Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Volume 24The Society, 1922 - Washington (D.C.) |
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... artist , and associated with him . Nathan Loughborough was for several years acting Comptroller of the Treasury . While in office he found it necessary to temporarily change the spelling of the first part of his surname from " Lough ...
... artist , and associated with him . Nathan Loughborough was for several years acting Comptroller of the Treasury . While in office he found it necessary to temporarily change the spelling of the first part of his surname from " Lough ...
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... artistic memorial to their hero and the protracted efforts of the American architects to remove the Lincoln column from the entrance of the remodeled Court House . In the chronological order , the first statue erected in Lafayette ...
... artistic memorial to their hero and the protracted efforts of the American architects to remove the Lincoln column from the entrance of the remodeled Court House . In the chronological order , the first statue erected in Lafayette ...
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... artistic merits of this group of statuary , or even to attempt a résumé of the reasons which led the American Congress to take up the belated theme of honoring these heroes in the Capital of the nation which they had helped to establish ...
... artistic merits of this group of statuary , or even to attempt a résumé of the reasons which led the American Congress to take up the belated theme of honoring these heroes in the Capital of the nation which they had helped to establish ...
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... artist , and he painted the portrait of his father that hangs in the General Term court room of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia . It is likely that some of these people became members . later than 1859 , and that there ...
... artist , and he painted the portrait of his father that hangs in the General Term court room of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia . It is likely that some of these people became members . later than 1859 , and that there ...
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... artist of no mean quality . To be sure he was not one of the most genial natures . His zeal for art far exceeded the bounds of law , and his temperament was so ill regulated that he was not only perpetually in trouble himself , but got ...
... artist of no mean quality . To be sure he was not one of the most genial natures . His zeal for art far exceeded the bounds of law , and his temperament was so ill regulated that he was not only perpetually in trouble himself , but got ...
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Page 109 - Every white* male citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years...
Page 197 - How loved, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the praised ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 111 - Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory...
Page 117 - Resolved, by the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of the City of Washington...
Page 117 - RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN AND BOARD OF COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF GEORGETOWN...
Page 207 - Keep the ghost of that wife, foully slain, in your view — And what could you, what should you, what would you do ? Why, just what he did ! They were left in the lurch For the want of more wadding. He ran to the church, Broke the door, stripped the pews, and dashed out in the road With his arms full of hymn-books, and threw down his load At their feet ! Then above all the shouting and shots Rang his voice — "Put Watts into 'em — Boys, give 'em Watts !
Page 154 - The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honorable, but awful. Trusted with the destinies of this solitary republic of the world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and selfgovernment...
Page 111 - ... have been born or naturalized in the United States, and who shall have resided in the said District for the period of one year, and three months in the ward or election precinct in which he shall offer to vote next preceding any election therein, shall be entitled to the elective franchise, and shall be deemed an elector and entitled to vote at any election in said District, without any distinction on account of color or race.
Page 107 - ... state above the value of thirty pounds current money, and having resided in the county, in which they offer to vote, one whole year next preceding the election, shall have a right of suffrage, in the election of Delegates for such county...
Page 200 - Orleans, where he stayed a year and then went to Charleston, SC Here he learned the stucco business, which he followed until 1835, when he discovered a new method of taking a cast from the living face, which enabled him to make busts so cheaply that he soon had as much work as he could do. He then resolved...