America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive: By J. S. Buckingham, 第 1 卷Fisher, Son & Company, 1841 |
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... Washington — Funeral of a member of congress , who had been shot in a duel - Visit to the house of representatives ... Washington - Formation of the district of Columbia -Seat of government established there by law - Choice of the ...
... Washington — Funeral of a member of congress , who had been shot in a duel - Visit to the house of representatives ... Washington - Formation of the district of Columbia -Seat of government established there by law - Choice of the ...
第 xii 頁
... Washington - Anecdote of the Con- gressional chaplains - Colleges , banks , hotels , and boarding - houses- Theatres Mr. Forrest , the American actor - Anecdote of southern sensi- tiveness on slavery - Play of Othello and of the ...
... Washington - Anecdote of the Con- gressional chaplains - Colleges , banks , hotels , and boarding - houses- Theatres Mr. Forrest , the American actor - Anecdote of southern sensi- tiveness on slavery - Play of Othello and of the ...
第 xiii 頁
... Washington - Climate of Washington extremely variable - Captain Smith's and Jefferson's account of the climate - Last survey of Washing- ton in an excursion round it — Visit to the arsenal , and description of it— Visit to the navy ...
... Washington - Climate of Washington extremely variable - Captain Smith's and Jefferson's account of the climate - Last survey of Washing- ton in an excursion round it — Visit to the arsenal , and description of it— Visit to the navy ...
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... Washington Square 205 11 Hall of Justice , from an Egyptian Temple 217 12 Wharf and Shipping , East River , near Maiden Lane 242 13 Steam Ferry Boat and Dock for landing 250 WASHINGTON . 14 West Front of the Capitol , towards the ...
... Washington Square 205 11 Hall of Justice , from an Egyptian Temple 217 12 Wharf and Shipping , East River , near Maiden Lane 242 13 Steam Ferry Boat and Dock for landing 250 WASHINGTON . 14 West Front of the Capitol , towards the ...
第 16 頁
... Washington Square , which was cheerfully granted to me by the president and chan- cellor , and the remaining lectures of my course were delivered there to very crowded audiences . After the close of these two courses in New York , I was ...
... Washington Square , which was cheerfully granted to me by the president and chan- cellor , and the remaining lectures of my course were delivered there to very crowded audiences . After the close of these two courses in New York , I was ...
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第 v 頁 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
第 498 頁 - ... without any warrant or authority from any power either divine or human, but in direct contradiction to the laws both of God and man : and therefore the law has justly fixed the crime and punishment of murder, on them, and on their seconds also z.
第 124 頁 - But this is not all; they agree in rites; they reckon by moons; they offer their first fruits; they have a kind of feast of tabernacles; they are said to lay their altar upon twelve stones; their mourning a year; customs of women, with many other things that do not now occur.
第 469 頁 - Resolved, That Congress has, by the Constitution, power to abolish Slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and that there is nothing in the terms or circumstances of the acts of cession by Virginia and Maryland, or otherwise, enforcing any legal or moral restraint on its existence.
第 104 頁 - ... in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
第 116 頁 - They asked only to let them tie it to a tree, lest the waters should carry it away — we consented. They then said some of their people were sick, and they asked permission to land them and put them under the shade of the trees. The ice then came, and they could not go away. They then begged a piece of land to build wigwams for the winter — we granted it to them.
第 502 頁 - And be it further enacted, that if any person shall give or send, or cause to be given or sent, to any person in the district of Columbia, any challenge to fight a duel, or to engage in single combat with any deadly or dangerous instrument or weapon whatever, or shall be the bearer of any such challenge, every person so giving or sending, or causing to be given or sent, or accepting such challenge...
第 119 頁 - And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him; those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.
第 119 頁 - But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further Country, where never mankind dwelt, That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
第 84 頁 - Who can. with patience, for a moment see The medley mass of pride and misery, Of whips and charters, manacles and rights, Of slaving blacks and democratic whites. And all the piebald polity that reigns In free confusion o'er Columbia's plains?