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 20
... thousand devices to defend and to assault the helmet , the cuirass and the buckler ; the sword , the dart and the javelin , prepared him to elude the wound , as well as to launch the blow . Still urging on , in the brilliant and ...
... thousand devices to defend and to assault the helmet , the cuirass and the buckler ; the sword , the dart and the javelin , prepared him to elude the wound , as well as to launch the blow . Still urging on , in the brilliant and ...
Pagina 62
... thousand Grecians . All this accomplished , he established on the South ( or Delaware ) river , a redoubtable redoubt , named FORT CASIMER , in honour of a favourite pair of brimstone coloured trunk breeches of the go- vernor's . As ...
... thousand Grecians . All this accomplished , he established on the South ( or Delaware ) river , a redoubtable redoubt , named FORT CASIMER , in honour of a favourite pair of brimstone coloured trunk breeches of the go- vernor's . As ...
Pagina 79
... thousand cabbages , one thousand bushels of potatoes , one hundred and fifty kilderkins of small beer , two thousand seven hundred and thirty five pipes , seventy eight pounds of sugar - plumbs , and forty bars of iron , besides sundry ...
... thousand cabbages , one thousand bushels of potatoes , one hundred and fifty kilderkins of small beer , two thousand seven hundred and thirty five pipes , seventy eight pounds of sugar - plumbs , and forty bars of iron , besides sundry ...
Pagina 96
... thousand dewy gems ; while along the borders of the river were seen heavy masses of mist , which like midnight caitiffs , dis- turbed at his approach , made a sluggish retreat , rolling in sullen reluctance up the mountains . At such ...
... thousand dewy gems ; while along the borders of the river were seen heavy masses of mist , which like midnight caitiffs , dis- turbed at his approach , made a sluggish retreat , rolling in sullen reluctance up the mountains . At such ...
Pagina 97
... thousand shadowy beings . Now broke forth from the shores the notes of an innumerable variety of insects , who filled the air with a strange but not inharmonious concert →→ while ever and anon was heard the melancholy plaint of the ...
... thousand shadowy beings . Now broke forth from the shores the notes of an innumerable variety of insects , who filled the air with a strange but not inharmonious concert →→ while ever and anon was heard the melancholy plaint of the ...
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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!