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... Swedes in the south , who had landed on the banks of the Delaware and displayed the banner of that redoubtable virago Queen Christina , and taken possession of the country in her name . These had been guided in their expedition by one ...
... Swedes in the south , who had landed on the banks of the Delaware and displayed the banner of that redoubtable virago Queen Christina , and taken possession of the country in her name . These had been guided in their expedition by one ...
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... Swedes in the longest speech that had been heard in the colony since the wordy warfare of Ten Breeches and Tough Breeches . Having thus taken off the fire - edge of his valor , he resorted to his favorite measure of proclamation , and ...
... Swedes in the longest speech that had been heard in the colony since the wordy warfare of Ten Breeches and Tough Breeches . Having thus taken off the fire - edge of his valor , he resorted to his favorite measure of proclamation , and ...
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... Swedes had become very troublesome in this quarter in the latter part of the reign of William the Testy , setting at naught the proclamations of that veritable potentate , and putting his admiral , the intrepid Jan Jansen Alpendam , to ...
... Swedes had become very troublesome in this quarter in the latter part of the reign of William the Testy , setting at naught the proclamations of that veritable potentate , and putting his admiral , the intrepid Jan Jansen Alpendam , to ...
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... Swedes , and if , perchance , he espied a colony of big - bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun , " ah ! caitiff Yankees ! " would he roar , " have I caught ye at last ? " So saying , with one sweep of his sword , he would cleave ...
... Swedes , and if , perchance , he espied a colony of big - bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun , " ah ! caitiff Yankees ! " would he roar , " have I caught ye at last ? " So saying , with one sweep of his sword , he would cleave ...
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... Swede , he was a rival worthy of the windy and inflated commander of Fort Casimir , for mas- ter David Pieterzen de Vrie , in his excellent book of voyages , describes him as " weighing upwards of four hundred pounds , " a huge feeder ...
... Swede , he was a rival worthy of the windy and inflated commander of Fort Casimir , for mas- ter David Pieterzen de Vrie , in his excellent book of voyages , describes him as " weighing upwards of four hundred pounds , " a huge feeder ...
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Página 160 - The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole family, old and young, master and servant, black and white, nay, even the very cat and dog enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a prescriptive right to a corner.
Página 160 - The young folks would crowd around the hearth, listening with breathless attention to some old crone of a negro who was the oracle of the family, and who, perched like a raven in a corner of the chimney, would croak forth for a long winter afternoon a string of incredible stories about New England witches, grisly ghosts, horses without heads and hairbreadth escapes and bloody encounters among the Indians.
Página 141 - ROAR." lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and...
Página 202 - ... universally denominated 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,...
Página 141 - With all his reflective habits he never made up his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted for this by the astonishing magnitude of his ideas. He conceived every subject on so grand a scale that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it. Certain it is that if any matter were propounded to him on which ordinary mortals would rashly determine at first glance, he would put on a vague, mysterious look, shake his capacious head, smoke some time in profound silence, and...
Página 84 - So they tooke them downe into the cabin, and gave them so much wine and aqua vitse, 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. In the end, one of them was drunke, which had been aborde of our ship all the time that we had been there, and that was strange to them, for they could not tell how to take it.
Página 142 - ... in accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere. 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.
Página 162 - At these primitive tea-parties the utmost propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed. No flirting nor coqueting — 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...
Página 145 - ... gravity and solemnity pronounced - -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. This decision being straightway made known, diffused general joy throughout New- Amsterdam, for the...
Página xv - DISTRESSING. Left his lodgings, some time since, and has not since been heard of, a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat, by the name of J£nicker~boclcer.