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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... hand , I question seri ously , whether he will not be obliged to this authen- tic history , for all his future celebrity . His exit occasioned no convulsion in the city of New Amsterdam , or its vicinity : the earth trem- bled not ...
... hand , I question seri ously , whether he will not be obliged to this authen- tic history , for all his future celebrity . His exit occasioned no convulsion in the city of New Amsterdam , or its vicinity : the earth trem- bled not ...
Pagina 21
... hand of my body but this is grand ! -- this indeed marks the powers of mind , and bespeaks that divine endowment of reason , which distinguishes us from the animals , our inferiors . The unenlighten- ed brutes content themselves with ...
... hand of my body but this is grand ! -- this indeed marks the powers of mind , and bespeaks that divine endowment of reason , which distinguishes us from the animals , our inferiors . The unenlighten- ed brutes content themselves with ...
Pagina 28
... hand , in- form me is invaluable , that all the while the great Peter was occupied in those tremendous and bloody contests , that I shall shortly rehearse , there was a continued series of little , dirty , snivelling , pettifog- ging ...
... hand , in- form me is invaluable , that all the while the great Peter was occupied in those tremendous and bloody contests , that I shall shortly rehearse , there was a continued series of little , dirty , snivelling , pettifog- ging ...
Pagina 31
... hand of nature at a single heat , and though she had taken no further care to polish and refine her workman- ship , he stood forth a miracle of her skill . But not to be figurative , ( a fault in historic writing which I particularly ) ...
... hand of nature at a single heat , and though she had taken no further care to polish and refine her workman- ship , he stood forth a miracle of her skill . But not to be figurative , ( a fault in historic writing which I particularly ) ...
Pagina 41
... hand , and accor- dingly appointed a general inspection and parade of the train bands . But oh ! Mars and Bellona , and all ye other powers of war , both great and small , what a turning out was here ! -Here came men without officers ...
... hand , and accor- dingly appointed a general inspection and parade of the train bands . But oh ! Mars and Bellona , and all ye other powers of war , both great and small , what a turning out was here ! -Here came men without officers ...
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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!