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, Volum 2Inskeep & Bradford, 1809 |
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... carried every hog into captivity , and de- populated every hen roost , on the face of the earth with perfect impunity - But this wanton , wicked and unparalleled attack , upon one of the most gallant and irreproachable heroes of modern ...
... carried every hog into captivity , and de- populated every hen roost , on the face of the earth with perfect impunity - But this wanton , wicked and unparalleled attack , upon one of the most gallant and irreproachable heroes of modern ...
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... carried their perverseness so far , as to expire under the torture , protesting their innocence to the last ; but these were looked upon as thoroughly and absolutely possessed , and governed by the devil , and the pious bye - standers ...
... carried their perverseness so far , as to expire under the torture , protesting their innocence to the last ; but these were looked upon as thoroughly and absolutely possessed , and governed by the devil , and the pious bye - standers ...
Side 66
... flagitiously de- serted from all earthly command , with his beloved locks unviolated . His obstinacy remained unsha- ken to the very last moment , when he directed that he should be carried to his grave with his eel 66 HISTORY OF.
... flagitiously de- serted from all earthly command , with his beloved locks unviolated . His obstinacy remained unsha- ken to the very last moment , when he directed that he should be carried to his grave with his eel 66 HISTORY OF.
Side 67
... carried to his grave with his eel - skin queue sticking out of a knot hole in his coffin . This magnanimous affair obtained the general great credit as an excellent disciplinarian , but it is hinted that he was ever after subject to bad ...
... carried to his grave with his eel - skin queue sticking out of a knot hole in his coffin . This magnanimous affair obtained the general great credit as an excellent disciplinarian , but it is hinted that he was ever after subject to bad ...
Side 73
... carrying his resolution into effect ; and here I must do him the justice to say , that he ex- hibited a humanity rarely to be met with among leaders ; and which I have never seen equalled in modern times , excepting among the English ...
... carrying his resolution into effect ; and here I must do him the justice to say , that he ex- hibited a humanity rarely to be met with among leaders ; and which I have never seen equalled in modern times , excepting among the English ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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!