 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 320 стор.
...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 about...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 us from daily... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 308 стор.
...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 about...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 us from daily... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1841 - 598 стор.
...gown was a luxury that few arrived at, and its advent in the family an evrnt of sufficient in. Hi - in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables — nn establishment very well proportioned to the President's salary. The lighting the apartments,... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1841 - 440 стор.
...Holland." " You 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...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 - 1850 - 292 стор.
...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 about...salary. The lighting the apartments, from the kitchen to the parlors and chambers, is a tax indeed ; and the fires we are obliged to keep, to secure us from... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1851 - 792 стор.
...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...business of the house and stables : an establishment," she ironically adds, " very well proportioned to the president's salary. The lighting the apartments... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 732 стор.
...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 about...kitchen to parlors and chambers is a tax indeed, and the tires we are oblige'd to keep to secure us from daily agues is another very cheering comfort. To assist... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 728 стор.
...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 about...apartments from the kitchen to parlors and chambers is u tax indeed, nnd the fires we are obliged to keep to secure us from daily agues is another very cheering... | |
 | William D'Arcy Haley - 1861 - 274 стор.
...her daughter, gave her impressions of the President's "house and the city as follows :— The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring about...and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables—an establishment very well proportioned to the President's salary. The lighting the apartments,... | |
 | Viator - 1864 - 302 стор.
...rather uncomfortable time, for it was of this house that Mrs. Adams wrote as follows : " The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring about...proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the honse and stables — an establishment very well proportioned to the President's salary. The lighting... | |
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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 ; an establishment very well proportioned to the President's salary. 
