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Book/Printed MaterialImage 1 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... Reminiscences of Georgetown, D. C. SECOND LECTURE DELIVERED IN THE METH. PROTESTANT CHURCH, GEORGETOWN, D. C MARCH 9, 1859. BY REV. T. B. BALCH. WASHINGTON: HENRY POLKINHORN, PRINTER. 1859.
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 2 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 3 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... Reminiscences of Georgetown, D. C. SECOND LECTURE DELIVERED IN THE METH. PROTESTANT CHURCH, GEORGETOWN, D. C. MARCH 9, 1859. BY REV. T. B. BALCH. WASHINGTON: HENRY POLKINHORN, PRINTER. 1859.
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 4 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... TO MISS ELIZABETH DICK. FOR SIXTY YEARS A RESIDENT OF GEORGETOWN, THIS SECOND LECTURE, COMPOSED OF JUVENILE REMINISCENCES, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THE AUTHOR.
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 5 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... More Reminiscences of Georgetown, D. C. The Creator has been pleased to bestow on man the power of retrospection, while our prospective faculty has been limited for wise purposes. Burke indeed foretold...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 6 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 4 into fresh irritation! Many are the instances of remarkable memory given in literary works, but none more remarkable than the one stated in the life of the quaint Thomas Fuller, who...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 7 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 5 said about as coolly as if he had been Nicholas of Russia, and had spoken it in the palace which Catherine the Second built out of the ice of the Neva....
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 8 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 6 than four years, and his adventures have been wrought up into an inimitable romance by De Foe, who lived in the rein of William, Prince of Orange. No shire in Scotland...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 9 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 7 Charles the Second was then waging in Scotland. In this way suspicion may have been engendered, and that suspicion may have passed into a myth. The times were lawless in Scotland...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 10 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 8 Cumberland or Staffordshire, in England. He had two daughters, one of whom married a great nephew of General Washington, and the other Major John Peter, who was once mayor of Georgetown....
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 11 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 9 at the battle of Waterloo, found out that he had not thrown a sufficiency of powder and ball into a particular point of his line, he apologized for himself by saying...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 12 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 10 fair. And who can tell but that many nuptial altars and feasts resulted from attendance on the Georgetown conventions? In these bad, fashionable times, when our daughters are to be married,...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 13 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 11 Winder, the American. Our troops were forced to retreat; but not until the invaders had been severely handled by the marines of Commodore Barney, and the artillery of Major George Peter—the...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 14 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 12 His eldest daughter, Mrs. Ewell, has just departed this life, at the age of seventy-four. Her farm in Virginia lay next to mine, and it was often pleasant to review old...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 15 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 13 Hen. Judge Dunlop, about 1818, and his son still survives, who had the advantage of a residence under the roof of Dr. Chalmers whilst pursuing his education in Scotland. With staff...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 16 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 14 London to the age of one hundred and sixty-two—and Jenkins, who lived in Lincoln to the age of one hundred and seventy-five. It may not be desirable perhaps to live to...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 17 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 15 this, however, he used with uncommon bravery and dexterity. We only wish that he could have brought to bear on the enemy some pieces of ordnance that used in old times...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 18 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 16 by a servant; but alas! he could not behold those lights and shades which diversify the atmosphere of our town. The place to him was nothing more than a blank, and...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 19 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 17 Even in old age he was a contented, cheerful, and happy man, fond of social life, a great reader of newspapers, disquieted by nothing, a profound believer in an overruling Providence,...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 20 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 18 There may be a very distant connection, for Miss Aikin, in her life of the periodical essayist, makes Launcelot Addison, father of Joseph, to have been born in Cumberland, the same...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 21 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 19 work. This was a remarkable faculty. James Anthony, who was one of the fixtures of the Union hotel, tried him with several difficult sums. The boy had an enormous head, and...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 22 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 20 little touched by this mania. When we consider how penuriously they are paid for their services we need not be amazed at the fact. Their ambition was to rule over the...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 23 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 21 his overseer. “What made you disobey my orders?” “Falling asleep just after you left me,” he replied, “the spirit of Solomon appeared to me in a dream, and told me that...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 24 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 22 with military honors. They devoured every herb. The gardens perished before them; and they waged a sweet war with the sugars of our merchants, and all the honey vials and bottles...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 25 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 23 Council shall pass a pension bill for our soldiers of 1839, we hope that our Senate, composed of Aldermen, will not call them fugitives. Men, most happily, cannot always keep fighting;...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 26 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 24 But there are certain grave matters which must be postponed to some future occasion, not wishing to weary my audience. It was my wish to have discussed the principle of retrocession,...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 27 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 25 edified with this transient intercourse among our citizens. Were my cottage here, instead of Virginia, it would give me no slight pleasure to see you lifting the latch of its gate,...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 28 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ... 26 —“How beautiful on the mountains and plains are the feet of them who bring glad tidings of Peace.” It would be needless in me to say that he was a fine...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 29 of Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. : second lecture delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, ...
- Contributor: Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer)
- Date: 1859-01-01