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... Commander , showing that a man , like a bladder , may be puffed up to greatness by mere wind ; together with the catastrophe of a veteran and his queue . 301 . BOOK VI . · 295 CONTAINING THE SECOND PART OF THE REIGN OF PETER THE ...
... Commander , showing that a man , like a bladder , may be puffed up to greatness by mere wind ; together with the catastrophe of a veteran and his queue . 301 . BOOK VI . · 295 CONTAINING THE SECOND PART OF THE REIGN OF PETER THE ...
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... commander , to honor and immortality . Such are the vainglorious imaginings that will now and then enter into the brain of the author - that irradiate , as with celestial light , his solitary chamber , cheering his weary spirits , and ...
... commander , to honor and immortality . Such are the vainglorious imaginings that will now and then enter into the brain of the author - that irradiate , as with celestial light , his solitary chamber , cheering his weary spirits , and ...
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... commander and his crew were overpowered by the horror of the scene , and the strangeness of the revolution . How the gallant squadron of Pavonia was snatched from the jaws of this modern Charybdis , has never been truly made known , for ...
... commander and his crew were overpowered by the horror of the scene , and the strangeness of the revolution . How the gallant squadron of Pavonia was snatched from the jaws of this modern Charybdis , has never been truly made known , for ...
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... commander gave this pass the name of Helle - gat , or as it has been interpreted , Hell- Gate ; * which it continues to bear at the present day . * This is a narrow strait in the Sound , at the distance of six miles above New - York ...
... commander gave this pass the name of Helle - gat , or as it has been interpreted , Hell- Gate ; * which it continues to bear at the present day . * This is a narrow strait in the Sound , at the distance of six miles above New - York ...
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... commander , the Yan- kees continued the interlopings hinted at in my last chapter , and at length had the audacity to squat themselves down within the jurisdiction of Fort Goed Hoop . The long - bodied Van Curlet protested with great ...
... commander , the Yan- kees continued the interlopings hinted at in my last chapter , and at length had the audacity to squat themselves down within the jurisdiction of Fort Goed Hoop . The long - bodied Van Curlet protested with great ...
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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.