A History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. : Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam; Being the Only Authentic History of the Time that Ever Hath Been, Or Ever Will be Published, Band 2Inskeep & Bradford, 1809 |
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... Swedes . These lossel freebooters my attentive reader will recollect had ' begun to be very troublesome towards the latter part of the reign of William the Testy , having set the proclamations of that doughty little governor at naught ...
... Swedes . These lossel freebooters my attentive reader will recollect had ' begun to be very troublesome towards the latter part of the reign of William the Testy , having set the proclamations of that doughty little governor at naught ...
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... Swedes did not suffer tamely this mena- cing movement of the Nederlanders ; on the con- trary Jan Printz , at that time governor of New Sweden , issued a sturdy protest against what he termed an encroachment upon his jurisdiction ...
... Swedes did not suffer tamely this mena- cing movement of the Nederlanders ; on the con- trary Jan Printz , at that time governor of New Sweden , issued a sturdy protest against what he termed an encroachment upon his jurisdiction ...
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... Swedes ; and if peradventure , he espied a colony of honest big bellied pumpkins quietly basking them- selves in the sun , " ah caitiff Yankees , ” would he roar , " have I caught ye at last ! " -- so saying , with one sweep of his ...
... Swedes ; and if peradventure , he espied a colony of honest big bellied pumpkins quietly basking them- selves in the sun , " ah caitiff Yankees , ” would he roar , " have I caught ye at last ! " -- so saying , with one sweep of his ...
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... Swedes , on the south , or Delaware river , has been duly re- corded in the Chronicles of the reign of William the Testy . These encroachments having been en- dured with that heroic magnanimity , which is the corner stone , or according ...
... Swedes , on the south , or Delaware river , has been duly re- corded in the Chronicles of the reign of William the Testy . These encroachments having been en- dured with that heroic magnanimity , which is the corner stone , or according ...
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... Sweden , being either deceased or removed , for of this fact some uncertainty exists ; he was succeeded by Jan Risingh , a gigantic Swede , and who , had he not been rather in - kneed and splay - footed , might have served for the model ...
... Sweden , being either deceased or removed , for of this fact some uncertainty exists ; he was succeeded by Jan Risingh , a gigantic Swede , and who , had he not been rather in - kneed and splay - footed , might have served for the model ...
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Seite 186 - 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.
Seite 58 - Some five or six inches long. so .Had you but seen him in this dress, How fierce he look'd and how big, You would have thought him for to be Some Egyptian porcupig. He frighted all, cats, dogs, and all, 35 Each cow, each horse, and each hog : For fear they did flee, for they took him to be Some strange outlandish hedge-hog.
Seite 223 - Scarce had he buffeted half-way over, when he was observed to struggle violently, as if battling with the spirit of the waters— instinctively he put his trumpet to his mouth, and giving a vehement blast— sank forever to the bottom!