 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1901 - 758 pages
...Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance, — and we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortises exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1938 - 538 pages
...joined together and see they exactly make the frame of a house or mill, all the tenons and mortises exactly, adapted to their respective places and not a piece too many or too few — not omitting ever scaffolding — * * * in such a case we find it impossible not to believe that * * * all [the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1958 - 514 pages
...times and places and by different workmen, and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortises exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few — in such... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1958 - 498 pages
...times and places and by different workmen, and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortises exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few — in such... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 pages
...Franklin, Roger and James, for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the...scaffolding — or, if a single piece be lacking, we can see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in — in such a... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 pages
...Franklin, Roger and James, for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the...a piece too many or too few — not omitting even the scaffolding — or if a single piece be lacking we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - 1991 - 474 pages
...Franklin, Roger and James, for instance— and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the...not a piece too many or too few— not omitting even the scaffolding— or if a single piece be lacking we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 pages
...Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortises exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted... | |
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But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen -Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James,* for instance... 
