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...THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meet... ...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ...ccordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, 1863. 7 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: ... ... proper ones. Iowa, having an entire Union delegation, will be one of the States the attempt will be made, if upon any. The Gover- nor doubtless has... ...uant to the comity deemed to be due to friendly powers, any tobacco in the United States belonging to the government either of France, Austria, or any... ...nformation concerning them and in relation to the Washington Aqueduct, the Capitol, and other matters of local interest to the report of the Secretary... ...ate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the fourth day of March next, at twe...

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...e aware, however, of the claims to economic and other consideration of the United States, and that this quarter of the globe offered a vast field for ... ..., however, of the claims to economic and other consideration of the United States, and that this quarter of the globe offered a vast field for study. ... ...e shimmer. Moreover he was by no means sure that he should be happy in the United States, where doubtless he should find himself soon enough disembark... ...er. Moreover he was by no means sure that he should be happy in the United States, where doubtless he should find himself soon enough disembarked. He ... ...ce. The ship was heavily laden with German emigrants, whose mission in the United States differed considerably from Count Otto’s. They hung over the b... ... ship was heavily laden with German emigrants, whose mission in the United States differed considerably from Count Otto’s. They hung over the bulwarks... ...n to take me to some other place. I believe it’s a literary party near the Capitol. Ev- erything seems so separate in Washington. Mrs. Steuben’s going... ... his race, that the ladies had gone out to pay some visits and look at the Capitol. Pandora apparently had not hitherto examined this monument, and ou... ...b- ably only a question of leaving cards—and bring her young friend to the Capitol at the hour when the yellow after- noon light would give a tone to ...

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...ght expensive ties “and could pay cash for ‘em, too, by golly;” and at the United Cigar Store, with its crimson and gold alertness, he reflected, “Won... ...ollars—bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at ... ...bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at the top... ...his evening and, after an adequate sketch of the day’s progressive weather-states, his four-hundred- and-fifty-dollar fee, his lunch with Paul Rieslin... ... is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a de- mocracy. At that moment the steel and cement town wh... ...t, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a de- mocracy. At that moment the steel and cement town which com... ...it-room were plans of the new suburbs of Sparta, pictures of the new state capitol, at Galop de Vache, and large ears of corn with the label, “Nature’... ...d by the Dodsworths, best-known pio- neer family of Zenith. He built state capitols, skyscrapers, railway terminals. He was a heavy-shouldered, big-ch... ... only by Tanis and Carrie but presently by new ancient friends, Jennie and Capitolina and Toots. If for a moment he had seen Tanis as withering and se...

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...rom the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them united with strength of body an equal vigor mind; and of the two most famou... ...st and sacrifice, which he called Panathenaea, or the sacrifice of all the united Athenians. He instituted also another sacrifice, called Metoecia, or... ...e Pitthean maid, To your town the terms and fates, My father gives of many states. Be not anxious nor afraid; The bladder will not fail so swim On the... ...actions of his former life. Theseus was now fifty years old, as Hellanicus states, when he carried off Helen, who was yet too young to be married. Som... ...But Romulus seemed rather to act by counsel, and to show the sagacity of a statesman, and in all his dealings with their neighbors, whether relating t... ...m Antigonus is one. And Simylus, the poet, who thinks Tarpeia betrayed the Capitol, not to the Sabines, but the Gauls, having fallen in love with thei... ...She, for the love of the besieging Gaul, Betrayed the city’s strength, the Capitol. And a little after, speaking of her death:— The numerous nations o... ... bones were removed, and so it lost her name, except only that part of the Capitol which they still call the Tarpeian Rock, from which they used to ca... ...our brothers, and countrymen, that time, having now by the strictest bonds united us to those we once mortally hated, has made it impossible for us no...

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... to. For not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind. How often have we seen some such adventur... ...r of Heuschrecke’s. Form rose out of void solution and discontinuity; like united itself with like in definite arrangement: and soon either in actual ... ...attered papers, and miscellaneous shreds of all conceivable sub- stances, “united in a common element of dust.” Books lay on tables, and below tables;... ...of Science, and cackle, like true Old-Roman geese and goslings round their Capitol, on any alarm, or on none; nay who often, as illuminated Sceptics, ... ...mstances, might be, followed Teufelsdrockh, through the various successive states and stages of Growth, Entanglement, Unbelief, and almost Reprobation...

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...remember at Washington, something faintly Corinthian, something called the Capitol,” Sir Richmond reflected. “And other buildings. A T reasury.” “That... ...yflower that we ought to be told about. I allow it’s a recent revival. The United States has been like one of those men you read about in the papers w... ... that we ought to be told about. I allow it’s a recent revival. The United States has been like one of those men you read about in the papers who go a... ...a day where dawn was already at hand. And in such long perspec- tives, the states, governments and institutions of to-day be- came very temporary-look... ...e world!” 141 H G Wells “Confusions merely. The world is just a muddle of states and religions and theories and stupidities. There are great lumps of...

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... an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capitol. The river road led past rocky field slopes, deep glens, woods flam... ... Gopher Prairie calls anybody `well-informed’ who’s been through the State Capitol and heard about Gladstone.” “Now I’m telling you! Lym reads a lot—s... ...es the permanent Mother Chautauqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest to... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-... ...l derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-known r... ... known to be honest and courteous. London is a large city. A distinguished statesman once 246 Main Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” w... ...d to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers. Beavers, human Beavers, were everywh... ...wers and poetry and music and everything; he spieled like he was a regular United States Senator; and Myrtle—she’s a devil, that girl, ha! ha!—she kid...

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...cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hills, and listening to the leaves rustling so lonely in the trees, and thinking of the home away yonder ... ... beings. It ain’t any use to tell me a bluejay hasn’t got a sense of humor, because I know better. And memory, too. They brought jays here from all ov... .... It ain’t any use to tell me a bluejay hasn’t got a sense of humor, because I know better. And memory, too. They brought jays here from all over the ... ...ice to the top of it—Harris believed it was really twice that. We judged that if St. Paul’s, St. Peter’s, the Great Pyramid, the Strasburg Cathedral a... ...se things. Where it de- cides that a guide is necessary, you are forbidden to go with- out one. Neither are you allowed to be a victim of extortion: t... ...appear in these tables, but they are scattered so widely over the country that they furnish a 277 A Tramp Abroad good general average of city health ...

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...igitte and Jerome, the former being twenty-seven, the latter twenty-three, united their ex- istence. Brother and sister were bound together by an ex- ... ... at last, a serene and peaceful autumn. The two women were still fur- ther united by the one sentiment that lay within them, namely, their adoration f... ...to fill a few of them. Now Brigitte had one pecu- liar characteristic. She united the economy to which she owed her fortune with a full understanding ... ...tely demanded in the interests of commerce, which is certainly the life of States. In any case, this view, which isn’t yours, appears to have been tha... ... his game properly. CHAPTER V SHOWING HOW NEAR THE TARPEIAN ROCK IS TO THE CAPITOL ON LEAVING Madame de Godollo, la Peyrade felt the neces- sity of ga... ...o displayed more science and calculation in merely get- ting a living than statesmen had shown in governing Spain for a hundred years, he, la Peyrade,... ... can rise to the height of your natural genius, whatever its spark may be. Statesmen, kings even, will admit you to their most secret thoughts; you wi...

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...ndividuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand...

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...pened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the stair- ca... ...tone steps, descending alongside the antique and massive foundation of the Capitol, towards the battered triumphal arch of Septimius Severus, right be... ...same party of friends, whom we have seen at the sculp- ture-gallery of the Capitol, chanced to have gone together, some months before, to the catacomb... ... so resonant; and Hilda with her slender scream, piercing farther than the united uproar of the rest—began to shriek, halloo, and bel- low, with the u... ...age of us in this respect. The slender thread of silk or cotton keeps them united with the small, familiar, gentle interests of life, the continually ... ... of the avenues, and crowned them with busts of that multitude of worthies—statesmen, heroes, artists, men of letters and of song—whom the whole world... ...me a commission to carve the one-and-thirty (is that the num- ber?) sister States, each pouring a silver stream from a sepa- rate can into one vast ba... ...ire,” remarked an English artist, “you could set those same one-and-thirty States to cleansing the national flag of any stains that it may have incurr... ... shuddering. “We know it well.” “None,” repeated Miriam, also shuddering. “United—mis- erably entangled with me, rather—by a bond of guilt, our union ...

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... fully as to remind me vaguely—I hardly know why—of the great slope of the Capitol, beside the Ara Coeli, at Rome. The view of that part of the castle... ...s which are only houses. The trouble with the domestic architecture of the United States is that it is not scenic, thank Heaven! and the good fortune ... ... are only houses. The trouble with the domestic architecture of the United States is that it is not scenic, thank Heaven! and the good fortune of an o... ...al good faith which is not the commonest feature of French art, and which, united as it is in this case with exceeding knowledge and a remarkable sens... ...st be confessed, is less pictorial than the word, in spite of the Place du Capitole, in spite of the quay of the Garonne, in spite of the curious cloi... ...the well- advised traveller will repair stands in a corner of the Place du Capitole, which is the heart and centre of Toulouse, and which bears a vagu... ...tion” with the establishment across the way, al- though the two places are united (if old Carcassonne may be said to be united to anything) by a vague...

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...y ignorance incredible. “Now, how would it be in one of your South-Western States?”—that’s his favourite way of opening conversation. Fancy me giving ... ...y of opening conversation. Fancy me giving an account of the South-Western States! I tell him he had better ask mamma—a little to tease that lady, who... ...it was not for this country that I had educated her. If she marries in the United States it is, of course, my intention that my son-in-law shall accom... ...not for this country that I had educated her. If she marries in the United States it is, of course, my intention that my son-in-law shall accompany us... ...e young lady was very fond of paying visits. Another person, the wife of a United States senator, informed me 31 Henry James that if I should go to W... ... to look at his machines, while I walked about the streets and visited the Capitol! The human machine is what in- 40 The Point of View terests me mos... ...ined with little red houses where nothing ever passes but the tramway. The Capitol—a vast structure, false classic, white marble, iron and stucco, whi... ...r’s skin; their liberty over here is the liberty of bears. You go into the Capitol as you would into a railway station; you walk about as you would in...

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...up his mind to pull out for Washington, and just go to the President of the United States and make a clean breast of the whole thing, not keeping ba... ...mind to pull out for Washington, and just go to the President of the United States and make a clean breast of the whole thing, not keeping back an a... ...ident’s house with his letter, and they told him the President was up to the Capitol, and just going to start for Philadelphia — not a minute to lose ... ... his chance. He rushes out and shouts: “A half a dollar if you git me to the Capitol in half an hour, and a quarter extra if you do it in twenty minut... ...k Finn, I would jump over. Seen it on the map! Huck Finn, did you reckon the States was the same color out of doors as they are on the map?” “T om Saw... ...don’t it?” “No, it don’t.” “All right, then; if it don’t, there ain’t no two States the same color. You git around that if you can, T om Sawyer.” He ... ...here’d the human race be, do you reckon? That flea would be President of the United States, and you couldn’t any more prevent it than you can prevent ... ... ‘long! we ain’t much more than fairly started across this Desert yet. The United States is a pretty big country, ain’t it? Ain’t it, Huck?” “Yes,” ...

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...umulating, not from the ranks of the half-freed colored people of the free states, but from the very depths of slavery itself; the indestructible equa... ...rgan of the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in the United States. 13 Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on ... ... the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in the United States. 13 Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his ret... ... Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely again... ...ick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely against the ... ...f his paper, may be estimated by the fact, that anti-slavery papers in the United States, even while organs of, and when supported by, anti-slavery pa... ...t attention to the speaker, as the grandest scene he ever witnessed in the capitol. Among those whose eyes were riveted on the speaker full two hours ...

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...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ...te man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which states a fact without interpreting it: it is something like giv ing the ... ...of them that you are allowed to run at all down stream. There’s a law of the United States against it. The river may be rising by the time we get to 1... ..., he promptly resented even the merest sugges tions. Indeed, the law of the United States forbade him to listen to commands or suggestions, rightly c... ...ould get a pilot’s license for him by signing an application directed to the United States Inspector. Noth ing further was needed; usually no questio... ...ifications, no compromises, no half way measures. The magnolia trees in the Capitol grounds were lovely and fragrant, with their dense rich foliage a... ...ers, or wrecks in his road. Sir Walter Scott is probably responsible for the Capitol building; for it is not conceivable that this little sham castle ... ...d to upwards of $52,000,000. He has a custom house, and is building a costly capitol to replace the one recently burned—for he is the capital of the S...

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...iate exponent, in the illimitable city itself—that Rome, whose centre, the Capitol, was immovable as T eneriffe or Atlas, but whose circumference was ... ... a ferocity in his character, and a touch of the devil in him, very rarely united with the same tranquil intrepidity. But for Cæsar, the all-accomplis... ...ed with the same tranquil intrepidity. But for Cæsar, the all-accomplished statesman, the splendid orator, the man of elegant habits and polished tast... ...oke it to the sense,”) is pretty evident, from his conduct on reaching the capitol. For, without any appeal to the senate or the people, but send- ing... ... as it were, rose in a body with one voice, and apparently with one heart, united by mere force of in- dignant sympathy, to put him down, and “abate” ... ...the excesses of the autocrat. Even in the bloody despotisms of the Barbary States, there has always existed in the religious prejudices of the people,... ...to a saloon, where (as in every where else) the silence of night prevails, united with the silence of fear and whispering expectation. All are seated—... ...fully to leave them, saying, “Surge tandem, carnifex.” It is the remark of Capitoline, that “gladiatoria spectacula omnifariam temperavit; temperavit ... ...m faster than they could arise.* And thus the great original sin of modern states, that heel of Achilles in which they are all vulnerable, and which (...

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...y cohorts. And when now all the cities on this side of the river Ebro also united their forces together under his command, his army grew great, for th... ...magogues and the orators in Thebes and Athens, and thus inciting those two States to hostility against Sparta. Having passed the Hellespont, he marche... ... ascendant which he had over Crassus; for he, the wealthiest among all the states- men of his time, and the most eloquent and greatest too, who had lo... ...d in the administration of justice, In deciding controversies of kings and States; and where he himself could not be present in person, he gave commis... ...ies in their hands, to be carried privately in the night and placed in the capitol. Next morning, when some saw them bright with gold and beauti- full... ...en to be, and what a multitude of them appeared and came shouting into the capitol. Many, when they saw Marius’s likeness, cried for joy, and Caesar w... ... now succeeded in making up, and by this means strengthened himself by the united power of both, and so under the cover of an action which carried all... ...g it would not take, rose up, and ordered the crown to be carried into the capitol. Caesar’s statues were afterwards found with royal diadems on their... ...whole course of so long a life never knew but the one woman to whom he was united in his first and only marriage. In the war of the slaves, which took...

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... word,” said Caderousse, from whose mind the friendly treatment of Dantes, united with the effect of the excellent wine he had partaken of, had efface... ...e baron, but the fright of the courtier pleaded for the forbearance of the statesman; and besides, as matters were, it was much more to his advantage ... ...ized the dream of Machiavelli and Caesar Borgia, which was to make Italy a united kingdom.” “Monsieur,” returned the inspector , “providence has chang... ...isted of a plan of his own cell and that of Dantes, with the passage which united them. In this pas- sage he proposed to drive a level as they do in m... ...Colosseum without finding their impressions dulled by first looking on the Capitol, the Forum, the Arch of Septimus Severus, the Temple of Antoninus a... ...nival in the carriage, and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the Capitol, and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preserv... ...ve inspired not only the pontifical govern- ment, but also the neighboring states, with such extreme fear, that they are glad of all opportunity of ma... ...r- ences during the Carnival, knowing full well that among the differ- ent states and kingdoms in which this festivity is celebrated, Rome is the spot...

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...one, but who, nevertheless, possessed a fund of knowledge and penetration, united with a will as powerful as ever although clogged by a body rendered ... ...ses un- der one’s hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and proper... ...w I ex- isted when it was arranged by your two families that you should be united. I have no enmity against M. Franz, and promise you the pun- ishment... ... I entreat you, do as I do, live in suffer- ing; perhaps we may one day be united.” “Adieu, Valentine,” repeated Morrel. “My God,” said Valentine, rai... ...s, styled himself truly at that time Fernand, as our esteemed contemporary states; but he has since added to his Christian name a title of nobility an... ... eve of entering into a sort of speculation already in vogue in the United States and in England, but quite novel in France.” “Yes, yes, I know what y... ...beginning of the chapter, who immediately ran down the road leading to the Capitol at his fullest speed. Danglars was tired and sleepy; he therefore w...

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...te error that has ever characterized the maddest mob. Cler- gymen, judges, statesmen,—the wisest, calmest, holiest per- sons of their day stood in the... ...rt for a purpose, and of lending your strength be it great or small—to the united struggle of mankind. This is suc- cess,—all the success that anybody... ... specimens of the breed, but of all its forefathers and foremothers, whose united excellences and oddities were squeezed into its little body. Its mot... ...ountry newspaper. He had subsequently travelled New England and the Middle States, as a peddler, in the employment of a Connecticut manufac- tory of c... ...society is now suffering for. I doubt whether even our public edifices—our capitols, state-houses, court- houses, city-hall, and churches,—ought to be... ...t we lost,—are essential to the soul’s development. In some cases, the two states come almost simultaneously, and mingle the sadness and the rapture i... ...state in town and country, his railroad, bank, and in- surance shares, his United States stock,—his wealth, in short, however invested, now in possess...