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... corner is animate , and that its circular upper windows are two eyes longingly gazing at the flat and unfinished - looking Hare building , as if it would like to fly over and take position nearer the earth's surface , using the top of ...
... corner is animate , and that its circular upper windows are two eyes longingly gazing at the flat and unfinished - looking Hare building , as if it would like to fly over and take position nearer the earth's surface , using the top of ...
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... corner of Bank street , next attracted my attention ; then the Burrow and Peter Smith buildings centered the eyes , on account of their conspicuous situation at the head of Market Square . Diagonally across from these last - described ...
... corner of Bank street , next attracted my attention ; then the Burrow and Peter Smith buildings centered the eyes , on account of their conspicuous situation at the head of Market Square . Diagonally across from these last - described ...
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... corner of the globe . Huge blocks of mottled stone from the rugged mount- ains of Tennessee , statuary marble from sunny Italy , oranges from the groves of Florida , rice from the marshes of South Carolina , iron ore from New River ...
... corner of the globe . Huge blocks of mottled stone from the rugged mount- ains of Tennessee , statuary marble from sunny Italy , oranges from the groves of Florida , rice from the marshes of South Carolina , iron ore from New River ...
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... corner , after crossing the street named in honor of our first President , I had an opportunity of looking at the NORFOLK COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES . The appearance of the Granby street front is solid , spa- cious and neat , but any one ...
... corner , after crossing the street named in honor of our first President , I had an opportunity of looking at the NORFOLK COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES . The appearance of the Granby street front is solid , spa- cious and neat , but any one ...
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... corner of Free Mason and THE GRANBY STREET METHODIST CHURCH . It has a fine front , consisting of four magnificent Ionic columns , which support a well - proportioned and well- designed entabliture . So far so good , if the architect ...
... corner of Free Mason and THE GRANBY STREET METHODIST CHURCH . It has a fine front , consisting of four magnificent Ionic columns , which support a well - proportioned and well- designed entabliture . So far so good , if the architect ...
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advertisement Agent Albemarle appearance architectural Atlantic attractive avenue Baltimore Bank street beautiful Bern Bros building Canal cemeteries centre Chesapeake Church street citizens of Norfolk Commerce street Company corner cotton court-house crossing CURRITUCK COUNTY Dealers Doric order Edenton Editor and Proprietor Elizabeth City erected Fearing street Free Mason Free Mason street freight front GATESVILLE give Granby street granite grounds handsome harbor Hotel interest iron Kinston Lambert's Point land leading business houses look magnificent Main street mansard Manufacturers marble Marine Market Square Middle street monuments Navigation neat Neuse Norfolk Southern Norfolk Southern Railroad North Carolina Nowitzky's ornamented Pamlico park Pasquotank passengers Perquimans county Portsmouth pretty railroad RALEIGH road Roanoke river solid sound and river South stands steam-boats steamer stone stranger stream structure substantial surroundings tion tower town trees Trent River Virginia walk walls Washington Water street weekly well-designed wharf wharves Wholesale and Retail
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Page 67 - Napoleon utter a more original truth than when he said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous...
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Page 67 - there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous," but in this case the sense is reversed : the outside is ridiculous — the inside is sublime.
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