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 48
... huge perplexity , and as much horrible dissension sown among its members , as of yore was stirred up in the camp of the brawling warriors of Greece . The all potent council of the league , as I have shewn in my last chapter , had ...
... huge perplexity , and as much horrible dissension sown among its members , as of yore was stirred up in the camp of the brawling warriors of Greece . The all potent council of the league , as I have shewn in my last chapter , had ...
Pagina 59
... huge , full bodied man , whose size did not so much arise from his being fat , as windy ; being so completely inflated with his own importance , that he resembled one of those puffed up bags of wind , which old Eolus , in an incredible ...
... huge , full bodied man , whose size did not so much arise from his being fat , as windy ; being so completely inflated with his own importance , that he resembled one of those puffed up bags of wind , which old Eolus , in an incredible ...
Pagina 75
... huge spades - and the coat not being large enough to meet in front , was linked together by loops , made of a pair of red worsted garters . Another had an old cocked hat , stuck on the back of his head and decorated with a bunch of ...
... huge spades - and the coat not being large enough to meet in front , was linked together by loops , made of a pair of red worsted garters . Another had an old cocked hat , stuck on the back of his head and decorated with a bunch of ...
Pagina 79
... huge entertainments , or rather carousals , and in one afternoon's campaign would leave more dead men on the field , than he ever did in the whole course of his military career . Many bulletins of these bloodless victories do still ...
... huge entertainments , or rather carousals , and in one afternoon's campaign would leave more dead men on the field , than he ever did in the whole course of his military career . Many bulletins of these bloodless victories do still ...
Pagina 87
... huge pair of Risingh's jack boots under his arm , and took to his heels , just before the denouement and confusion at the garrison . Finding himself completely dislodged from his haunt in this quarter , he directed his flight towards ...
... huge pair of Risingh's jack boots under his arm , and took to his heels , just before the denouement and confusion at the garrison . Finding himself completely dislodged from his haunt in this quarter , he directed his flight towards ...
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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!