The Boys and Girls of the White House (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Boys and Girls of the White House Legendary lore says that in 1663, one F ran cis Pope was vouchsafed a vision of the future, in which he beheld a stately house of parlia ment crowning what is now Capitol Hill. With faith in this dream, then, he straightway pur chased the eminence and made himself Pope of Rome, by naming it after the Imperial Ital ian City, while the sluggish stream at its base he called the Tiber. But the world moved slowly in those early. Colonial days, and the visionary Francis passed away before he had seen the fulfilment of his revelation, although he died in the firm belief that his wooded hill would yet be the site of a grand edifice, devoted to the laws and law makers of a mighty empire. 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.