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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... fair cities of antiquity , whose nameless ruins encumber the plains of Europe and Asia , and awaken the fruit- less inquiry of the traveller ? -they have sunk into dust and silence , they have perished from re- membrance for want of a ...
... fair cities of antiquity , whose nameless ruins encumber the plains of Europe and Asia , and awaken the fruit- less inquiry of the traveller ? -they have sunk into dust and silence , they have perished from re- membrance for want of a ...
Page xxi
... 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 wide - spread insatiable maw of oblivion - if I had not ...
... 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 wide - spread insatiable maw of oblivion - if I had not ...
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... fair warning , that I am about to plunge for a chapter or two , into as complete a labyrinth as ever historian was perplex- ed withal therefore I advise them to take faft hold of my skirts , and keep close at my heels , venturing ...
... fair warning , that I am about to plunge for a chapter or two , into as complete a labyrinth as ever historian was perplex- ed withal therefore I advise them to take faft hold of my skirts , and keep close at my heels , venturing ...
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... fairs of this world depends , and how events the moft distant and to the common obferver unconnected , are inevitably confequent the one to the other . It remains to the philofopher to discover these mysterious affinities , and 22 HISTORY ...
... fairs of this world depends , and how events the moft distant and to the common obferver unconnected , are inevitably confequent the one to the other . It remains to the philofopher to discover these mysterious affinities , and 22 HISTORY ...
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... have yet a world of work be- fore us . Think you Think you the first difcoverers of this fair quarter of the globe , had nothing to do but go on VOL . I. 5 fhore and find a country ready laid out and cultivated NEW - YORK . 27.
... have yet a world of work be- fore us . Think you Think you the first difcoverers of this fair quarter of the globe , had nothing to do but go on VOL . I. 5 fhore and find a country ready laid out and cultivated NEW - YORK . 27.
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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.