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 PuslishedG.P. Putnam, 1860 - 472 pagina's |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Amphictyons Amsterdam ancient Antony the Trumpeter Antony Van Corlear arms battle behold bosom breeches burghers burgomasters called Casimir CHAPTER cocked commander Communipaw Connecticut descendants divers doubt Dutch earth enemy expedition eyes fair Fort Casimir Fort Christina fortress gallant garrison Gibbet Island Goed Hoop grand council hand head heart heaven hero High Mightinesses historian honest honor Hudson huge Indian inhabitants island kind Knickerbocker Kortlandt land Manetho Manhattoes Manna-hata Merryland moss-troopers Mynheer neighbors Netherlands never Nicholas Nieuw Nederlands nose Oloffe the Dreamer oyster patroon Pavonia perils Peter Stuyvesant Peter the Headstrong philosophers pipe Poffenburgh possession potent present province readers reign renowned Risingh river sage savages shores smoke sound sturdy Swedes sword thing tion took tranquillity true trumpet turned valiant valor voyage Vrouw warlike warriors whole William Kieft William the Testy words worthy Wouter Van Twiller Yankees yore York
Populaire passages
Pagina 413 - You know it was said he carried the sword in one hand, and the olive branch in the other...
Pagina 148 - 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. By the first, many a...
Pagina 152 - ... not only the first, but also the best, governor that ever 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 punishment — a most indubitable sign of a merciful governor, and a case unparalleled, excepting in the reign of the illustrious King Log, from whom, it is hinted, the renowned Van Twiller was a lineal descendant.
Pagina 379 - Stuy vesant, bearing the great beaver of the Manhattoes. And now commenced the horrid din, the desperate struggle, the maddening ferocity, the frantic desperation, the confusion and self-abandonment of war. Dutchman and Swede commingled, tugged, panted, and blowed. The heavens were darkened with a tempest of missives.
Pagina 149 - ... if a joke were uttered in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire into the matter, and when, after much explanation, the joke was made as plain as a pike-staff; he would continue to smoke his pipe in silence, and at length, knocking out the ashes would exclaim, " Well! I see nothing in all that to laugh about.
Pagina 150 - Van Twiller — a true philosopher, for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and perplexities of this world. He had lived in it for years, without feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he had...
Pagina 170 - Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages. 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...
Pagina 171 - Vrouw, to any question that was asked them ; behaving in all things like decent, well-educated damsels. As to the gentlemen, each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe, and seemed lost in contemplation of the blue and white tiles with which the fireplaces were decorated ; wherein sundry passages of Scripture were piously...
Pagina 172 - Containing further Particulars of the Golden Age, and what constituted a fine Lady and Gentleman in the Days of Walter the Doubter. IN this dulcet period of my history, when the beauteous island of Manna-hata presented a scene, the very counterpart of those glowing pictures drawn of the golden reign of Saturn, there was, as I have before observed, a happy ignorance, an honest simplicity prevalent among its inhabitants...
Pagina 151 - Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws. Instead of a sceptre he swayed a long 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.