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  • You get to State-house through processes that involve the people and there are motions and rituals to go through.

    Simon Chimbetu 2005

  • State-house, so's they can get up it easy an 'save their wind.

    The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

  • There are still some remains of the productions of the old craftsmen of the city in the State-house of

    Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

  • Mr. George Stevens was a pettifogging attorney, who derived a tolerable income from a rather disreputable legal practice picked up among the courts that held their sessions in the various halls of the State-house.

    The Garies and Their Friends Frank J. Webb

  • [67] Both briefs are preserved in the archives of the State-house of

    Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius

  • From the first, Lincoln and Douglas were thrown constantly together in the social life of the town, and often pitted against each other in what were the real forums of the State at that day -- the space around the huge "Franklin" stove of some obliging store-keeper, the steps of somebody's law office, a pile of lumber, or a long timber, lying in the public square, where the new State-house was going up.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 Various

  • State-house shown in this picture was the third and last one.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 Various

  • In Philadelphia it is necessary to be punctual to a second, for there everybody breathes by the State-house clock If you make an appointment to meet anywhere, your body must be in a right line with the frame of the door at the instant the first stroke of the great clock sounds.

    The Laws of Etiquette Unknown

  • As the ringing of the bell on the old State-house when the Declaration of Independence was passed proclaimed the coming liberties of the American colonies, so this sounding of the great bell of Wittenberg when Luther was made doctor of divinity proclaimed and heralded to the nations of the earth the coming deliverance of the enslaved Church.

    Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties Joseph A. Seiss

  • State-house, which is built upon Beacon Hill, just outside the highest extremity of the park, and from the top of which a splendid panoramic view of the whole town and neighbourhood is obtained.

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

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