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 1Inskeep and Bradford, 1812 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... subject again . About two months ago , he went out of a morn- ing , with a bundle in his hand - and has never been heard of since . All kinds of inquiries were made after him , but in vain . I wrote to his re- lations at Scaghtikoke ...
... subject again . About two months ago , he went out of a morn- ing , with a bundle in his hand - and has never been heard of since . All kinds of inquiries were made after him , but in vain . I wrote to his re- lations at Scaghtikoke ...
Page xii
... subjects , and all sides of the question ; in all which he was clearly detected by his style . " He contracted , moreover , a considerable debt at the post office , in consequence of the numer ous letters he received from authors and ...
... subjects , and all sides of the question ; in all which he was clearly detected by his style . " He contracted , moreover , a considerable debt at the post office , in consequence of the numer ous letters he received from authors and ...
Page xiii
... subject , indeed , to be occasionally overflowed , and much infested , in the summer time , with musquitoes ; but other- wise very agreeable , producing abundant crops of salt - grass and bull - rushes . Here , we are sorry to say , the ...
... subject , indeed , to be occasionally overflowed , and much infested , in the summer time , with musquitoes ; but other- wise very agreeable , producing abundant crops of salt - grass and bull - rushes . Here , we are sorry to say , the ...
Page xix
... subject with care , and addresses himself to our judgment , rather than to our imagination . " Thrice happy , therefore , is this our renowned city , in having incidents worthy of swelling the theme of history ; and doubly thrice happy ...
... subject with care , and addresses himself to our judgment , rather than to our imagination . " Thrice happy , therefore , is this our renowned city , in having incidents worthy of swelling the theme of history ; and doubly thrice happy ...
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... subject — though there be many philoso- phers who have entertained very different opinions ; fome too of them , entitled to much deference from their great antiquity and illuftrious characters . Thus it was advanced by fome of the ...
... subject — though there be many philoso- phers who have entertained very different opinions ; fome too of them , entitled to much deference from their great antiquity and illuftrious characters . Thus it was advanced by fome of the ...
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Page 133 - The sage Wouter took them one after the other, and having poised them in his hands, and attentively counted over the number of leaves, fell straightway into a very great doubt, and smoked for half an hour without saying a word...
Page 155 - The young folks would crowd around the hearth, listening with breathless attention to some old crone of a negro who was the oracle of the family, and who, perched like a raven in a corner of the chimney, would croak forth for a long winter afternoon a string of incredible stories about New England witches, grisly ghosts, horses without heads and hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians.
Page 156 - 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. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in winter time, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark.
Page 154 - 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 133 - ... that having carefully counted over the leaves and weighed the books, it was found, that one was just as thick and as heavy...
Page 152 - The house was always furnished with abundance of large doors and small windows on every floor, the date of its erection was curiously designated by iron figures on the front, and on the top of the roof was perched a fierce little weathercock, to let the family into the important secret, which way the wind blew.
Page 153 - ... historian of the day gravely tells us that many of his townswomen grew to have webbed fingers like unto a duck ; and some of them, he had little doubt, could the matter be examined into, would be found to have the tails of mermaids, — but this I look upon to be a mere sport of fancy, or, what is worse, a wilful misrepresentation.
Page xix - Writer must sustain the character of a wise man, writing for the instruction of posterity ; one who has studied to inform himself well, who has pondered his subject with care, and addresses himself to our judgment, rather than to our imagination.