The National Capital
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Noyes, Theodore W.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The National Capital: Newspaper Articles and Speeches Concerning the City of Washington Modern cities, though they never yield to mere old age, are often said to be born, to grow to maturity, and to die like persons. They are similarly afflicted with the diseases of infancy. Many a promising young city succumbs to municipal colic, to the gripings of an unwise economy or "old fogy" stinginess, or to municipal fever, with its flush of apparent health and vigor, and its subsequent exhaustion when this fictitious strength has disappeared. It is the latter disease which fills mining regions with the cadavers of cities. After a brief and feverish existence their frames moulder unburied on the mountain sides, cold, inanimate, startling to the solitary traveler. Man´s vicissitudes of fortune are not denied to cities. They are rich, poor, extravagant, industrious. Some are born "sucking a silver spoon," blessed in situation and natural resources. Others find life a series of difficulties, sometimes overcome by the indomitable energy which turns a bog into the firm foundation of dwellings, and views a vast destruction by fire as a mere clearing of the ground to make room for edifices handsomer than those destroyed. But more frequently early disadvantages and misfortunes overcome the prospective city, just as circumstances of birth and training often pervert or destroy the higher capacities of the thief´s or pauper´s offspring. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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