Congress hall; . treatAnd decked with trees and grassy sod the plain, in lines which predict Oh ! how much more shall he be crowned by fameWho formed for lovers this auspicious grove ; and while he does not forget that Even now the sages whom the land convenesTo fix her empire and prescribe her laws,While pensive wandering through these rural scenes,May frame their counsels for a worlds applause, he nevertheless thinks it more suited for enraptured swainswho twine sportive garlands and reveal their wishes and de Warville came to Philadelphia in 1788. He wasmuch impressed by our Q
Congress hall; . treatAnd decked with trees and grassy sod the plain, in lines which predict Oh ! how much more shall he be crowned by fameWho formed for lovers this auspicious grove ; and while he does not forget that Even now the sages whom the land convenesTo fix her empire and prescribe her laws,While pensive wandering through these rural scenes,May frame their counsels for a worlds applause, he nevertheless thinks it more suited for enraptured swainswho twine sportive garlands and reveal their wishes and de Warville came to Philadelphia in 1788. He wasmuch impressed by our Quaker people, and was on terms ofclose and intimate friendship with many of them, includingMiers Fisher, the noted lawyer. His head, filled with decidedopinions concerning philanthropy and the rights of mankind,was cut off by the guillotine in the early days of the French 1 Swanwicks Poems, p. omzm 31 > > 33 > H ZOm 0 m z Dmzom I> I I-> O m I-0 I> enm13 ro oo HI 00. Revolution. He describes what we call the square in thisway: Behind the State House is a public garden. It is theonly one which exists in Philadelphia. It is not large, but it isagreeable. One can breathe there. There are large squaresof green divided by walks. Judge Mitchell, in his interesting address upon the DistrictCourt, delivered twenty years ago, says: There was noentrance on Sixth Street, no partition between the presentQuarter Sessions room and the room of the Highway Depart-ment, and no stairs at that point leading to the second entrance was on Chestnut Street into a vestibule, thenceinto a sort of second vestibule or foyer for spectators, andthen a large room, occupied during the time the Congress sathere after its completion by the House of staircase to the second story was in the vestibule next toChestnut Street, and led up to a similar vestibule, from whichran a broad entry southward to the Senate Chamber, whichwas the present District Cour
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