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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... head . 1 h To a profour philosopher , like myself , who am apt to see clear through a subject , where the penetration of ordinary people extends but half way , there is no fact more simple and manifest , than that the death of a great ...
... head . 1 h To a profour philosopher , like myself , who am apt to see clear through a subject , where the penetration of ordinary people extends but half way , there is no fact more simple and manifest , than that the death of a great ...
Pagina 4
... heads in silent sorrow ; and as to the sun , he laid abed the next night , just as long , and shewed as jolly a face when he arose , as he ever did on the same day of the month in any year , either before or since . The good people of ...
... heads in silent sorrow ; and as to the sun , he laid abed the next night , just as long , and shewed as jolly a face when he arose , as he ever did on the same day of the month in any year , either before or since . The good people of ...
Pagina 7
... head , as did the heroes of yore upon their single arms , to work his way through all difficulties and dangers . To tell the simple truth he wanted no other requisite for a perfect statesman , than to think always right , for no one can ...
... head , as did the heroes of yore upon their single arms , to work his way through all difficulties and dangers . To tell the simple truth he wanted no other requisite for a perfect statesman , than to think always right , for no one can ...
Pagina 8
... HEAD- STRONG - a great compliment to his understanding ! If from all that I have said thou dost not gather , worthy reader , that Peter Stuyvesant was a tough , sturdy , valiant , weatherbeaten , mettlesome , leath- ernsided , lion ...
... HEAD- STRONG - a great compliment to his understanding ! If from all that I have said thou dost not gather , worthy reader , that Peter Stuyvesant was a tough , sturdy , valiant , weatherbeaten , mettlesome , leath- ernsided , lion ...
Pagina 12
... head to foot , with a countenance that would have appall- ed any thing else than a sounder of brass- " Pry- thee who and what art thou ? " said he.- " Sire , " re- plied the other in no wise dismayed , " for my name , it is Antony Van ...
... head to foot , with a countenance that would have appall- ed any thing else than a sounder of brass- " Pry- thee who and what art thou ? " said he.- " Sire , " re- plied the other in no wise dismayed , " for my name , it is Antony Van ...
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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!