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 Or Ever Will be Published |
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... immediately descended with astonishing precision upon the head of the philosopher . A hollow sound , and a red - hot hiss , attended the contact ; but the theory was in the amplest manner illustrated , for the unfortunate buck- et ...
... immediately descended with astonishing precision upon the head of the philosopher . A hollow sound , and a red - hot hiss , attended the contact ; but the theory was in the amplest manner illustrated , for the unfortunate buck- et ...
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... immediately asserted in this age of scepticism that they did not come at all ; and if they did not come at all , then was this country never populated - a conclusion perfectly agreeable to the rules of logic , but wholly irreconcileable ...
... immediately asserted in this age of scepticism that they did not come at all ; and if they did not come at all , then was this country never populated - a conclusion perfectly agreeable to the rules of logic , but wholly irreconcileable ...
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... immediately concluded with a shrewdness that would have done honour to a philosopher , that he had found the ancient Ophir , from whence Solomon procured the gold for embel- lishing the temple at Jerusalem ; nay , Colon even imagined ...
... immediately concluded with a shrewdness that would have done honour to a philosopher , that he had found the ancient Ophir , from whence Solomon procured the gold for embel- lishing the temple at Jerusalem ; nay , Colon even imagined ...
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... immediately declaring hostilities against every writer who had treated of the same subject . In this particular , authors may be com- pared to a certain sagacious bird , which in building its nest , is sure to pull to pieces the nests ...
... immediately declaring hostilities against every writer who had treated of the same subject . In this particular , authors may be com- pared to a certain sagacious bird , which in building its nest , is sure to pull to pieces the nests ...
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... immediately despatched to enter into a treaty with them , and approaching the shore , hailed them through a trumpet , in the most friendly terms ; but so horribly confounded were these poor savages VICTORY OVER THE NATIVES . 97 at the ...
... immediately despatched to enter into a treaty with them , and approaching the shore , hailed them through a trumpet , in the most friendly terms ; but so horribly confounded were these poor savages VICTORY OVER THE NATIVES . 97 at the ...
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Page ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Page 153 - This decision, being straightway made known, diffused general joy throughout New Amsterdam, for the people immediately perceived that they had a very wise and equitable magistrate to rule over them. But its happiest effect was, that not another lawsuit took place throughout the whole of his administration ; and the office of constable fell into such decay, that there was not...
Page 144 - Nederlandts, under the commission and control of their High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Netherlands, and the privileged West India Company. This renowned old gentleman arrived at New Amsterdam in the merry month of June, the sweetest month in all the year; when Dan Apollo seems to dance up the transparent firmament — when the robin, the thrush, and a thousand other wanton songsters make the woods to resound with amorous ditties, and the luxurious little...
Page 148 - This, by the way, is a mere casual remark, which I would not for the universe have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller.
Page 171 - 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 152 - The sage Wouter took the,m 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 175 - Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully...
Page 171 - 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. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks...
Page 150 - He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent pipe would...
Page 91 - Cabin, and gave them so much wine and aqua vitae that they were all merrie; and one of them had his wife with him, which sate so modestly, as any of our Countrey women would do in a strange place.