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 Times that Hath Ever Been Published, 第 1-2 卷C.S. Van Winkle, 1824 |
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... ancient village of Communipaw • 113 . 104 CHAP . III . In which is set forth the true art of making a bargain - together with the miraculous escape of a great Metropolis in a fog - and the biography of cer- tain heroes of Communipaw ...
... ancient village of Communipaw • 113 . 104 CHAP . III . In which is set forth the true art of making a bargain - together with the miraculous escape of a great Metropolis in a fog - and the biography of cer- tain heroes of Communipaw ...
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... ancient historians . Like Zenophon , I have maintained the utmost impartiality , and the strictest adherence to truth throughout my history . I have enriched it after the manner of Sallust , with various characters of ancient wor thies ...
... ancient historians . Like Zenophon , I have maintained the utmost impartiality , and the strictest adherence to truth throughout my history . I have enriched it after the manner of Sallust , with various characters of ancient wor thies ...
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... ancient cities , will happen again , and from the same sad cause , to nine - tenths of those which now flourish on the face of the globe . With most of them the time for recording their early history is gone by ; their origin , their ...
... ancient cities , will happen again , and from the same sad cause , to nine - tenths of those which now flourish on the face of the globe . With most of them the time for recording their early history is gone by ; their origin , their ...
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... ancient sages , that the earth was an extended plain , supported by vast pillars ; and by others , that it rested on the head of a snake , or the back of a huge tortoise -- but as they did not provide a resting place for either the ...
... ancient sages , that the earth was an extended plain , supported by vast pillars ; and by others , that it rested on the head of a snake , or the back of a huge tortoise -- but as they did not provide a resting place for either the ...
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... ancient philosophers have affirmed that it is a vast wheel of brilliant fire ; * others that it is merely a mirror or sphere of transparent crystal ; and a third class , at the head of whom stands Anaxagoras , maintained that it was ...
... ancient philosophers have affirmed that it is a vast wheel of brilliant fire ; * others that it is merely a mirror or sphere of transparent crystal ; and a third class , at the head of whom stands Anaxagoras , maintained that it was ...
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Amphyctions Amsterdam ancient Antony Van Corlear arms battle breeches burghers burgomasters called CHAPTER city of New-Amsterdam cocked colony commander Communipaw Connecticut Curlet descendants divers doubt Dutch earth enemy eyes fair fort Amsterdam Fort Casimir Fort Christina gallant garrison Gibbet Island Goed Hoop grand council hand head heart heroes historian honest honour Hudson huge illustrious immortal Indians ingenious inhabitants island Kortlandt land Manetho Manhattoes manner ment mighty nation neighbours never New-Netherlands New-York Nicholas Nieuw-Nederlandts old governor Oloffe Oyster Bay perils Peter Stuyvesant Peter the Headstrong philosophers pipe Poffenburgh present privy counsellors prodigious profound province readers reign Risingh river sage savages settlement smoke sound spirit sturdy Swedes sword thing tion took town tranquillity trumpet turn valiant voyage warriors whole Wilhelmus Wilhelmus Kieft William Kieft William the Testy wise words worthy Wouter Van Twiller Yankees yore
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第4页 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
第168页 - This decision being straightway made known, diffused general joy throughout New Amsterdam, for the people immediately perceived, that they had a very wise and equitable magistrate to rule over them. But its happiest effect was, that not another lawsuit took place throughout the whole of his administration — and the office of constable fell into such decay, that there was not one of those losel scouts known in the province for many years. I am the more particular in dwelling on this transaction,...
第187页 - These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse, that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six...
第164页 - His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly an hour to each ; he smoked and doubted eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four-and-twenty.
第167页 - ... bitterly of one Barent Bleecker, inasmuch as he refused to come to a settlement of accounts, seeing that there was a heavy balance in favor of the said Wandle. Governor Van Twiller, as I have already observed, was a man of few words ; he was likewise a mortal enemy to multiplying writings — or being disturbed at his breakfast.
第189页 - At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coquetting, — no gambling of old ladies, nor hoyden chattering and romping of young ones, — no self-satisfied struttings of wealthy gentlemen, with their brains in their pockets, nor amusing conceits and monkey divertisements of smart young gentlemen with no brains at all. On the contrary, the young ladies seated themselves demurely in their rush-bottomed chairs, and knit their own woollen...
第162页 - This, by the way, is a casual remark, which I would not, for the universe, have it thought I apply to Governor Van Twiller.
第190页 - The parties broke up without noise and without confusion. They were carried home by their own carriages, that is to say, by the vehicles nature had provided them, excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wagon. The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door...
第185页 - ... worn out by the very precautions taken for its preservation. The whole house was constantly in a state of inundation...
第149页 - Rippers and the Van Brunts, bearing down all before them; then the Suy Dams, and the Van Dams, pressing forward with many a blustering oath, at the head of the warriors of Hell-gate, clad in their thunder-and-lightning gaberdines; and lastly, the standard-bearers and body-guard of Peter Stuyvesant, bearing the great beaver of the Manhattoes.