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xvi ページ - opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the countryfolk to be up and to arm.” — From Longfellow's poem, “Paul Revere's Ride.” THE EVACUATION OF BOSTON 167 From an engraving by FT Stuart of the drawing by L. Hollis. March 17th is still celebrated
xvi ページ - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, If by sea; And I on
64 ページ - your guide and mentor. The first time I stood at the Tip Top House was at ten o'clock at night in the first week of September, 1841, with a crowbar in my hand as I pressed upon the door. It was after a tramp from Randolph which had lasted seventeen hours and had taken us over Jefferson and through one or two
361 ページ - design.” A letter from Jefferson, Secretary of State, dated January 15, 1791, says, “The President thinks it would be better that the outline at least of the city, and perhaps Georgetown, should be laid down in a plat of
361 ページ - territory. I have only now to send it and to desire that Major Ellicott may do it as soon as convenient, that it may be returned in time to be laid before
91 ページ - STARK. testimony of the high sense this Court have of the great and important services rendered by that officer.” Did any one think to send Admiral Dewey a
109 ページ - societies of Italy, — books and prints which had been issued, well, let us say it among ourselves, for as dainty people as you and I are, for the elegant students of Browning or of
363 ページ - find that the plan of the city was originally designed by Mr. L'Enfant, but that it was in many respects rejected by the President of the United States, and a plan drawn up by Mr. Ellicott which recognized the alterations made therein was engraved and published by the order of General Washington in 1792.” On the authority of this very strong statement in an official report,
414 ページ - the New Willard or the Driscoll or the Normandie or all of them every day and shake hands with Mrs. Vanderlip, to whom you gave her degree at Chautauqua in 1893, or with Mr. Champernoon, whose father was at school with WHITE HOUSE. you at the Latin School in 1833. They will tell you the last news
366 ページ - run east and west; and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, etc., represent the streets which run north and south. But L'Enfant was a man of affairs — in a way he was a prophet — and he said to himself, “For what is this city built?