Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Volume 10The Society, 1907 - Washington (D.C.) |
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Page 6 - let blockheads read what blockheads write." But I find these novels corrupt the morals of our females, and engender hardness of heart to real distress. Those most pleased with fictitious distress, have hearts as hard as iron. If they are pleased with one who relieves fictitious distress, the reality ought to please...
Page 6 - Yes, if they repent; I would not only take them into my house but unto my bosom. I would wipe the tears from their eyes — I would soothe their sorrows, and support them in the trying hour. I would divide my last morsel with them. For those who would not repent — if they were hungry, I would feed them; if they were naked I would clothe them; and much more, if they were sick I would minister unto them; I would admonish them and I would then have done. What did our Saviour? I would not revile them....
Page 28 - Member — a few of them are behindhand in their subscriptions, but the fault is not theirs; it was owing to Sally's sickness. Others again, have paid us from two to six dollars. Our printer is a poor man. We have only thirty-one cents in the world, and for the first time since we have resided in this city — thirty-one years...
Page 19 - I shall make a proposition to my friends in Congress to have the whole scene painted and put in the rotunda of the Capitol with our national paintings, reserving a conspicuous place for myself.
Page 20 - The sound Presbyterians gave thanks, and I requested the Marshall, the next time I was tried, to summon twelve tom-cats instead of Bladensburg men. ' ' Although Mrs. Royall showed herself game to the end of the farce, she was really much shaken by the trial. The ordeal was a great strain for a woman of her years. She was never quite strong again. The ignominy seared deep. Her enemies had won. Henceforth, Anne Royall would go branded. Even a modern book dealing with past Congresses, says of her: '...
Page 48 - Glaciers et les hautes regions des Alpes," by Professor E. Desor, that he there described similar features which he observed in connection with the Aar Glacier in 1844, but I have not been able to obtain a copy of the work for examination. f In an article in the Geological Magazine, Decade II, vol. iii, 1876, published during the same season that I was making these observations, and which I had not then seen, being away from home, Rev. TG Bonney clearly states the same conclusion, presenting as evidences...
Page 64 - It is with singular satisfaction that I announce to you the completion of the survey of the four lines comprehending the Territory of Columbia. These lines are opened and cleared forty feet wide; that is, twenty feet on each side of the lines limiting the Territory; and in order to perpetuate the work, I have set up square milestones, marked progressively with the number of miles from the beginning on Jones's Point to the west corner; thence from the west corner; thence from the north corner to the...
Page 63 - Adler, that so little has been accomplished in the way of educating the public to sound and full appreciation of the evil consequences of child labor, and it is especially humiliating to know that the District of Columbia, the seat of the national government, is the only community with the exception of Georgia, Idaho, Nevada and the Indian Territory, which is at present without legislation of some kind on the subject of child labor.
Page 235 - Warder Building. 2549 Eleventh St. 1207 E. Capitol St. 1738 Fifteenth St. The Union Savings Bank. 1407 G St. Cor. Fourteenth and G Sts. 1224 Connecticut Ave. 616 East Capitol St. Supt. Nat Botanic Garden. 1205 K St. 1707 Massachusetts Ave. 1003 F St. 1621 Massachusetts Ave. 928 F St. 1530 Ninth St. 618 Twelfth St. Hdqrs. Met. Police. 3249 N St.