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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... worthy hero that ever desolated nations , might have mouldered into oblivion among the rubbish of his own monument , did not some kind historian take him into favour , and benevolently transmit his name to posterity- and much as the ...
... worthy hero that ever desolated nations , might have mouldered into oblivion among the rubbish of his own monument , did not some kind historian take him into favour , and benevolently transmit his name to posterity- and much as the ...
Pagina 8
... worthy reader , that Peter Stuyvesant was a tough , sturdy , valiant , weatherbeaten , mettlesome , leath- ernsided , lion hearted , generous spirited , obstinate , old " seventy six " of a governor , thou art a very numscull at drawing ...
... worthy reader , that Peter Stuyvesant was a tough , sturdy , valiant , weatherbeaten , mettlesome , leath- ernsided , lion hearted , generous spirited , obstinate , old " seventy six " of a governor , thou art a very numscull at drawing ...
Pagina 17
... worthy , but simple reader , is doubtless , like the great and good Peter , congratu- lating himself with the idea , that his feelings will no longer be molested by afflicting details of stolen horses , broken heads , impounded hogs ...
... worthy , but simple reader , is doubtless , like the great and good Peter , congratu- lating himself with the idea , that his feelings will no longer be molested by afflicting details of stolen horses , broken heads , impounded hogs ...
Pagina 25
... worthy country neighbours have I known , who after living in peace and good fellowship for years , have been thrown into a state of distrust , cavilling and ani- mosity , by some ill starred agreement about fences , runs of water , and ...
... worthy country neighbours have I known , who after living in peace and good fellowship for years , have been thrown into a state of distrust , cavilling and ani- mosity , by some ill starred agreement about fences , runs of water , and ...
Pagina 28
... worthy to be recorded in his sacred page . The reader is therefore to take it for granted , though I scorn to waste in the detail , that time , which my furrowed brow and trembling hand , in- form me is invaluable , that all the while ...
... worthy to be recorded in his sacred page . The reader is therefore to take it for granted , though I scorn to waste in the detail , that time , which my furrowed brow and trembling hand , in- form me is invaluable , that all the while ...
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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!