Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850. by the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1851 - 484 Seiten |
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Seite 254 - This bust is the size of life, and under it is read the following inscription : — " O restos e imagen del grande Colon, mil siglos durad guardados en la urna. Y en la remembrancia de nuestra nacion.
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Seite 84 - ... representing historical subjects. The hall of the House of Representatives is in the second story of the south wing. Its form is semicircular ; it is ninety-six feet long and sixty feet high, and has a dome supported by twenty-four columns of native variegated marble, whose capitals are of Italian marble. The chair of the Speaker occupies, so to say, the centre of the chord of the arc, the members' seats radiate back from the chair to the massive pillars. Congress is not sitting now. The Senate...
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Seite 32 - Other travelers say what they please of them, I am determined not to be prejudiced, but to judge of them exactly as I find them ; and I shall most pertinaciously continue to praise them (if I see no good cause to alter my present humble opinion), and most especially for their obliging civility and...
Seite 256 - On passing the vessels of war in the harbor, they all paid the honors due to an admiral and captain-general of the navy. On arriving at the mole, the remains were met by the governor of the island, accompanied by the generals of the military staff. They were then conveyed, in the utmost pomp, to the cathedral. Masses, and the solemn ceremonies of the dead were performed by the bishop, and the mortal remains of Columbus were deposited in the wall on the right side of the grand altar, where they still...