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... appearance of my work the popular traditions of our city were unrecorded ; the peculiar and racy customs and usages derived from our Dutch progenitors were unnoticed , or regarded with indifference , or adverted to with a sneer . Now ...
... appearance of my work the popular traditions of our city were unrecorded ; the peculiar and racy customs and usages derived from our Dutch progenitors were unnoticed , or regarded with indifference , or adverted to with a sneer . Now ...
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... appearance was something out of the common run ; and my wife , who is a very shrewd body , at once set him down for some eminent country schoolmaster . As the Independent Columbian Hotel is a very small house , I was a little puzzled at ...
... appearance was something out of the common run ; and my wife , who is a very shrewd body , at once set him down for some eminent country schoolmaster . As the Independent Columbian Hotel is a very small house , I was a little puzzled at ...
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... seen the numerous advertise- ments that were made concerning him ; and that he should learn of the publication of his history by mere accident . He expressed much concern at its premature appearance , as ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR . 17.
... seen the numerous advertise- ments that were made concerning him ; and that he should learn of the publication of his history by mere accident . He expressed much concern at its premature appearance , as ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR . 17.
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Washington Irving. He expressed much concern at its premature appearance , as thereby he was prevented from making several important cor- rections and alterations : as well as from profiting by many curious hints which he had collected ...
Washington Irving. He expressed much concern at its premature appearance , as thereby he was prevented from making several important cor- rections and alterations : as well as from profiting by many curious hints which he had collected ...
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... appearance , and were comprehended under the general title of Nieuw Nederlandts , on account , as the sage Vander Donck observes , of their great resemblance to the Dutch Netherlands - which indeed was truly remarkable , except- ing ...
... appearance , and were comprehended under the general title of Nieuw Nederlandts , on account , as the sage Vander Donck observes , of their great resemblance to the Dutch Netherlands - which indeed was truly remarkable , except- ing ...
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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.