Knickerbocker's New YorkGeorge P. Putnam, 1849 |
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... CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD . ACCORDING to the best authorities , the world in which we dwell is a huge , opaque , reflecting , inanimate mass , floating in the vast ethereal ocean of infinite space . It has the form of an ...
... CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD . ACCORDING to the best authorities , the world in which we dwell is a huge , opaque , reflecting , inanimate mass , floating in the vast ethereal ocean of infinite space . It has the form of an ...
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... since that memorable era the world has been left to take her own course , and to revolve around the sun in such orbit as she thinks proper . CHAPTER II . COSMOGONY , OR CREATION OF THE WORLD HISTORY OF NEW - YORK . 35 35.
... since that memorable era the world has been left to take her own course , and to revolve around the sun in such orbit as she thinks proper . CHAPTER II . COSMOGONY , OR CREATION OF THE WORLD HISTORY OF NEW - YORK . 35 35.
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... chapter or two , into as complete a labyrinth as ever historian was perplexed withal : therefore , I advise them to take fast hold of my skirts , and keep close at my heels , venturing neither to the right hand nor to the left , lest ...
... chapter or two , into as complete a labyrinth as ever historian was perplexed withal : therefore , I advise them to take fast hold of my skirts , and keep close at my heels , venturing neither to the right hand nor to the left , lest ...
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... chapter . Of the creation of the world , we have a thousand contradic- tory accounts ; and though a very satisfactory one is furnished us by divine revelation , yet every philosopher feels himself in honor bound to furnish us with a ...
... chapter . Of the creation of the world , we have a thousand contradic- tory accounts ; and though a very satisfactory one is furnished us by divine revelation , yet every philosopher feels himself in honor bound to furnish us with a ...
الصفحة 44
... out into continents and islands , among which I boldly declare the renowned ISLAND OF NEW- YORK will be found by any one who seeks for it in its proper place . A CHAPTER III . HOW THAT FAMOUS NAVIGATOR , NOAH 44 HISTORY OF NEW - YORK .
... out into continents and islands , among which I boldly declare the renowned ISLAND OF NEW- YORK will be found by any one who seeks for it in its proper place . A CHAPTER III . HOW THAT FAMOUS NAVIGATOR , NOAH 44 HISTORY OF NEW - YORK .
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الصفحة 396 - You know it was said he carried the sword in one hand, and the olive branch in the other; and it seems he chose to give them a taste of the sword first " He is doubling his fortifications at Boston, and hopes to secure his troops till succour arrives.
الصفحة 162 - 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...
الصفحة 159 - ... 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.
الصفحة 161 - 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.
الصفحة 160 - Dinner was invariably a private meal, and the fat old burghers showed incontestible signs of disapprobation and uneasiness at being surprised by a visit from a neighbor on such occasions. But though our worthy ancestors were thus singularly averse to giving dinners, yet they kept up the social bands of intimacy by occasional banquetings, called tea-parties.
الصفحة 140 - ... gravity that he was never known to laugh or even to smile through the whole course of a long and prosperous life. Nay, 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 pikestaff, he would continue to smoke his pipe in silence, and at length, knocking out the ashes, would exclaim, " Well !...
الصفحة 162 - ... by a string from the ceiling, so that it could be swung from mouth to mouth — an ingenious expedient which is still kept up by some families in Albany, but which prevails without exception in Communipaw, Bergen, Flatbush, and all our uncontaminated Dutch villages.
الصفحة 202 - William the Testy. His appearance answered to his name. He was a brisk, wiry, waspish little old gentleman ; such a one as may now and then be seen stumping about our city in a broad-skirted coat with huge buttons, a cocked hat stuck on the back of his head, and a cane as high as his chin. His face was broad, but his features were sharp ; his cheeks were scorched into a dusky red by two fiery little gray eyes ; his nose turned up, and the corners of his mouth turned down, pretty much like the muzzle...
الصفحة 144 - Indian pudding into his mouth — either as a sign that he relished the dish or comprehended the story — he called unto him his constable, and pulling out of his breeches pocket a huge jack-knife, dispatched it after the defendant as a summons, accompanied by his tobacco-box as a warrant. This summary process was as effectual in those simple days as was the seal-ring of the great Haroun Alraschid among the true believers. The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a...
الصفحة 84 - Cabin, and gave them so much wine and aqua vitae that they were all merrie; and one of them had his wife with him, which sate so modestly, as any of our Countrey women would do in a strange place.