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 PublishedJ. Wylie & Company, 1821 - 372页 |
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... carried under his arm . His whole appearance was something out of the common run ; and my wife , who is a very shrewd body , at once set him down for some eminent country schoolmaster . As the Independent Columbian Hotel is a very small ...
... carried under his arm . His whole appearance was something out of the common run ; and my wife , who is a very shrewd body , at once set him down for some eminent country schoolmaster . As the Independent Columbian Hotel is a very small ...
第14页
... carrying the sun a regular supply of food and fagots ; a third , of more combustible disposition , threatens to throw his comet , like a bombshell into the world , and blow it up like a powder magazine ; while a fourth , with no great ...
... carrying the sun a regular supply of food and fagots ; a third , of more combustible disposition , threatens to throw his comet , like a bombshell into the world , and blow it up like a powder magazine ; while a fourth , with no great ...
第39页
... carry them to court , as were the Indian chiefs led about as spectacles in the courts of Europe . Then making such obeisance as the etiquette of the court requires , they shall address the puissant man in the moon , in , as near as I ...
... carry them to court , as were the Indian chiefs led about as spectacles in the courts of Europe . Then making such obeisance as the etiquette of the court requires , they shall address the puissant man in the moon , in , as near as I ...
第40页
... carry their heads upon their shoulders , instead of under their arms - have two eyes instead of one — are ut- terly destitute of tails , and of a variety of unseemly com- plexions , particularly of a horrible whiteness , instead of pea ...
... carry their heads upon their shoulders , instead of under their arms - have two eyes instead of one — are ut- terly destitute of tails , and of a variety of unseemly com- plexions , particularly of a horrible whiteness , instead of pea ...
第41页
... carry their heads on their shoulders instead of under their arms - cannot talk the lu- natic language - have two eyes instead of one - are desti- tute of tails , and of a horrible whiteness , instead of pea- green ; therefore , and for ...
... carry their heads on their shoulders instead of under their arms - cannot talk the lu- natic language - have two eyes instead of one - are desti- tute of tails , and of a horrible whiteness , instead of pea- green ; therefore , and for ...
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Amphyctions Amsterdam ancestors ancient Anthony Van Corlear arms battle breeches burghers burgomasters called CHAPTER city of New-Amsterdam colony commander Communipaw Connecticut coun 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 heaven heroes historian honest honour Hudson huge illustrious immortal Indians ingenious inhabitants island King Arthur land learned likewise Manetho Manhattoes manner ment mighty mind Moss-troopers Mynheer nation neighbours Netherlands never New-York Nicholas Nieuw Nederlandts old governor Oloffe pericranium perilous Peter Stuyvesant Peter the Headstrong philosophers pipe Poffenburgh present privy counsellors profound province readers reign renowned Wouter Risingh river sage savages settlement shores smoke sound sturdy Swedes sword thing tion took tranquillity trumpet turn valiant voyage Vrouw warriors whole Wilhelmus William Kieft William the Testy word worthy Wouter Van Twiller Yankees yore
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第94页 - ... of a man of quick parts; by the other many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom.
第115页 - ... sugar was laid beside each cup — and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the...
第99页 - ... 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, not only because I deem it one of the most sage and righteous judgments on record, and well worthy the attention of modern magistrates ; but because it was a miraculous event in the history of the renowned Wouter — being the only...
第96页 - Nay, it has even been said, that when any deliberation of extraordinary length and intricacy was on the carpet, the renowned Wouter would shut his eyes for full two hours at a time, that he might not be disturbed by external objects — and at such times the internal commotion of his mind was evinced by certain regular guttural sounds, which his admirers declared were merely the noise of conflict, made by his contending doubts and opinions.
第117页 - Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such things as they wished to have at hand; by which means they often came to be incredibly crammed — and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy that the lady of...
第116页 - The gentlemen gallantly attended their fair ones to their respective abodes, and took leave of them with a hearty smack at the door: which, as it was an established piece of etiquette, done in perfect simplicity and honesty of heart, occasioned no scandal at that time, nor should it at the present — if our great grandfathers approved of the custom, it would argue a great want of reverence in their descendants to say a word against it.
第237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.
第95页 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders. His...
第114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, unless it was in winter time, when the fashionable hours were a little earlier, that the ladies might get home before dark.
第95页 - Two small gray eyes twinkled feebly in the midst, like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament ; and his full-fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of every thing that went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusky red, like a spitzenberg apple.