 The dishes were placed all around, and there was an elegant variety of roast beef, veal, turkeys, ducks, fowls, hams, &c.; puddings, jellies, oranges, apples, nuts, almonds, figs, raisins, and a variety of wines and punch. We took our leave at six, more...  The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography - Page 2221884Full view - About this book
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1896 - 378 pages
...dinner at which he 172 o w 3! was, where "there was an elegant variety of roast beef, veal, turkey, ducks, fowls, hams, &c. ; puddings, jellies, oranges,...on by four or five men servants dressed in livery." At the last official dinner the President gave, Bishop White was present, and relates that " to this... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Generals - 1897 - 378 pages
...menu of a dinner at which he 172 was, where "there was an elegant variety of roast beef, veal, turkey, ducks, fowls, hams, &c. ; puddings, jellies, oranges,...on by four or five men servants dressed in livery." At the last official dinner the President gave, Bishop White was present, and relates that " to this... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - History - 1897 - 340 pages
...20 in all. In the middle of the table was placed a piece of table furniture about six feet long and two feet wide rounded at the ends. It was either of...on by four or five men servants dressed in livery." Despite the magnificent table ornaments which the Hon. Mr. Bradbury described with such elaboration,... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1897 - 628 pages
...only. The dishes were placed all around, and there was an elegant variety of roast beef, veal, turkevs, ducks, fowls, hams, &c. ; puddings, jellies, oranges,...on by four or five men servants dressed in livery." 1796. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1. At Philadelphia: Receives from M. Adet, the minister from France, the colors... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1897 - 384 pages
...beef, veal, turkeys, ducks, fowls, hams, &c. ; puddings, jellies, oranges, apples, nuts, almonds, flgs, raisins, and a variety of wines and punch. We took...on by four or five men servants dressed in livery." 1796. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1. At Philadelphia: Receives from M. Adet, the minister from France, the colors... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1898 - 428 pages
...placed all around, and there was an elegant variety of roast beef, veal, turkeys, ducks, fowls, bams, &c. ; puddings, jellies, oranges, apples, nuts, almonds,...on by four or five men servants dressed in livery." 1796. FBIDAY, JANUARY 1. At Philadelphia : Receives from M. Adet, the minister from France, the colors... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1898 - 430 pages
...variety of roast beef, veal, turkeys, ducks, fowls, hams, &c. ; puddings, jellies, oranges, apples, mite, almonds, figs, raisins, and a variety of wines and...on by four or five men servants dressed in livery." i796. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1. At Philadelphia : Receives from M. Adet, the minister from France, the colors... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton - Statesmen - 1910 - 594 pages
...were placed all around and there was an elegant variety of roast beef, veal, turkey, ducks, fowl, ham, puddings, jellies, oranges, apples, nuts, almonds,...on by four or five men servants dressed in livery." 1 It may, perhaps, have been this very dinner of which the ascetic William Maclay, senator from Pennsylvania,... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - History - 1918 - 420 pages
...QUEEN'S NIGHT CAP" HIS1IOP WILLIAM W1MTK U-'rom the portrait by Charles \V. I'enle in Independence Hall) figs, raisins, and a variety of wines and punch. We...on by four or five men servants dressed in livery." The farewell dinner given by Washington was an event that made a deep impression. Concerning the President's... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - United States - 1925 - 460 pages
...only. The dishes were placed all around, and there was an elegant variety of roast beef, veal, turkey, ducks, fowls, hams, &c, puddings, jellies, oranges,...almonds, figs, raisins, and a variety of wines and punches. We took our leave at six, more than an hour after the candles were introduced. No lady but... | |
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