| B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 Seiten
...runs up to Alexandria is in full view of my window, and I see the vessels as they pass and repass. The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring...thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables; an establishment very well... | |
| Abigail Adams - 1840 - 308 Seiten
...grand and superb scale, requiring about thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house...President's salary. The lighting the apartments, from the kitchen to parlours and chambers, is a tax indeed ; and the fires we are obliged to keep to secure... | |
| Abigail Adams - 1840 - 304 Seiten
...runs up to Alexandria, is in full view of my window, and I see the vessels as they pass and repass. The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring...thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables ; an establishment very well... | |
| Abigail Adams - 1840 - 320 Seiten
...runs up to Alexandria, is in full view of my window, and I see the vessels as they pass and repass. The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring...thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables ; an establishment very well... | |
| Samuel Hazard - 1841 - 440 Seiten
...have guessed right," he replied ; " I did bring it when I came to this country, and ments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables — an establishment very well proper* tioned to the President's salary. The lighting the apartments, from the kitchen to parlors... | |
| William Quereau Force - 1850 - 292 Seiten
...runs up to Alexandria, is in full view of my window and I see the vessels as they pass and repass. The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring...thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables ; an establishment very well... | |
| Richard Hildreth - 1851 - 708 Seiten
...those attached to It; but as they are, and scattered as they are, I see no great comfort for them. " The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring...thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables : an establishment," she ironically... | |
| Richard Hildreth - 1851 - 792 Seiten
...attached to it ; but at they are, and scattered as they are, I see no great comfort for them. " The bouse is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring about...thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables : an establishment," she ironically... | |
| JOSEPH B. VARNUM - 1854 - 130 Seiten
...they are, and scattered as they are, I see no great comfort for them. * * "The house [President's] is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring about...thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables — -an establishment very... | |
| Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1856 - 592 Seiten
...description of the desolate appearance of everything she saw on the road, «he says: "The bouse is on a grand and superb scale, requiring about thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables — an establishment very... | |
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