Visitors' Companion at Our Nation's Capital: A Complete Guide for Washington and Its Environs, with Over One Hundred Photo Illustrations Made Expressly for this Work : to which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, Washington's Farewell Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's Speech at Gettysburg, and Much Other Interesting Matter Connected with Our Nation's HistoryGeorge G. Evans G. G. Evans, 1892 - 286 páginas |
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... Virginia , being her first earnings in freedom , and consecrated by her suggestion and request , on the day she heard of President Lincoln's death , to build a monument to his memory . " On the tablet at the back is an extract from the ...
... Virginia , being her first earnings in freedom , and consecrated by her suggestion and request , on the day she heard of President Lincoln's death , to build a monument to his memory . " On the tablet at the back is an extract from the ...
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... Virginia sandstone , painted white . The connecting corridors , forty - four feet long and fifty - six feet wide , and the wings , one hundred and forty- two feet eight inches long and two hundred and thirty - eight feet ten inches wide ...
... Virginia sandstone , painted white . The connecting corridors , forty - four feet long and fifty - six feet wide , and the wings , one hundred and forty- two feet eight inches long and two hundred and thirty - eight feet ten inches wide ...
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... Virginia , and several Indian chiefs are also represented . The Randolphs and several other prominent Virginia families trace their descent from Pocahontas . The painting is the work of John G. Chapman , and cost $ 10,000 . 66 The ...
... Virginia , and several Indian chiefs are also represented . The Randolphs and several other prominent Virginia families trace their descent from Pocahontas . The painting is the work of John G. Chapman , and cost $ 10,000 . 66 The ...
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... Virginia , was appointed Chief Justice , and continued to execute the duties of his high office until 1835. It has been said : " It was he who established the power of the Supreme Court as we recognize it at the present day . It was he ...
... Virginia , was appointed Chief Justice , and continued to execute the duties of his high office until 1835. It has been said : " It was he who established the power of the Supreme Court as we recognize it at the present day . It was he ...
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... Virginia , lie spread out before the spectator in a picture of surpassing beauty . The great public buildings loom up in all their grandeur , and the streets and parks , with their masses of luxuriant foliage , remind one of some rare ...
... Virginia , lie spread out before the spectator in a picture of surpassing beauty . The great public buildings loom up in all their grandeur , and the streets and parks , with their masses of luxuriant foliage , remind one of some rare ...
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Página 17 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Página 44 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 116 - I bequeath the whole of my property to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Página 175 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Página 12 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Página 32 - So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and "wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Página 30 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Página 14 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Página 16 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Página 15 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President...