Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Հատոր 18The Society, 1915 |
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Էջ 183 - Strike, till the last armed foe expires, Strike, for your altars and your fires, Strike, for the green graves of your sires, God, and your native land.
Էջ 31 - Resolved by the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of the City of Washington...
Էջ 17 - Point being the upper cape of Hunting Creek, in Virginia, and at an angle in the outset of forty-five degrees west of the north, and running in a direct line ten miles, for the first line; then beginning again at the same...
Էջ 18 - Commonalty, together with the members of the different Lodges [?] of the town, at three o'clock, waited on the commissioners at Mr. Wise's, where they dined, and, after drinking a glass of wine to the following sentiment, viz. : "May the stone which we are about to place in the ground, remain an immovable monument of the wisdom and unanimity of North America," the company proceeded to Jones Point in the following order: 1st.
Էջ 186 - Finding that Mr. Robert Fulton,* whose genius and talents I highly respect, has been considered by some the inventor of the steamboat, I think it a duty to the memory of the late JOHN FITCH to set forth, with as much brevity as possible, the fallacy of this opinion ; and to show, moreover, that if Mr. Fulton has any claim whatever to originality in his steamboat, it must be exceedingly limited.
Էջ 270 - Mrs. William Gumming Story, president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, has appointed Miss Laura V. Walker, regent of the Columbia Chapter, as State chairman for the District of Columbia on the work of marking the "old trail
Էջ 35 - AN ACT to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted . . ., That, from and after the passage of this act, each and every male person, excepting paupers and persons under guardianship, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who has not been convicted of any infamous crime or...
Էջ 175 - Never was such injustice done to you except by sign painters and General Kosciusko, than which last nothing can be so bad...
Էջ 197 - He was a scholar and a gentleman — full of talent and eccentricity — a quaker by profession, a painter, a poet, and a horse-racer — well acquainted with the mechanic arts — at the head of the patent office, and was one of the original projectors (with John Fitch) of steamboats, and the author of an excellent treatise on language, called
Էջ 109 - Cabinet councils open upon me a new scene and new views of the political world. Here is a play of passions, opinions, and characters different in many respects from those in which I have been accustomed heretofore to move. There is slowness, want of decision, and a spirit of procrastination in the President, which perhaps arises more from his situation than his personal character.