing upon the stroke of eight ...
... dress , with the adornment of pumps , silk stockings , and flowing cravat , unless he belonged to the army or the navy , in which case com- plete regimentals covered a multitude of sins . The แ ball , commencing upon the stroke of eight ...
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... dress was of white India crape , and five breadths , each a quarter of a yard wide , were all that was asked for to make a skirt , which only came down to the ankles , and was elaborately trimmed with a dozen or more rows of narrow ...
... dress was of white India crape , and five breadths , each a quarter of a yard wide , were all that was asked for to make a skirt , which only came down to the ankles , and was elaborately trimmed with a dozen or more rows of narrow ...
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... dress , gentlemen wore dress - coats with enormous collars and short waists , well - stuffed white cambric cravats , small - clothes , or tight - fitting pantaloons , silk stockings , and pumps . Duels were very common , and a case of ...
... dress , gentlemen wore dress - coats with enormous collars and short waists , well - stuffed white cambric cravats , small - clothes , or tight - fitting pantaloons , silk stockings , and pumps . Duels were very common , and a case of ...
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Page 128 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 51 - Nay : we hold, with Jefferson, to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 213 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow?
Page 266 - Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
Page 174 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Page 193 - first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Page 174 - A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock I never missed: Kings were by God appointed, And lost are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed.
Page 128 - What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe that what I am doing hurts the cause; and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Page 395 - Mater to renew the most cherished associations of his young manhood, and to exchange greetings with those whose deepening interest had followed every step of his upward progress from the day he entered upon his college course until he had attained the loftiest elevation in the gift of his countrymen.
Page 94 - To-day we have had the inauguration. A monstrous crowd of people is in the city. I never saw anything like it before. Persons have come five hundred miles to see General Jackson, and they really seem to think that the country is rescued from some frightful danger.