The Journal of Latrobe Being the Notes And Sketches of An Architect Naturalist
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We are equally ignorant if the question were put respecting ourselves. To be happy? Why then is half our life at least spent in misery and a great part of the remainder in sleep and apathy. Is there a smile but what is bought with a tear? Is there a glory but what cost the wretchedness of thousands? A feast but what is enriched by the spoils of Death. The Hindoo s advice is good: " Since all things are uncertain, repose thyself " CHAPTER VII THE BUILDING OF THE NATIONAL CAPITOL, WITH EXPRESSION...S OF THE AUTHOR S CANONS OF ART I WAS introduced in. 1798 to Dr. William Thorn ton, then one of the commissioners of Washing ton City, by William McClure, Esq. , now one of the commissioners of the United States at Paris. I was then on my way to Philadelphia to take upon me the direction of the Bank of Pennsylvania and the supply of the city with water. Of course I had no objects to solicit in Washington. I spent the afternoon with the doctor. One of the first subjects introduced was the plan of the Capitol, of which he had a ground plan and east elevation.
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