A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty ...M. Thomas, 1819 - 296 Seiten |
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... question to his friend , the libra- rian , who replied in his dry way that he was one of the literati , which she supposed to mean some new party in politics . I scorn to push a lodger for his pay , so I let day after day pass on with ...
... question to his friend , the libra- rian , who replied in his dry way that he was one of the literati , which she supposed to mean some new party in politics . I scorn to push a lodger for his pay , so I let day after day pass on with ...
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... question which most so- cratically shuts out all further dispute . Laying aside , therefore , all the conjectures above mentioned , with a multitude of others , equally satisfactory , I shall take for granted , the vulgar opinion , that ...
... question which most so- cratically shuts out all further dispute . Laying aside , therefore , all the conjectures above mentioned , with a multitude of others , equally satisfactory , I shall take for granted , the vulgar opinion , that ...
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... questions to resolve , and paradoxes to ex- plain , before I permit you to range at random ; but these difficulties , once overcome , we shall be en- abled to jog on right merrily through the rest of our history . Thus my work shall ...
... questions to resolve , and paradoxes to ex- plain , before I permit you to range at random ; but these difficulties , once overcome , we shall be en- abled to jog on right merrily through the rest of our history . Thus my work shall ...
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... question , so important to the happiness of society , but so involved in clouds of impene- trable obscurity . Historian after historian has engaged in the endless circle of hypothetical ar- gument , and after leading us a weary chase ...
... question , so important to the happiness of society , but so involved in clouds of impene- trable obscurity . Historian after historian has engaged in the endless circle of hypothetical ar- gument , and after leading us a weary chase ...
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... as it may not be thought much to their credit by the com- mon run of readers , the less we say on the subject the better . The question therefore , I trust , is for ever at rest . ( CHAPTER V. --- In which the Author puts a 64 HISTORY OF.
... as it may not be thought much to their credit by the com- mon run of readers , the less we say on the subject the better . The question therefore , I trust , is for ever at rest . ( CHAPTER V. --- In which the Author puts a 64 HISTORY OF.
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Seite iv - ilKHntt.v, uf the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the word* following, to wit: A History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the end of the Dutch Dynasty.
Seite 160 - 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.
Seite 180 - ... and loyal citizens, however, always went according to the weathercock on the top of the governor's house, which was certainly the most correct, as he had a trusty servant employed every morning to climb up and set it to the right quarter.
Seite 188 - ... and what is still more praiseworthy, they were all of their own manufacture — of which circumstance, as may well be supposed, they were not a little vain. These were the honest days, in which every woman staid at home, read the 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...
Seite 158 - 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.
Seite 154 - ... of the meadows — all which happy coincidence persuaded the old dames of New Amsterdam, who were skilled in the art of foretelling events, that this was to be a happy and prosperous administration.
Seite 185 - 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 woolen stockings,...
Seite 182 - ... the mistress and her confidential maid, who visited it once a week, for the purpose of giving it a thorough cleaning, and putting things to rights— always taking the precaution of leaving their shoes at the door, and entering devoutly on their stocking feet.
Seite 160 - 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, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws.
Seite 184 - To sweeten the beverage, a lump of 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...