 | William Quereau Force - 1850 - 292 pages
...proportioned to the President's salary. The lighting the apartments, from the kitchen to the parlors and chambers, is a tax indeed ; and the fires we are...daily agues, is another very cheering comfort. To sist us in this great castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not one... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1851 - 708 pages
...well proportioned to the president's salary. The lighting the apartments from the kitchen to parlors and chambers is a tax indeed ; and the fires we are...obliged to keep to secure us from daily agues is another cheering comfort." "If they will put me up some bells — there is not one hung through the whole house,... | |
 | William D'Arcy Haley - 1861 - 274 pages
...well proportioned to the President's salary. The lighting the apartments, from the kitchen to parlors and chambers, is a tax indeed, and the fires we are obliged to koep to secure us from daily agues is another very cheering comfort. To assist us in this great castle,... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 pages
...necessary business of the house and stables. The lighting the apartments, from the kitchen to parlors and chambers, is a tax indeed ; and the fires we are...attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not a single one being hung through the whole house ; and promises are all you can obtain. This is so great... | |
 | Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1870 - 664 pages
...well proportioned to the President's salary. The lighting the apartments from the kitchen to parlors and chambers is a tax indeed, and the fires we are...from daily agues is another very cheering comfort. Bells are wholly wanting; not one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can... | |
 | 1918 - 966 pages
...conveniences were not secured, for Mrs. Adams wrote in her famous letter, on her arrival in November : To assist us in this great castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are almost wholly wanting . . . We have not the least fence, yard, or other convenience without, and the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...well proportioned to the president's salary! The lighting the apartments, from the kitchen to parlors and chambers, is a tax indeed! and the fires we are...to keep, to secure us from daily agues, is another cheering comfort! "If they will puff me up some bells, (there is not one hung in the whole house, and... | |
 | Mary Clemmer - 1873 - 634 pages
...well proportioned to the President's salary. The lighting the apartments from the kitchen to parlors and chambers, is a tax indeed, and the fires we are...another very cheering comfort. To assist us in this castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not one single one being hung... | |
 | Mary Clemmer - 1873 - 640 pages
...well proportioned to the President's salary. The lighting the apartments from the kitchen to parlors and chambers, is a tax indeed, and the fires we are...another very cheering comfort. To assist us in this castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not one single one being hung... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1874 - 378 pages
...apartments, from the kitchen to parlor and chamber, is a tax indeed (candles being used); and the fires which we are obliged to keep to secure us from, daily agues,...attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not a single one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain. If they will... | |
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... 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. 
