A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty: Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be Published |
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... have been the case with this fair portion of the earth , if I had not snatched it from obscurity in the very nick of time , at the moment that those matters herein recorded were about entering into the PREFACE . xxix.
... have been the case with this fair portion of the earth , if I had not snatched it from obscurity in the very nick of time , at the moment that those matters herein recorded were about entering into the PREFACE . xxix.
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... earth to the rays of the sun . The latter is , according to the best , that is to say , the latest accounts , a luminous or fiery body , of a prodigious magnitude , from which this world is driven by a centrifugal or repelling B power ...
... earth to the rays of the sun . The latter is , according to the best , that is to say , the latest accounts , a luminous or fiery body , of a prodigious magnitude , from which this world is driven by a centrifugal or repelling B power ...
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... earth was an extended plain , supported by vast pillars ; and by others , that it rested on the head of a snake , or the back of a huge tortoise — but as they did not provide a resting place for either the pillars or the tortoise , the ...
... earth was an extended plain , supported by vast pillars ; and by others , that it rested on the head of a snake , or the back of a huge tortoise — but as they did not provide a resting place for either the pillars or the tortoise , the ...
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... earth is a huge bird , Mecca and Medina con- stitute the head , Persia and India the right wing , the land of Gog the left wing , and Africa the tail . He informs us , moreover , that an earth has existed before the present ( which he ...
... earth is a huge bird , Mecca and Medina con- stitute the head , Persia and India the right wing , the land of Gog the left wing , and Africa the tail . He informs us , moreover , that an earth has existed before the present ( which he ...
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... earth , which , concentrating in a single point of the firmament by day , constitute the sun , but being scattered and rambling about in the dark at night , collect in various points , and form stars . These are regularly burnt out and ...
... earth , which , concentrating in a single point of the firmament by day , constitute the sun , but being scattered and rambling about in the dark at night , collect in various points , and form stars . These are regularly burnt out and ...
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