 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...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 - Presidents - 1840 - 308 pages
...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 - Presidents' spouses - 1840 - 304 pages
...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 - Presidents' spouses - 1840 - 320 pages
...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 - Banks and banking - 1841 - 440 pages
...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 - Washington (D.C.) - 1850 - 292 pages
...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 - United States - 1851 - 708 pages
...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 - United States - 1851 - 792 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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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... 
