 | Richard Miller Devens - 1879 - 680 Seiten
...up to Alexandria, is in full view of my window, and I can see the vessels as they pass and re-pass. 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 - 1879 - 698 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 about thirty servants to attend and keep the apart ments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables ; an establishment,"... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1879 - 698 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 about thirty servants to attend and keep the apart ments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables ; an establishment,"... | |
 | Laura Carter Holloway - 1881 - 800 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... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1882 - 452 Seiten
...Mrs. Adams to her married daughter, on the 21st of the month. It says: " Ths house is upon a grand aud superb scale, requiring about thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in order. The lighting of the apartments, from the kitchen to parlor and chamber, is a tax indeed (candles being... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1883 - 756 Seiten
...up to Alexandria, is in full view of my window, and I can see the vessels as they pass and re-pass. 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... | |
 | Angeline M. Cudworth - 1884 - 406 Seiten
...without a regiment of servants." Mrs. President Adams, writing to her daughter in Quincy, Mass., said : " 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. The lighting of the apartments... | |
 | Herman Dieck - 1884 - 778 Seiten
...thus described by herself in a letter to her daughter, written soon after her arrival. She says : il The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring...thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in propel order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables — an establishment very... | |
 | Joseph West Moore - 1884 - 318 Seiten
...hung on wash-days. In writing to her daughter, Mrs. Adams said of her new residence : "The house 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. The lighting of the apartments,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1885 - 462 Seiten
...any human being." Her account of the President's official residence is equally entertaining:—- " 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. The lighting the apartments,... | |
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The house 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... 
