A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 - Canada |
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... houses which lie at the foot of it . Washington , notwithstanding , is an agreeable city , full of pleasant clever people , who come there to amuse and be amused ; and you observe in the company ( although you occasionally meet some ...
... houses which lie at the foot of it . Washington , notwithstanding , is an agreeable city , full of pleasant clever people , who come there to amuse and be amused ; and you observe in the company ( although you occasionally meet some ...
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... House of Representatives is a fine room , and taking the average of the ora- tions delivered there , it possesses this one great merit - you cannot hear in it . Were I to make a comparison between the members of our House of Commons and ...
... House of Representatives is a fine room , and taking the average of the ora- tions delivered there , it possesses this one great merit - you cannot hear in it . Were I to make a comparison between the members of our House of Commons and ...
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... house , every man having his own well - stuffed arm - chair , and before him his desk , with his papers and notes ! Then they are supplied with everything , even to pen- knives with their names engraved on them — each knife having two ...
... house , every man having his own well - stuffed arm - chair , and before him his desk , with his papers and notes ! Then they are supplied with everything , even to pen- knives with their names engraved on them — each knife having two ...
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... House of Com- mons at passing the Navy Estimates . Eventually he lost it . The claims of the Fulton family were also brought forward , when I was present , in the House of Representatives . Fulton was And rica , and to his exertions and ...
... House of Com- mons at passing the Navy Estimates . Eventually he lost it . The claims of the Fulton family were also brought forward , when I was present , in the House of Representatives . Fulton was And rica , and to his exertions and ...
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... House of Representatives , and there lay in state , as it were . The members of Senate and the Supreme Court were ... Houses and the Order of Arrangements for the Funeral of THE HON . Supreme Court : - DIARY IN AMERICA . 13.
... House of Representatives , and there lay in state , as it were . The members of Senate and the Supreme Court were ... Houses and the Order of Arrangements for the Funeral of THE HON . Supreme Court : - DIARY IN AMERICA . 13.
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