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 Time that Ever Hath Been, Or Ever Will be Published, Volume 2Inskeep & Bradford, 1809 |
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Pagina 16
... field , but in other respects , ( meaning no disparagement ) as great a dom cop , as if he had been educated among that learned people of Thrace , who Aristotle most slanderously assures us , could not count beyond the number four . But ...
... field , but in other respects , ( meaning no disparagement ) as great a dom cop , as if he had been educated among that learned people of Thrace , who Aristotle most slanderously assures us , could not count beyond the number four . But ...
Pagina 40
... field piece discharged , without stopping their ears or falling into much confusion - and would even go through all the fatigues and perils of a sum- mer day's parade , without having their ranks much thinned by desertion ! True it is ...
... field piece discharged , without stopping their ears or falling into much confusion - and would even go through all the fatigues and perils of a sum- mer day's parade , without having their ranks much thinned by desertion ! True it is ...
Pagina 41
... , about the streets of New Amsterdam , and the fields adja- cent , till I warrant me , their short legs ached , and their fat sides sweated again . But this was not all ; the martial spirit of the old governor caught NEW YORK . 41.
... , about the streets of New Amsterdam , and the fields adja- cent , till I warrant me , their short legs ached , and their fat sides sweated again . But this was not all ; the martial spirit of the old governor caught NEW YORK . 41.
Pagina 42
... field . But so it came to pass , that in the night there fell a great and heavy rain , which descended in torrents upon the camp , and the mighty army of swing tails strangely melted away before it ; so that when Gaffer Phoebus came to ...
... field . But so it came to pass , that in the night there fell a great and heavy rain , which descended in torrents upon the camp , and the mighty army of swing tails strangely melted away before it ; so that when Gaffer Phoebus came to ...
Pagina 61
... field , instead of the field of battle . Who have surrendered the toils of war , for the more useful but inglorious arts of peace , and so blended the laurel with the olive , that you may have a general for a landlord , a colonel for a ...
... field , instead of the field of battle . Who have surrendered the toils of war , for the more useful but inglorious arts of peace , and so blended the laurel with the olive , that you may have a general for a landlord , a colonel for a ...
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Pagina 186 - You know it was said he carried the sword in one hand, and the olive branch in the other; and it seems he chose to give them a taste of the sword first.
Pagina 58 - Some five or six inches long. so .Had you but seen him in this dress, How fierce he look'd and how big, You would have thought him for to be Some Egyptian porcupig. He frighted all, cats, dogs, and all, 35 Each cow, each horse, and each hog : For fear they did flee, for they took him to be Some strange outlandish hedge-hog.
Pagina 223 - Scarce had he buffeted half-way over, when he was observed to struggle violently, as if battling with the spirit of the waters— instinctively he put his trumpet to his mouth, and giving a vehement blast— sank forever to the bottom!