Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Volume 25The Society, 1923 |
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Página 122 - House will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. Resolved, That the proceedings of this House, in relation to the death of the Hon. JOHN C. CALHOUN, be communicated to the family of the deceased by the Clerk.
Página 104 - Our ardent labours for the toys we seek, Join night to day, and Sunday to the week : Our very joys are anxious, and expire Between satiety and fierce desire.
Página 122 - Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council of the City of Washington, on June 24.
Página 203 - High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams, which fall, scarcely aslope, upon my head, and almost make the water bubble and smoke, in the trough under my nose. Truly, we public characters have a tough time of it!
Página 203 - town treasurer " is rightfully mine, as guardian of the best treasure that the town has. The overseers of the poor ought to make me their chairman, since I provide bountifully for the pauper, without expense to him that pays taxes. I am at the head of the fire department, and one of the physicians to the board of health. As a keeper of the peace, all water drinkers will confess me equal to the constable.
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