Household, Head of the—See [China and America Compared].

HOUSE OF THE SOUL

This body is my house—it is not I;

Herein I sojourn till, in some far sky

I lease a fairer dwelling, built to last

Till all the carpentry of time is past.

—Unidentified.

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HOUSE, THE MORTAL

When John Quincy Adams was eighty years old he met in the streets of Boston an old friend, who shook his trembling hand, and said: