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 Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be PublishedG.P. Putnam and Son, 661 Broadway, 1868 - 528页 |
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... philosophers caused there- by , and the discovery of America . - CHAP . IV . Showing the great difficulty philosophers have had in peopling America - and how the Abo- rigines came to be begotten by accident - to the great relief and ...
... philosophers caused there- by , and the discovery of America . - CHAP . IV . Showing the great difficulty philosophers have had in peopling America - and how the Abo- rigines came to be begotten by accident - to the great relief and ...
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... philosophers who have entertained very different opinions ; some , too , of them entitled to much deference from their great antiquity and illustrious character . Thus it was advanced by some of the ancient sages , that the earth was an ...
... philosophers who have entertained very different opinions ; some , too , of them entitled to much deference from their great antiquity and illustrious character . Thus it was advanced by some of the ancient sages , that the earth was an ...
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... philosophers concerning the earth , and we find that the learned have had equal perplexity as to the nature of the sun . Some of the ancient philosophers have affirmed that it is a vast wheel of brilliant fire ; 1 others , that it is ...
... philosophers concerning the earth , and we find that the learned have had equal perplexity as to the nature of the sun . Some of the ancient philosophers have affirmed that it is a vast wheel of brilliant fire ; 1 others , that it is ...
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... philosopher of antiquity . In addition to these various speculations , it was the opinion of Herschel , that the sun ... philosophers touching the form of this globe , but content our- selves with the theory advanced in the begin- ning ...
... philosopher of antiquity . In addition to these various speculations , it was the opinion of Herschel , that the sun ... philosophers touching the form of this globe , but content our- selves with the theory advanced in the begin- ning ...
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... philosopher , that nature often refuses to second his most profound and elaborate efforts ; so that after having in- vented one of the most ingenious and natural theories imaginable , she will have the perverse- ness to act directly in ...
... philosopher , that nature often refuses to second his most profound and elaborate efforts ; so that after having in- vented one of the most ingenious and natural theories imaginable , she will have the perverse- ness to act directly in ...
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第175页 - ... half a century, the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling, without once troubling his head with any of those numerous theories by which a philosopher would have perplexed his brain, in accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere. "In his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague...
第193页 - The sage council, as has been mentioned in a preceding chapter, not being able to determine upon any plan for the building of their city, — the cows, in a laudable fit of patriotism, took it under their peculiar charge, and, as they went to and from pasture, established paths through the bushes, on each side of which the good folks built their houses, — which is one cause of the rambling and picturesque turns and labyrinths which distinguish certain streets of New York at this very day.
第177页 - ... presided over this ancient and respectable province ; and so tranquil and benevolent was his reign, that I do not find throughout the whole of it, a single instance of any offender being brought to...
第108页 - Our master and his mate determined to try some of the chiefe men of the countrey, whether they had any treacherie in them. So they tooke them downe into the cabin and gave them so much wine and aqua...
第177页 - Alraschid among the true believers. The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts written in a language and character that would have puzzled any but a High Dutch commentator or a learned decipherer of Egyptian obelisks.
第196页 - The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole family, old and young, master and servant, black and white, nay, even the very cat and dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a right to a corner.
第174页 - His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom ; which was wisely ordered by Providence, seeing that he was a man of sedentary habits, and very averse to the idle labor of walking.
第172页 - There are two opposite ways by which some men make a figure in the world : one, by talking faster than they think, and the other, by holding their tongues and not thinking at all.
第177页 - The very outset of the career of this excellent magistrate was distinguished by an example of legal acumen, that gave flattering presage of a wise and equitable administration. The...
第355页 - 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, Each cow, each horse, and each hog: For fear they did flee, for they took him to be Some strange outlandish hedge-hog.