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 PublishedMurray, 1820 - Počet stran: 520 |
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Amphyctions Amsterdam ancestors ancient Anthony's Nose arms battle breeches burghers burgomasters called Casimir CHAPTER Charondas city of New-Amsterdam colony commander Communipaw Connecticut Curlet descendants divers doubt Dutch earth enemy eyes fair favourite Fort Amsterdam Fort Casimir Fort Christina gallant garrison Gibbet Island grand council hand head heart heaven heroes historian honest honour Hudson huge illustrious important Indians inhabitants island Kortlandt land linsey-woolsey Manetho Manhattoes manner ment mighty moss-troopers Mynher nation neighbours never New-Amsterdam New-Netherlands Nicholas Nieuw-Nederlandts old governor Oloffe perils Peter Stuyvesant philosophers pipe Poffenburgh present prodigious profound province readers reign renowned Risingh river sage savages schepens settlement shores smoke sound sturdy Swedes sword thing tion took Tough Breeches town tranquillity true trumpet trusty turn valiant voyage Vrouw warriors whole Wilhelmus Kieft William Kieft William the Testy wise word worthy Wouter Van Twiller Yankees yore
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Strana 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.
Strana 157 - 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.
Strana 155 - 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.
Strana 182 - 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.
Strana 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!
Strana 188 - Thus equipped, he would manfully sally forth with pipe in mouth to besiege some fair damsel's obdurate heart — not such a pipe, good reader, as that which Acis did sweetly tune in praise of his Galatea, but one of true delft manufacture and furnished with a charge of fragrant Cow-pen tobacco.
Strana 177 - The houses of the higher class were generally constructed of wood, excepting the gable end which was of small black and yellow Dutch bricks, and always faced on the street, as our ancestors, like their descendants, were very much given to outward show, and were noted for putting the best leg foremost.
Strana 158 - ... 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.
Strana 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 of giving belief,) that he saw the duyvel, in the shape of a huge moss-bonker, seize the sturdy Anthony by the leg, and drag him beneath the waves.
Strana 159 - 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 morning after he had been installed in...