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 26
... gallant speeches , soft looks and endearing caresses , but the marriage ceremony is the signal for hostilities - and thus ends this very abstruse though very instructive chapter . CHAP . IV . How Peter Stuyvesant was horribly belied 26 ...
... gallant speeches , soft looks and endearing caresses , but the marriage ceremony is the signal for hostilities - and thus ends this very abstruse though very instructive chapter . CHAP . IV . How Peter Stuyvesant was horribly belied 26 ...
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... gallant and irreproachable heroes of modern times , is too much even for me to digest , and has overset , with a single puff , the patience of the historian and the forbearance of the Dutchman . Oh reader it was false ! -I swear to thee ...
... gallant and irreproachable heroes of modern times , is too much even for me to digest , and has overset , with a single puff , the patience of the historian and the forbearance of the Dutchman . Oh reader it was false ! -I swear to thee ...
Side 39
... gallant train bands made marvellous proficiency in the mystery of gun- powder . They were taught to face to the right , to wheel to the left , to snap off empty firelocks with- out winking , to turn a corner without any great up- roar ...
... gallant train bands made marvellous proficiency in the mystery of gun- powder . They were taught to face to the right , to wheel to the left , to snap off empty firelocks with- out winking , to turn a corner without any great up- roar ...
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... gallant Peter took a hear- ty pinch of snuff , and snapping his fingers , set the great council of Amphyctions , aud their champion , the doughty Alicxsander Partridg at defiance . It is impossible to say , notwithstanding , what might ...
... gallant Peter took a hear- ty pinch of snuff , and snapping his fingers , set the great council of Amphyctions , aud their champion , the doughty Alicxsander Partridg at defiance . It is impossible to say , notwithstanding , what might ...
Side 49
... gallant spirit of the brave old Peter , and convinced by the chivalric frankness and heroic warmth of his vindication , they refused to believe him guilty of the infamous plot most wrongfully laid at his door . With a generosity for ...
... gallant spirit of the brave old Peter , and convinced by the chivalric frankness and heroic warmth of his vindication , they refused to believe him guilty of the infamous plot most wrongfully laid at his door . With a generosity for ...
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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!