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 Published, Volume 1 |
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... heart - of great literary research , and a curious collector of books . At parting , the latter , in testi- mony of friendship , made him a present of the two oldest works in his collection ; which were , the earliest edition of the ...
... heart - of great literary research , and a curious collector of books . At parting , the latter , in testi- mony of friendship , made him a present of the two oldest works in his collection ; which were , the earliest edition of the ...
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... heart and thin pair of breeches , Will go through the world , my brave boys ! " Such was the gallant junto chosen to conduct this voy- age into unknown realms , and the whole was put under the superintending care and direction of Oloffe ...
... heart and thin pair of breeches , Will go through the world , my brave boys ! " Such was the gallant junto chosen to conduct this voy- age into unknown realms , and the whole was put under the superintending care and direction of Oloffe ...
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... heart of man dissolved away in tenderness . Oh ! sweet Theocritus ! had I thine oat- en reed , wherewith thou erst did charm the gay Sicilian plains Or Oh ! gentle Bion ! thy pastoral pipe , wherein the happy swains of the Lesbian isle ...
... heart of man dissolved away in tenderness . Oh ! sweet Theocritus ! had I thine oat- en reed , wherewith thou erst did charm the gay Sicilian plains Or Oh ! gentle Bion ! thy pastoral pipe , wherein the happy swains of the Lesbian isle ...
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... hearts of the heroes of Communi- paw were not a little troubled . But as good fortune would have it , at the bow of ... heart of the good Van Kortlandt - who , Properly spelt hocck ( i . e . ) a point of land . having no land of his own ...
... hearts of the heroes of Communi- paw were not a little troubled . But as good fortune would have it , at the bow of ... heart of the good Van Kortlandt - who , Properly spelt hocck ( i . e . ) a point of land . having no land of his own ...
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... heart of this excellent Burgher seem to rise up towards his throat , until he seemed crammed and almost choked with good eating and good nature . And at such times it is , when a man's heart is in his throat , that he may more truly be ...
... heart of this excellent Burgher seem to rise up towards his throat , until he seemed crammed and almost choked with good eating and good nature . And at such times it is , when a man's heart is in his throat , that he may more truly be ...
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Amphyctions Amsterdam ancestors ancient Anthony Van Corlear arms battle breeches burghers burgomasters called CHAPTER city of New-Amsterdam colony commander Communipaw Connecticut coun Curlet descendants divers doubt Dutch earth enemy eyes fair favourite Fort Amsterdam Fort Casimir Fort Christina gallant garrison Gibbet Island grand council hand head heart heaven heroes historian honest honour Hudson huge illustrious immortal Indians ingenious inhabitants island King Arthur Kortlandt land learned likewise Manetho Manhattoes manner ment mighty mind Moss-troopers Mynheer nation neighbours Netherlands never New-York Nicholas Nieuw Nederlandts old governor Oloffe pericranium perilous Peter Stuyvesant Peter the Headstrong philosophers pipe Poffenburgh present privy counsellors profound province readers reign Risingh river sage savages settlement shores smoke sound sturdy Swedes sword thing tion took tranquillity trumpet turn valiant voyage warriors whole Wilhelmus Wilhelmus Kieft William Kieft William the Testy word worthy Wouter Van Twiller Yankees yore
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Page 111 - 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 tea-table, 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...
Page 110 - The company being seated around the genial board, and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in lanching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish — in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon in the lakes.
Page 92 - ... apple. 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 90 - The renowned Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller was descended from a long line of Dutch burgomasters, who had successively dozed away their lives and grown fat upon the bench of magistracy in Rotterdam, and who had comported themselves with such singular wisdom and propriety that they were never either heard or talked of — which, next to being universally applauded, should be the object of ambition of all magistrates and rulers.
Page 98 - Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? — No — no— it is your lean, hungry men, who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Page 109 - As to the family, they always entered in at the gate, and most generally lived in the kitchen. To have seen a numerous household assembled...
Page 112 - The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door...
Page 109 - The fire-places were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole family, old and young, master and servant, black and white, nay, even the very cat and dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner.
Page 93 - Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasional grunt, as he shovelled a spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth — either as a sign that he relished the dish, or comprehended the story — he called unto him his constable, and pulling out of his...
Page 93 - The morning after he had been installed in office, and at the moment that he was making his breakfast from a prodigious earthen dish, filled with milk and Indian pudding, he was...