Library of Congress and the Interior Decorations: A Practical Guide for Visitors with Descriptions of All the Painting, Sculptures and Statues, the Wall Quotations, Floor Plans, and Sixteen Interior Views from Photographs |
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... glass . The floors separating the stories are of white marble . The stacks are lighted by large windows of solid plate glass , with- out sash , each window being thus a single plate . The courts into which they look on both sides are ...
... glass . The floors separating the stories are of white marble . The stacks are lighted by large windows of solid plate glass , with- out sash , each window being thus a single plate . The courts into which they look on both sides are ...
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... glass , the old - fash- ioned printing press , the stork ( as the bird of home ) , and a winged Pegasus . In the minor tympanum a cartouche set in a garland of fruits bears the legend : " Homage to Gutenberg . " ( Gutenberg , the ...
... glass , the old - fash- ioned printing press , the stork ( as the bird of home ) , and a winged Pegasus . In the minor tympanum a cartouche set in a garland of fruits bears the legend : " Homage to Gutenberg . " ( Gutenberg , the ...
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... glasses carry out the same idea . Yellow , the Light of Creation . - Back of the suns and worlds evolving from the formless void is dimly discerned the shadowy presence of the Creator . The tab- let is inscribed with the Divine command ...
... glasses carry out the same idea . Yellow , the Light of Creation . - Back of the suns and worlds evolving from the formless void is dimly discerned the shadowy presence of the Creator . The tab- let is inscribed with the Divine command ...
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... glass , Farmer with sickle and sheaf of wheat , Fisherman with rod and fish , Soldier with helmet , Chemist with blowpipe , and Cook with a steaming pot . The buttress figures are of America and Africa , supporting a globe showing these ...
... glass , Farmer with sickle and sheaf of wheat , Fisherman with rod and fish , Soldier with helmet , Chemist with blowpipe , and Cook with a steaming pot . The buttress figures are of America and Africa , supporting a globe showing these ...
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... glass ; she is attended by a peacock , pleasing to look upon . Smell inhales the fragrance of a full - blown rose , plucked from a bank of flowers by her side . Hearing presses to her ear a shell which murmurs of the sea . Touch looks ...
... glass ; she is attended by a peacock , pleasing to look upon . Smell inhales the fragrance of a full - blown rose , plucked from a bank of flowers by her side . Hearing presses to her ear a shell which murmurs of the sea . Touch looks ...
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American eagle arch Archæology ARCHITECT Architecture book-stacks border bronze doors building caduceus Capitol cartouche carved Central Stair Hall CHIEF OF ENGINEERS corners decorations dome east hall EDWARD PEARCE EDWARD PEARCE CASEY emblematic emblems Entrance Pavilion-First Entrance Pavilion-Second female figures Fust Gallery garlands genii genius globe goddess Greek Herodotus holds Il Penseroso inscribed inscription interior L'Allegro lamp laurel-crowned Librarian's Room LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Light Literature lyre Lyric Poetry MANTEL marble Martiny's Minerva mosaic Muse Music names naval crown Niehaus North Corridor North Hall Northeast pavilion numbers Omphale open book palette Parthenon PAVILION OF SECOND Pavilion-Second Floor peace picture pneumatic tubes Poetry Printers reclining represented rostral column Rotunda Science scroll Sculpture seals Second Entrance pavilion SENATE READING ROOM series begins serpent shield Sibyl side SMITHMEYER South Curtain Corridor South Hall Southwest Pavilion stack Standard Guide story supporting sword symbols tablet torch tympanum typified wall West Corridor winged woman
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Page 13 - This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 21 - To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Page 22 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Page 16 - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 5 - There was a Boy : ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander ! — many a time At evening, when the earliest stars began To move along the edges of the hills, Rising or setting, would he stand alone Beneath the trees or by the glimmering lake, And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him ; and they would...
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Page 12 - Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Page 21 - Let our object be, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever...
Page 6 - The knighthood-errant of this realm and all The realms together under me, their Head, In that fair Order of my Table Round, A glorious company, the flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time.
Page 15 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his Sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.