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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... looks , would needs put him in her best chamber , which is genteelly set off with the profiles of the whole family , done in black , by those two great painters , Jar- vis and Wood ; and commands a very pleasant view of the new grounds ...
... looks , would needs put him in her best chamber , which is genteelly set off with the profiles of the whole family , done in black , by those two great painters , Jar- vis and Wood ; and commands a very pleasant view of the new grounds ...
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... look like Cæsar , or Marcus Aurelius , or the Apollo of Belvidere . As chief mate and favourite companion , the commodore chose Master Robert Juet , of Limehouse , in England . By some his name has been spelled Chewit , and ascribed to ...
... look like Cæsar , or Marcus Aurelius , or the Apollo of Belvidere . As chief mate and favourite companion , the commodore chose Master Robert Juet , of Limehouse , in England . By some his name has been spelled Chewit , and ascribed to ...
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... look beyond their pipes , nor trouble their heads about any affairs out of their immediate neighbourhood ; so that they live in profound and enviable ignorance of all the troubles , anxieties and revolutions of this distracted planet ...
... look beyond their pipes , nor trouble their heads about any affairs out of their immediate neighbourhood ; so that they live in profound and enviable ignorance of all the troubles , anxieties and revolutions of this distracted planet ...
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... looks betoken ease , plen- ty and prosperity - I greatly admire this round fat fish , and doubt not , but this is a happy omen of the success of our undertaking . " So saying , he directed his squadron to steer in the tract of these ...
... looks betoken ease , plen- ty and prosperity - I greatly admire this round fat fish , and doubt not , but this is a happy omen of the success of our undertaking . " So saying , he directed his squadron to steer in the tract of these ...
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... look- ing around them , on what they conceived to be a serene and sunny lake , they beheld at a distance , a crew of painted savages , busily employed in fishing , who seemed more like the genii of this romantic region - their slender ...
... look- ing around them , on what they conceived to be a serene and sunny lake , they beheld at a distance , a crew of painted savages , busily employed in fishing , who seemed more like the genii of this romantic region - their slender ...
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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...