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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Side 12
... eyes of the women by means of his whiskers and his trumpet . Him did Peter the Headstrong , cause to be brought into his presence , and eyeing him for a moment from head to foot , with a countenance that would have appall- ed any thing ...
... eyes of the women by means of his whiskers and his trumpet . Him did Peter the Headstrong , cause to be brought into his presence , and eyeing him for a moment from head to foot , with a countenance that would have appall- ed any thing ...
Side 13
... eyes more kindly therefore , upon the sturdy Van Corlear , and finding him to be a jolly , fat little man , shrewd in his discourse , yet of great dis- cretion and immeasurable wind , he straightway conceived an astonishing kindness for ...
... eyes more kindly therefore , upon the sturdy Van Corlear , and finding him to be a jolly , fat little man , shrewd in his discourse , yet of great dis- cretion and immeasurable wind , he straightway conceived an astonishing kindness for ...
Side 29
... received a pair of black eyes and a bloody nose , in one of these border wars ; and my grandfather , when a very little boy tending the pigs , having been kid napped and severely flogged by a long sided Con necticut NEW YORK . 29.
... received a pair of black eyes and a bloody nose , in one of these border wars ; and my grandfather , when a very little boy tending the pigs , having been kid napped and severely flogged by a long sided Con necticut NEW YORK . 29.
Side 31
... a little , grey headed Dutchman , arrived almost at the bottom of the down - hill of life , I still retain some portion of that celestial fire , which sparkles in the eye of youth , when contemplating the NEW YORK . 31.
... a little , grey headed Dutchman , arrived almost at the bottom of the down - hill of life , I still retain some portion of that celestial fire , which sparkles in the eye of youth , when contemplating the NEW YORK . 31.
Side 32
... eye of youth , when contemplating the virtues and atchievements of ancient worthies . Blessed , thrice and nine times blessed , be the good St. Nicholas - that I have escaped the influence of that chilling apathy , which too often ...
... eye of youth , when contemplating the virtues and atchievements of ancient worthies . Blessed , thrice and nine times blessed , be the good St. Nicholas - that I have escaped the influence of that chilling apathy , which too often ...
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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!