We go to Congress at nine, and there we stay, most earnestly engaged in debates upon the most abstruse mysteries of state, until three in the afternoon ; then we adjourn, and go to dine with some of the nobles of Pennsylvania... The Canadian Historical Review - Page 181922Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 498 pages
...in Boston, at present. I shall be killed with kindness in this place. We go to Congress at nine, and there we stay, most earnestly engaged in debates upon...o'clock, and feast upon ten thousand delicacies, and sir drinking Madeira, Claret, and Burgundy, till six or seven, and then go home fatigued to death with... | |
| 1876 - 1004 pages
...amazed at what he thought their luxury and prodigality. " We go to Congress, at nine," he says, " and there we stay, most earnestly engaged in debates upon...ten thousand delicacies, and sit drinking Madeira, Clarei, and Bnrgumly till six or seven, and then go home fatigued to death with business, company,... | |
| John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1876 - 520 pages
...in Boston, at present. I shall be killed with kindness in this place. We go to Congress at nine, and there we stay, most earnestly engaged in debates upon...go to dine with some of the nobles of Pennsylvania at_ four o'clock, and feast upon ten thousand delicacies, and sit drinking Madeira, Claret, and Burgundy,... | |
| John Torrey Morse - 1884 - 358 pages
...cares and toils. Frorn nine in the morning till three in the afternoon they attended to business, " then we adjourn and go to dine with some of the nobles...fatigued to death with business, company, and care." Similar allusions to "a mighty feast," "an elegant feast," to turtle, rich dishes, and glorious wines... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1893 - 366 pages
...morning till three in the afternoon the delegates attended to business, " then they adjourned and went to dine with some of the nobles of Pennsylvania at four o'clock, and feasted upon ten thousand delicacies, and sat drinking Madeira, Claret, or Burgundy till six or seven,... | |
| 1902 - 874 pages
...again, a little later, "I shall be killed with kindness in this place. We go to Congress at nine, and there we stay, most earnestly engaged in debates upon...four o'clock, and feast upon ten thousand delicacies, INTERIOR DANIEL VOSE (SUFFOLK RESOLVE) HOUSE and sit drinking Madeira, Claret, and Burgundy, till six... | |
| Mary Caroline Crawford - 1903 - 432 pages
...other extract runs : " I shall be killed with kindness in this place. We go to Congress at nine, and there we stay most earnestly engaged in debates upon...Madeira, claret, and Burgundy till six or seven." Just before leaving this " perpetual round of feasting," which occupied perforce so large a share of... | |
| Henry Belcher - 1911 - 440 pages
...on the occasion of his first visit to Philadelphia.1 " We go to Congress at nine, and there we stay until three in the afternoon ; then we adjourn and...Madeira, claret, and Burgundy till six or seven." After which revelry there was a levee somewhere every evening. Yet Mr. Adams was a seasoned vessel.... | |
| 1903 - 792 pages
...again, a little later, "I shall be killed with kindness in this place. \Ve go to Congress at nine, and there we stay, most earnestly engaged in debates upon...some of the nobles of Pennsylvania at four o'clock, nnd feast upon ten thousand delicacies, 366 INTERIOR DANIEL VOSE (SUFFOLK RESOLVE)*HOUSE and sit drinking... | |
| Edmund Cody Burnett - 1921 - 650 pages
...September, 1774. .... I shall be killed with kindness in this place. We go to Congress at nine, and there we stay, most earnestly engaged in debates upon...dine with some of the nobles of Pennsylvania at four 2 Cf. nos. 89, 91, post; see also Caesar Rodney to Thomas Rodney, Sept. 24, Force, Am. Arch., fourth... | |
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