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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... kind historian take him into favour , and benevolently transmit his name to posterity- and much as the valiant William Kieft worried , and bustled , and turmoiled , while he had the desti- pies of a whole colony in his hand , I question ...
... kind historian take him into favour , and benevolently transmit his name to posterity- and much as the valiant William Kieft worried , and bustled , and turmoiled , while he had the desti- pies of a whole colony in his hand , I question ...
Pagina 22
... kind offices ; but a contest of skill between two powers , which shall over - reach and take in the other . It is a cunning endeavour to obtain by peaceful manœuvre , and the chicanery of cabinets , those advantages , which a nation ...
... kind offices ; but a contest of skill between two powers , which shall over - reach and take in the other . It is a cunning endeavour to obtain by peaceful manœuvre , and the chicanery of cabinets , those advantages , which a nation ...
Pagina 61
... kind of man that the gallant Peter the Headstrong would have chosen to command his troops - but the truth is , that in those days the province did not abound , as at pre- . sent , in great military characters ; who like so many ...
... kind of man that the gallant Peter the Headstrong would have chosen to command his troops - but the truth is , that in those days the province did not abound , as at pre- . sent , in great military characters ; who like so many ...
Pagina 62
... kind upon the premises . The Swedes did not suffer tamely this mena- cing movement of the Nederlanders ; on the con- trary Jan Printz , at that time governor of New Sweden , issued a sturdy protest against what he termed an encroachment ...
... kind upon the premises . The Swedes did not suffer tamely this mena- cing movement of the Nederlanders ; on the con- trary Jan Printz , at that time governor of New Sweden , issued a sturdy protest against what he termed an encroachment ...
Pagina 84
... kind of hanger on to the garrison ; who seemed to belong to no body , and in a manner to be self out- lawed . One of ... kind , whose life is a kind of enigma , whose ex- istence is without motive , who comes from the Lord knows where ...
... kind of hanger on to the garrison ; who seemed to belong to no body , and in a manner to be self out- lawed . One of ... kind , whose life is a kind of enigma , whose ex- istence is without motive , who comes from the Lord knows where ...
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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!