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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... keep it in better order than did the erudite Kieft , though he had all the philosophers ancient and modern , to assist and perplex him . I must likewise own that he made but very few - laws , but then again he took care that See the ...
... keep it in better order than did the erudite Kieft , though he had all the philosophers ancient and modern , to assist and perplex him . I must likewise own that he made but very few - laws , but then again he took care that See the ...
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... keep going continually , and continually be going wrong . Nor did this magnanimous virtue escape the discernment of the good people of Nieuw Neder- lants ; on the contrary so high an opinion had they of the independent mind and vigorous ...
... keep going continually , and continually be going wrong . Nor did this magnanimous virtue escape the discernment of the good people of Nieuw Neder- lants ; on the contrary so high an opinion had they of the independent mind and vigorous ...
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... keeping alive a noble and martial spirit . Many other alterations and reformations , both for the better and for the worse , did the governor make , of which my time will not serve me to re- cord the particulars , suffice it to say , he ...
... keeping alive a noble and martial spirit . Many other alterations and reformations , both for the better and for the worse , did the governor make , of which my time will not serve me to re- cord the particulars , suffice it to say , he ...
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... keep them continually in hot water . How many 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 ...
... keep them continually in hot water . How many 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 ...
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... keep up a constant negociation with its neighbours , it is the utmost summit of folly , for it ever to be beguiled into a treaty ; for then comes on the non - fulfilment and infraction , then remonstrance , then altercation , then ...
... keep up a constant negociation with its neighbours , it is the utmost summit of folly , for it ever to be beguiled into a treaty ; for then comes on the non - fulfilment and infraction , then remonstrance , then altercation , then ...
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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!