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... head 257 CHAP . II . - Showing how Peter the Headstrong bestirred himself among the rats and cobwebs on entering into office ; his interview with Antony the Trumpeter , and his perilous meddling with the currency 264 CHAP . III . - How ...
... head 257 CHAP . II . - Showing how Peter the Headstrong bestirred himself among the rats and cobwebs on entering into office ; his interview with Antony the Trumpeter , and his perilous meddling with the currency 264 CHAP . III . - How ...
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... head 434 · CHAP . XII . - Containing the dignified retirement , and mortal surrender of Peter the Headstrong 442 CHAP . XIII . - The Author's reflections upon what has been said 449 THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY . THE following work , in which X ...
... head 434 · CHAP . XII . - Containing the dignified retirement , and mortal surrender of Peter the Headstrong 442 CHAP . XIII . - The Author's reflections upon what has been said 449 THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY . THE following work , in which X ...
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... head because , at the first appearance of my work , its aim and drift were misapprehended by some of the descendants of the Dutch worthies ; and because I understand that now and then one may still be found to regard it with a captious ...
... head because , at the first appearance of my work , its aim and drift were misapprehended by some of the descendants of the Dutch worthies ; and because I understand that now and then one may still be found to regard it with a captious ...
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... head was a little cracked . He was a very inquisitive body , and when not in his room was continually poking about town , hearing all the news , and prying into every thing that was going on : this was particularly the case about ...
... head was a little cracked . He was a very inquisitive body , and when not in his room was continually poking about town , hearing all the news , and prying into every thing that was going on : this was particularly the case about ...
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... head sorrowfully at noticing the gradual decay of the great Vander Heyden palace ; but was highly indignant at finding that the ancient Dutch church , which stood in the middle of the street , had been pulled down , since his last visit ...
... head sorrowfully at noticing the gradual decay of the great Vander Heyden palace ; but was highly indignant at finding that the ancient Dutch church , which stood in the middle of the street , had been pulled down , since his last visit ...
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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.