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Washington Irving. 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 considers as a mere chicken ...
Washington Irving. 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 considers as a mere chicken ...
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Washington Irving. globe really was created , and that it is composed of land and water . It further appears that it is curiously divided and parcelled out into continents and islands , among which I boldly declare the renowned ISLAND OF ...
Washington Irving. globe really was created , and that it is composed of land and water . It further appears that it is curiously divided and parcelled out into continents and islands , among which I boldly declare the renowned ISLAND OF ...
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... land , and said nothing about it , and to this un- pardonable taciturnity of the patriarch may we ascribe the misfortune , that America did not come into the world as early as the other quarters of the globe . It is true , some writers ...
... land , and said nothing about it , and to this un- pardonable taciturnity of the patriarch may we ascribe the misfortune , that America did not come into the world as early as the other quarters of the globe . It is true , some writers ...
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... land of promise , and in full expectation that I will immediately deliver it into their pos- session . But if I do , may I ever forfeit the reputation of a regular bred historian . No - no - most curious and thrice learned readers ( for ...
... land of promise , and in full expectation that I will immediately deliver it into their pos- session . But if I do , may I ever forfeit the reputation of a regular bred historian . No - no - most curious and thrice learned readers ( for ...
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... Canaanites being driven from the land of promise by the Jews , were seized with such a panic , that they fled , without looking behind them , until , stopping to take breath , they found themselves safe in NEW YORK . 19.
... Canaanites being driven from the land of promise by the Jews , were seized with such a panic , that they fled , without looking behind them , until , stopping to take breath , they found themselves safe in NEW YORK . 19.
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Page 95 - To sweeten the beverage a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the teatable by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious expedient which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our...
Page 79 - His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly an hour to each ; he smoked and doubted eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four-and-twenty.
Page 79 - Wouter Van Twiller— a true philosopher, for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and perplexities of this world. He had lived in it for years, without feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he had watched for at least half a century the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling, without once troubling his head with any of those numerous theories by which a philosopher would have perplexed his brain,...
Page 94 - Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed incontestable symptoms of disapprobation and uneasiness at being surprised by a visit from a neighbor on such occasions. But though our worthy ancestors were thus singularly averse to giving dinners, yet they kept...
Page 79 - ... atmosphere. In his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague...
Page 94 - These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse; that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons.
Page 78 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.
Page 79 - His legs were short, but sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain ; so that when erect he had not a little the appearance of a beer barrel on skids.
Page 92 - The houses of the higher class were generally constructed of wood, excepting the gable end which was of small black and yellow Dutch bricks, and always faced on the street, as our ancestors, like their descendants, were very much given to outward show, and were noted for putting the best leg foremost.
Page 75 - Amsterdam in the merry month of June, the sweetest month in all the year; when dan Apollo seems to dance up the transparent firmament...