Book/Printed Material At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an American who is no longer young. A serial-- no. 1.
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Image 1 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... F 199 .W265 AT AND NEAR THE CAPITAL: FAMILIAR LETTERS TO A YOUNG AMERICAN FROM AN AMERICAN WHO IS NO LONGER YOUNG A SERIAL.—NUMBER ONE. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 2 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 1800 Class F199 Book .W265- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 3 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... AT AND NEAR THE CAPITAL: FAMILIAR LETTERS TO A YOUNG AMERICAN FROM AN AMERICAN WHO IS NO LONGER YOUNG. By Robert Bruce Warden A SERIAL.—NUMBER ONE. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, COPYRIGHT MAR 26...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 4 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... F199 .W265 Copyright 1886.- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 5 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... FOREWORDS. Some Foreshowing, in addition to that effected in the opening Letter, seems to me dictated by entirely sound considerations. I was at the National Museum, this afternoon. The new inspection that...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 6 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 4 ground taken by me, as to Martial Matters, in the case of Capt. Robert H. Montgomery, in the Court of Claims. But, on the other hand, being an Independent, holding the...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 7 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... AT AND NEAR THE CAPITAL: FAMILIAR LETTERS TO A YOUNG AMERICAN FROM AN AMERICAN WHO IS NO LONGER YOUNG. I. THESE LETTERS.—FEATURES OF THEIR SUBJECTS. AT AND NEAR THE CAPITAL, dear Charlie,...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 8 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 2 A defender of my works and ways when they were worse than savagely assailed—in 1874—placed at my disposal an elaborate paper, in the course of which, after setting forth some letters...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 9 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 3 not far from the grounds of St. Elizabeth's; but it is not within them. Nay, it is not really on their part of the Anacostia Heights at all. The situation of...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 10 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 4 “In presence of such scenery, how can I fail to strive, with good effect, for a new hold of life? “In passing vessels—steamers and sailers—and in railway phenomena, there is an...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 11 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 5 who made up, in numbers, say, a half of the audience that heard that utterance of mine. I shan't deny, if I be charged with having very much desired to find...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 12 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 6 And yet it would have been no little thing to do, dear Son! Consider what a thing “the brightest Home in Washington” would be. You have been living at the Capital,...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 13 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 7 In treating of Home-Life at Washington, I shall take notice of these words of President Cleveland, in his Inaugural: “It is the duty of those serving the people in public place...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 14 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 8 How full application of this doctrine would affect Official Salary, in Civil Life and Martial Life, it will be found of interest to carefully inquire. But I am ready, now to...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 15 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 9 Gentlemen are either of the Army or of the Navy. Types of both the Services were at the tables in the Breakfast Room, a little while ago; and from the window...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 16 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 10 “I put much study on some aspects of the subject, when I gave the necessary leave to your so early-fated Brother, Ernest, when he volunteered for what he deemed, as I...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 17 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 11 But I have also said to You, and I expect to have the right to say to You again, and in this book: “There is here no appeal to nonsense. Not...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 18 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 12 He ought to be completely master of that Art and of the Science, out of which that Art proceeds. Consider, for a moment, the grand compass of the Science, comprehending, not...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 19 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 13 Rational Psychology; and I was quite surprised to find the limitation followed by Webster. Worcester accurately indicates that Nomology is the fit name of the most comprehensive doctrine in respect to...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 20 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 14 Biology no slight attention. But I do not think that they alone should study that Biology. It is of universal interest to educated persons, and it has a special interest for...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 21 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 15 defend the typic glory here accorded to the Horse; and your regard for Washington appears to be just like my own. Indeed, your studies of the Type discernible in him, have,...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 22 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 16 etc., etc., together with a few remarks on Indian Corn, its Culture, etc. Professor Klippart, when he wrote that truly valuable volume, (in 1860,) was the Corresponding Secretary of the Ohio...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 23 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 17 that will hear me, that before the cedars of our village shall have died down with age, and the maple trees of the valley shall have ceased to give us sugar,...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 24 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 18 highest kind seems possible, the religious art of the sand-lands being here joined with that of pleasure or sense. “4. Meadow-lands, including the great pastoral and agricultural districts of the north,...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 25 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 19 This is not meant to intimate that You have been instructed to make little, either of the truly Scientifical or of the Scientists. Not in the least. For real Science and...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 26 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 20 not wished and tried to learn, according to ability and opportunity. I cannot charge myself with any negligence in study. After some reflection, I determine to make an Exhibit from matter...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 27 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 21 “In one sense, and that deep, there is no such thing as magnitude. The least thing is as the greatest, and one day as a thousand years, in the eyes of...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 28 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 22 abolish—so far as abolishable—his own spirit, that he may save more numerous spirits, such question is to be solved by the simple human instinct respecting number and magnitude, not by reasonings...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 29 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 23 things, when forced to paint them, they missed the main and mighty lines; and this no less in what they loved than in what they disliked; for though fond of foliage,...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 30 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 24 may be easily accessible to young students. Here, I will only state in conclusion what it is chiefly important for all students to be convinced of, that all the technical qualities...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 31 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 25 the workman—a question by all other writers on the subject of Architecture wholly forgotten or despised.” Without perceiving here a comprehensive canon in respect to Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture, I regard...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 32 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 26 any given tract, either with respect to its texture, its composition, or its productiveness.’ (a) Even a very limited acquaintance with the geology of Great Britain serves, however, to account for...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 33 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 27 the region around the southern end of the interior lakes of central and western New York.” This vividly reminds me of a very thorough topo-typonomic survey that (your Mother, and yourself...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 34 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 28 districts of the country. So it is with the ‘Palmetto State,’ and with Louisiana. But Ohio, never equalling, in some respects, the States named with her, much surpasses each of them...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 35 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 19a About an Institute. EXHIBIT Elsewhere, I make this explanation, not to You: The term, Typonomy, I must acknowledge, is of my own coinage; but it seems to me an obviously fit...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 36 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 20a “Dr. Frisch uttered this last sentence quite unblushingly, and Bertha, turning from her easel, listened, and did not seem to be disturbed by the quiet and apparently unconscious egotism of the...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 37 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 21a “Est würde das allgemeine Naturbild, das ich zu entwerfen strebe, unvollständig bleiben, wenn ich hier nicht auch den Muth hätte das Menschengeschlecht in seinen physichen Abstufungen, in der geographischen Verbreitung seiner...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 38 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 22a An Open Letter of mine includes these paragraphs: In helping You to fit yourself for creditable Practice of the Law, I have not limited my view to Usefulness alone. In this...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 39 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 23a II. IN the Nomological Department of the Ernest Institute is inculcated, that Life, Law, and Language are the things which Legists ought to study more than other things. My little-published little...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Image 40 of At and near the capital: familiar letters to a young American from an ... 24a But such considerations take us not far toward a thorough comprehension of the intimate relations, binding Law and Language. Let us go back to the word prescribed ( prescrite ) in...- Contributor: Warden, Robert B. (Robert Bruce)
- Date: 1886-01-01