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 Published, Bände 1-2J. Murray, 1820 - 520 Seiten |
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Amphyctions ancestors ancient Anthony's Nose Antony Van Corlear arms army battle breeches Bunschotens burghers burgomasters called Casimir CHAPTER Charondas city of New-Amsterdam colony commander Communipaw Connecticut divers doubt Dutch enemy eyes fair favourite Fort Amsterdam Fort Casimir Fort Christina gallant Peter garrison Gibbet Island Goed Hoop grand council hand head heart heaven heroes historian honest honour Hudson huge illustrious important Indians inhabitants island land linsey-woolsey Manetho Manhattoes manner marvellous ment mighty mind moss-troopers Mynher nation neighbours never New-Amsterdam New-Netherlands Nicholas Nieuw-Nederlandts perils Peter Stuyvesant Peter the Headstrong philosophers pipe Poffenburgh present prodigious profound province readers reign renowned Wouter Risingh sage savages smoke sound South river spirit sturdy Swedes sword thing tion took town tranquillity trumpet trusty turn valiant voyage warriors whole Wilhelmus Kieft William Kieft William the Testy wise word worthy Wouter Van Twiller Yankees yore
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Seite 154 - ... 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.
Seite 157 - Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent pipe would he smoke, shaking his right knee with a constant motion, and fixing his eye for hours together upon a little print of Amsterdam, which hung in a black frame against the opposite wall of the council-chamber.
Seite 374 - Just at this moment the illustrious sun, breaking in all his splendor from behind a high bluff of the Highlands, did dart one of his most potent beams full upon the refulgent nose of the sounder of brass — the reflection of which shot straightway down hissing hot, into the water, and killed a mighty sturgeon that was sporting beside the vessel!
Seite 182 - 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...
Seite 160 - ... that, having carefully counted over the leaves and weighed the books, it was found that one was just as thick and as heavy as the other; therefore, it was the final opinion of the court that the accounts were equally balanced: therefore, Wandle should give Barent a receipt, and Barent should give Wandle a receipt, and the constable should pay the costs.
Seite 491 - Here an old Dutch burgher, famed for his veracity, and who had been a witness of the fact, related to them the melancholy affair ; with the fearful addition (to which I am slow in giving belief) that he saw the. duyvel, in the shape of a huge moss-bonker, seize the sturdy Antony by the leg, and drag him beneath the waves.
Seite 180 - 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.
Seite 180 - The company, being seated around the genial board and each furnished with a fork, evinced their dexterity in launching at the fattest pieces in this mighty dish; in much the same manner as sailors harpoon porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon in the lakes.
Seite 177 - In those good days of simplicity and sunshine, a passion for cleanliness was the leading principle in domestic economy, and the universal test of an able housewife — a character which formed the utmost ambition of our unenlightened grandmothers. The front door was never opened except on marriages, funerals, new years
Seite 183 - I have before observed, a happy ignorance, an honest simplicity prevalent among its inhabitants, which, were I even able to depict, would be but little understood by the degenerate age for which 1 am doomed to write. Even the female sex, those arch innovators upon the tranquillity, the honesty, and gray-beard customs of society , seemed for a while to conduct themselves with incredible sobriety and comeliness.