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squire is the protecting power but his is the active and busy agent he in all its concerns is acquainted with all the inhabitants and their domestic history gives counsel to the old folks in their business matters and the young folks in their love affairs and the proud satisfaction of being a great man in a little worl...	48
team and whistled over the hills and far away and forth gaily to seek his fortune years and years passed by and young tom was forgotten when one mellow sunday afternoon in autumn a thin man somewhat advanced in life with a coat out at elbows a pair of old and a few things tied in a handkerchief and on the end of a stic...	48
and the traveller whose life is a constant of wonder and adventure while he who is tossed about the world looks back with many a sigh to the safe and quiet shore which he has abandoned i help thinking however that the man that stays at home and the comforts and pleasures daily springing up around him stands the best ch...	48
having inherited the musical taste and talents of his father he has bitten the whole school with the he is a great hand at beating a drum which is often heard from the rear of the school house he is teaching half the the school boys of the village also to play the and the pipes and they weary the whole neighbourhood wi...	48
a still greater grievance to master who has hitherto been able to sway the political opinions of the place without much cost of learning or logic but has been very much puzzled of late to weed out the doubts and already a village sown by this champion of reform indeed the latter has taken complete command at the tap ro...	48
concerns of his neighbours as to master he even to know many of them by sight and to have given to them he points out several which he says are old heads of families and them to worthy old citizens beforehand in the world that wear cocked hats and silver in their shoes notwithstanding the protecting benevolence of the ...	48
study window that looks into the churchyard there is a continual from morning till night being no great their shots are not often but every now and then a great shout from the army of makes known the of some unlucky which comes to the ground with the emphasis of a apple d nor is the entirely free from other troubles an...	48
custom became a scene of hurry and delighted confusion the servants were all with may and music and there was no keeping either the tongues or the feet of the maids quiet who were the sports of the green and the evening dance i repaired to village at an early hour to enjoy the merry making the morning was pure and sunn...	48
of action i saw that master was for making ofi as soon as he found himself in the od of this but the general was too loyal to such talk in his and thought no doubt that a look and a word from a gentleman would be sufficient to shut up so shabby an orator the latter however was no of persons but rather seemed to in havi...	48
they and strained and panted without either getting the mastery until both came to the ground and rolled upon the green just then the may day ill came by she saw her lover in fierce as she thought and in danger in a moment pride and were forgotten she rushed into the ring seized upon the rival champion by the hair and ...	48
at his mistress feet looking the manuscript over some music and poor who has always been a kind of pet among the ladies but who has risen vastly in favour with lady in consequence of some tender sat in one corner of the room with eyes working at some of the fair s wedding ornaments the silence was interrupted by her wh...	48
rows of grotesque saints in wood and wax work were offered for the purchase of the pious s the f te had assembled in one view all the picturesque of the pays d and the cot de i beheld tall stately caps and trim according to fashions which have been handed down from mother to ter for centuries the exact of those worn in...	48
pleasure when his letters were read at finding herself a constant theme of recollection and inquiry at length the sudden return of peace which sent many a warrior to his native cottage brought back a young sun burnt soldier to the village i need not say how his return was greeted by his mother who saw in him the pride ...	48
of this sudden determination was a letter delivered by his mother returning her of affection particularly the long of her hair and bidding her a last farewell in terms more full of sorrow and tenderness than this was the first stroke of real anguish that had ever received and it overcame her the vivacity of her spirits...	48
fallen into the waves the sudden of feelings after such a transient gleam of happiness was too much for her harassed frame she was carried home senseless her life was for some time of and it was months before she recovered her health but she never had perfectly recovered her mind it still remained unsettled with respec...	48
midst of her insanity to console her for the loss of her son and the touching expressions of affection that were mingled with her most wanderings of thought until his feelings would be wound up to agony and he would entreat her to from the recital they did not dare as yet to him into s sight but he was permitted to see...	48
document the flutter at my approach showed that there were some secrets under discussion and i observed the into her bosom either a love letter or an old and brushing away the tears from her cheeks the girl is a good girl of a soft n nature and shows her concern at the cruelty of her lover only in tears and drooping l ...	48
for legends and his library contains a curious collection of old works of this kind which bear evident marks of having been much read in his great love for all that is he popular and with very grave attention to every tale however strange so that through his countenance the household and indeed the whole popular is wel...	48
malignant tricks and are fond of playing upon travellers there is a story among the old people of one that haunted a ruined mill just by a bridge that crosses a small stream how that late one night as a traveller was passing on horseback the jumped up behind popular him and grasped him so close round the body that he h...	48
others making a violent about the ears of old ready money who however on in silence with his prey their abuse as little as a hawk t at has upon a barn door hero regards the and of his whole he had passed through the village on his way to the hall and of course had made a great sensation in that most place where every e...	48
the head and was evidently merely by a general sympathy for every poor devil in trouble and a liberal for all kinds of vagabond existence the ladies too large and small with the kind of the sex were zealous on the side of mercy and with the squire that the prisoner finding himself unexpectedly surrounded by active frie...	48
been where we lay the chimneys were blown down we have for a day or two past had a flaw of weather which has itself into this fair and month and for a time has quite the beauty of the landscape last night the storm attained its crisis the rain beat in torrents against the and the wind and about the old hall with quite ...	48
my old song the fair having nearly recovered from the effects of her disaster it begins to be thought high time to a day for the wedding as every domestic event in a venerable and aristocratic family like this is a matter of moment the fixing upon this important day has of course given rise to much conference and debat...	48
holiday and fondly dwelt on through many a long day of household labour and confinement if in the country it is the dance at the fair or wake the interview in the churchyard after service or the evening stroll in the green lane if in town it is perhaps merely a stolen moment of delicious talk between the bars of the a...	48
but would stand at a distance and throw stones at the building and there was something fear pleasing in the sound as they rattled along the roof or sometimes struck some of out of the origin of this house was lost m the that covers the early period of the while under the government of their the states general some the ...	48
public about doing something for her grew less s she had to cast about for some mode of doing something for herself by way of help ing out her slender means and maintaining her independence of which she was somewhat living in a town she had caught something of the spirit and determined to venture a little in the great...	48
from a ah it had been that of a boy of s years who had been to a famous german doctor and had died of a consumption it is true there had been a whisper that the deceased had been brought to his end by being made the subject of the doctor s ments on which he was apt to try the effects of a new compound or a draught this...	48
unless as is observed the case has been left too long before it was put into their hands the doctor s library was the talk and marvel of the neighbourhood i might almost say of the entire the good people looked with reverence at a man that had read three whole shelves full of books and some of them too as large as a fa...	48
in wealth he began to extend his possessions and to look forward like other great men to the time t hen he should retire to the repose of a country seat for this purpose he had purchased a farm or as the dutch called it a a few miles from town it had been the residence of a wealthy family that had returned some time si...	48
holidays he was a bold rider he was famous for leaping and he played tolerably on the fiddle could swim like a fish and was the best hand in the whole place at or all these accomplishments however procured him no favour in the eyes of the doctor who grew more and more and the nearer the term of approached too was for e...	48
meeting that was held that very day and the black cook her kitchen and spent half of the day at the street pump that place of servants dealing forth the news to all that came for water in a little time the whole town was in a with tales about the haunted house some said that had seen the devil while others hinted that ...	48
gazed about the room he was turning over in his mind his idle habits his doubtful prospects and now and then heaving a heavy sigh as he thought on his poor old mother for there is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind by and by he thought he heard a sound as if s...	48
all was again silent lay and listened earnestly counted every listened and listened if the steps should return h exhausted with watching and agitation he fell into a troubled sleep daylight again brought fresh courage and assurance he would fain have considered all that had passed as a mere dream yet there stood the ch...	48
disappeared the door remained fast barred and bolted there was no other mode of exit yet the being whatever he might be was gone he the door and looked out into the fields it was a moonlight night so that the eye could distinguish objects at some distance he thought he saw the unknown in a that led from the door he was...	48
this mighty river and beyond those blue mountains that had bounded his horizon since childhood while he was lost in this whirl of thought the sails strained to the breeze the shores seemed to hurry away behind him and before he perfectly recovered his self possession the was her way past devil and and the chimney of th...	48
the many hours which he had devoted to sporting in the had made him an expert swim yet with all his strength and skill he found great difficulty in reaching the shore his disappearance from the deck had not been noticed by the crew who were all occupied hy their own danger the was driven along with inconceivable rapidi...	48
between him and the light they were in complete shadow but one of them happening to move round to the opposite side was startled at perceiving by the full glare falling on painted features and glittering on silver ornaments that he was an indian he now looked more narrowly and saw guns leaning against a tree and a dead...	48
hand till he roared and kiss his wife and daughters before his face in short was no pride nor ill humour about besides his indian on he had three or four humble friends among the white men who looked up to him as a patron and had the run of his kitchen and the favour of being taken with him occasionally on his it was ...	48
his ship which they affirm was nothing more nor less than a spell of these same to prevent his getting to china in this direction the greater part however observed accounted for all the extraordinary circumstances attending this river and the of the which it by the old legend of the storm ship which haunted point no po...	48
and tide which were both down the y the hip river upon this van who was likewise harbour master ordered his boat and set off to board her but after two or three hours he returned without success sometimes he would get within one or two hundred yards of her and then in a twinkling she would be half a mile off some said ...	48
the old story of the ship the captains of the river craft talk of a little the storm ship dutch in trunk and sugar hat with a speaking trumpet in his hand which they say keeps about the they declare that they have heard him in stormy weather in the midst of the turmoil giving orders in low dutch for the up of a fresh ...	48
on the faces of the sleeping savages and the too who so singularly yet vaguely reminded him of the nightly to the haunted house now and then he heard the cry of some animal from the forest or the of the owl or the notes of the whip poor will which seemed to abound among these or the splash of a leaping out of the river...	48
household affairs seemed to be conducted in some measure after the master s corrected perhaps by a little quiet management of the daughter s there was a great degree of simplicity and good humoured indulgence the came into the room without being called merely to look at their master and hear of his adventures they woul...	48
warned him of the of the hour he put out the light but remained for a long time turning over these curious circumstances and in his mind until he fell asleep his dreams partook of the nature of his waking thoughts he fancied that he still lay gazing on the picture until by degrees it became animated that the figure des...	48
the haunted house in the midst of these he entered the street in which his mother house was situated when he was at beholding it a heap of ruins there had evidently l een a great fire which had destroyed several large houses and the humble dwelling of poor dame had been involved in the the walls were not so destroyed b...	48
talk in that strain i ve been too long a charge upon you it s now my part to take care of you in your old days come be of good heart you and i and will all see better d i m here you see young and sound and hearty then don t let us despair dare say things will all some how or turn out for the best while this scene was g...	48
feelings by marrying the pretty and how he and mj had many a merry and expedition together i must not omit to say however that took his mother home to live with him and cherished her in her old days the good too ha d the of no longer hei her on made tlie theme of censure on th contrary he grew daily in public esteem b...	48
as it were awe struck at a marriage ceremony which is generally considered as an occasion of and rejoicing as the ceremony was performing i observed many a rosy face among the country girls turn pale and i did not see a smile throughout the wedding the church the young ladies from the hall were almost as much frightene...	48
be surprised if it holds good in the present instance i have seen several among the young people that have been brought together on this occasion and a great deal of strolling about in pairs among the retired walks and of the old garden and if groves were really given to as poets would fain make us believe heaven knows...	48
by gratifying rather than the angry feelings that were then against england and here let me acknowledge my warm my thankful feelings at the effect produced by one of my trivial i allude to the essay in the sketch book on the subject of the literary between england and america i cannot express the delight i have experie...	48
book second treating of the first settlement of the province of chap i in which are contained divers reasons why a man should not write in a hurry also of master his discovery of a strange country and how he was rewarded by the of their high chap ii containing an account of a mighty ark which floated under the prote...	48
river chap iv describing the powerful army that assembled at the city of new together with the interview between peter the and general von and peter s sentiments touching unfortunate great men chap v in which the author very of himself after which is to be found much interesting history about peter the and his fol...	48
never find their way it is not a matter of surprise that mr should never have seen the numerous 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 thereby he was prevented from making several the author xix i...	48
although he never with the public papers yet had he the credit of writing innumerable essays and smart things that appeared on all subjects and all sides of the question in all which he was clearly detected u by his style he contracted moreover a considerable debt at the post office in consequence of the numerous lette...	48
manner of with various characters of ancient drawn at full length and faithfully coloured i have it with profound political speculations like it with the graces of sentiment like and into the whole the dignity the grandeur and magnificence of i am aware that i shall the censure of numerous very learned and judicious cr...	48
this perilous under history op taking they bad better take a short cut round and wait for me at the beginning of some chapter of the creation of the world we have a thousand contradictory accounts and though a very satisfactory one is furnished by divine revelation yet every philosopher feels himself in honour bound to...	48
wept herself into a fountain or the good dame of in france who for a of tongue unusual in her sex was doomed to five hundred thousand and thirty nine ropes of and actually ran out at her eyes before half the hideous task was accomplished the same ingenious philosopher who in his after the for which the mischief loving ...	48
cautiously admitted as additional testimony it appears i say and i make the assertion deliberately without fear of contradiction that this globe really was created and that it is composed of land and water it further appears that it is curiously divided and out into and islands among which i boldly declare the renowned...	48
de who declares it a real and most ridiculous to suppose that ever entertained the thought of discovering america and as is a dutch writer i am inclined to believe he must have been much better acquainted with the worthy crew of the ark than his and of course possessed of more accurate sources of information it is asto...	48
made the old poet rail in such a passion at curiosity which he most heartily as an irksome care a superstitious industry about things an humour to see what ia not to be seen and to be doing what nothing when it is done but to proceed of the claims of the children of to the original population of this country i shall sa...	48
to the progress of sound knowledge theories are at best but productions and when once committed to the stream they should take care that like the notable pots which were fellow they do not crack each other for my part when i beheld the i have quoted gravely for unaccountable things and thus wisely about matters for eve...	48
and has given much distress of mind to multitudes of folks and indeed until it be totally and put to rest the worthy people of america can by no means enjoy the soil they with clear right and title and quiet the first source of right by which property is acquired in a country is discovery for as all mankind have an equ...	48
to yield them any thing more whereas it has been most unquestionably shown that heaven intended the earth should be and sown and and laid out into cities and towns and farms and country seats and pleasure grounds and public gardens all which the indians knew nothing about therefore they did not improve the talents pro...	48
kindly suffered to the forests of the north or the impenetrable of south america thus i hope i have clearly proved and strikingly illustrated the right of the early to the possession of this country and thus is this gigantic question completely so having surmounted all obstacles and subdued a l opposition what remains ...	48
had learned to smoke tobacco under sir walter and is said to have been the first to introduce it into holland which gained him much popularity in that country and caused him to find great favour in the eyes of their high the lords states general and also of the honourable west india company he was a short square old ge...	48
which had never before been visited by any european true it is and i am not ignorant of the fact that in a certain book of voyages by one is to be found a letter written to francis the first by one or john mm h wm s w b w n i i i history op it has been in our family that when the great was first blessed with a vi...	48
which had been of our ship all the time we had there and that was strange to them for they could not tell how to take it having satisfied himself by this ingenious experiment that the natives were an honest social race of jolly who had no objection to a drinking bout and were very merry in their cups the old chuckled t...	48
east of island here lifting up their eyes they beheld on what is at present called the shore a small indian village pleasantly in a grove of spreading elms and the natives all collected on the beach gazing in stupid admiration at the a boat was immediately despatched to enter into a treaty with them and approaching the...	48
to or or or any other far country that lay beyond the great waters of the chap iv how the of to bell gate and how they were received there and now the rosy blush of mom began to mantle in the east and soon the rising sun emerging from amidst golden and purple clouds shed his rays on the tin of it was that delicious sea...	48
in which van had embarked hurried it forward with a in a dutch boat by that the good who had all his life long been accustomed only to the drowsy of was more than ever convinced that they were in the hands of some supernatural power and that the jolly were them to some fair haven that was to fulfil all their wishes and...	48
his watery domain the timid deer fed undisturbed along those shores now by the lover s moonlight walk and printed by the slender foot of beauty and a savage solitude extended over those happy regions where now are reared the stately towers of the the and the thus gliding in silent wonder through these new and unknown s...	48
finger beside his nose gave the astonished van a very significant look then mounting his he returned over the tree tops and disappeared and van awoke from his sleep greatly in and he aroused his companions and related to them his dream and interpreted it that it was the will of st that they should settle down and build...	48
foreign weed finds kindly nourishment and soon shoots up and to greatness and now the infant settlement having advanced in age and stature it was thought high time it should receive an honest christian name and it was accordingly called new it is true there were some for the original indian name and many of the best wr...	48
smoked twelve pipes on the affairs of the colony by which it appears that the first did not their time by hours but pipes in the same manner as they measure distances in holland at this very time an admirably exact as a pipe in the mouth of a true born is never liable to those accidents and that are continually puttin...	48
forefathers endeavoured as much as possible to their situation by giving them gin rum and glass beads in exchange for their for it seems the kind hearted had conceived a great friendship for their savage neighbours on account of their being pleasant men to trade with and little skilled in the art of making a bargain no...	48
feelings when i the family mansion of the and spend a lonely hour in the chamber where hang the portraits of my forefathers in dust like the forms they represent with new york pious reverence do i gaze on the countenances of those renowned who have preceded me in the steady march of existence whose sober and temperate ...	48
containing a prodigious mass of soft brains whereon the ra soul lies softly and as on a feather bed and the eyes which are the windows of the are usually half closed that its may i not be disturbed by external objects a mind thus comfortably lodged and protected from disturbance is most likely to perform its functions ...	48
of intellect that that more than any thing else and i have remarked that your knowing people who are so much wiser than any body else are keeping society in a happily for new nothing of the kind was known within its walls the very words of learning education taste and talents were unheard of a bright genius was an an...	48
thing horrible uncommon or impossible it shall go hard but i will make it afford them entertainment this being i turn with great complacency to the fourth class of my readers who are men or if possible women after my own heart grave philosophical and fond of characters of taking a start from first causes and so hunting...	48
figured to great advantage swung on his and appeared most out of the whale like through a barrel of fire the parties broke up without noise and without confusion they were carried home by their own carriages that is to say by the nature had provided them excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a the gentl...	48
with the whose smiles they were ambitious to deserve true it is their merits would make but a very impression upon the heart of a modern fair they neither drove their nor their for as yet those gaudy were not even dreamed of neither did they distinguish themselves by their brilliancy at the table and their consequent w...	48
himself in the world which means nothing more nor less than to begin his to this end he takes unto himself for a wife some dashing country thai is to say a rosy passing rich in red glass beads and mock with a white gown and shoes for sunday and deeply skilled in the mystery of making apple long and pie having thus prov...	48
more experienced in the world and better acquainted with men and things all such but what chiefly to our ancestors with these strange folk was an liberty which they occasionally took of entering in into the of the new and settling themselves down without leave or license to improve the land in the manner i have before ...	48
tranquillity of this most tranquil of rulers his venerable had just breathed and smoked his last his lungs and his pipe having been exhausted together and his peaceful soul having escaped in the last that curled from his tobacco pipe in a word the renowned walter the who had so often with his now slept with his father...	48
likewise was the case i with william the who grew in proportion as he dried he was some such a little as we may now and then see briskly about the streets of our city in a broad skirted coat with buttons nearly as large as the shield of an old fashioned cocked hat stuck on the back of his head and a cane as high as his...	48
he then proceeded in a manner highly classic profoundly and nothing at all to the purpose being nothing more than a account of all the of ancient greece and the wars of home and together with the rise and fall of sundry about which the assembly knew no more than their great who were yet thus having after the manner of ...	48
ever from the object of his i t history of wishes his in the east became more and more troublesome in their and founded the colony of close upon the skirts of fort they moreover commenced the fair settlement of the red hills within the of their high while the patches of were a continual to the garrison of van upon be...	48
naked eyes heaven has given them the i profound council as i have said in their pursuit after jack o accidentally stumbled on the very sure they were in need of which was to raise a body of troops and despatch them to the relief and i of the garrison this measure was carried into such prompt operation that in less than...	48
war as was that of the or the more classic horn of it would have done one s heart good to have seen the governor snapping his fingers and with delight while his sturdy up and down the his trumpet in the face of the whole world like a thrice editor insulting all the and powers on the other side of the atlantic nor was h...	48
and determined cock at the sound of whose names the courageous verily believed that the whole parliament of praise god had been let loose to him finding however that this formidable body was composed merely of the select men of the settlement armed with no other weapon but their tongues and that they had issued forth ...	48
had settled themselves and erected a fort on south or river within the boundaries claimed by the government of the new his tory is mute as to the particulars of their first landing and their real pretensions to the soil and this is the more to be lamented as this same colony of will hereafter history of be found most m...	48
german characters had a particularly black and ominous aspect on being fairly translated into the english is no other than economy a term which by constant use and frequent mention has ceased to be formidable in our eyes but which has as terrible as any in the of when pronounced in a national assembly it has an immedi...	48
appearance under whose protecting care the community was soon set together by the ears i would not here be thought to any thing to the profession of the law or to its dignified members well am i aware that we have in this ancient new york city innumerable worthy gentlemen who have embraced that honourable order not for...	48
to a man to the top of a though the merest child can him off thence in the sage i have noticed the philosophic reader will at once perceive the faint of those called popular meetings in our day thither resort all those and of low degree who like rags hang loose upon the back of society and are ready to be blown away by...	48
magistrate they how ever like a true mob did their best to help along public affairs their governor incessantly by him on with and and then his fiery spirit with reproaches and like a knot of sunday managing an unlucky devil of a so that may be said to have been kept either on a worry or a hand gallop throughout the wh...	48
ill natured generation in taking offence at any thing i say that their ancestors did use my ancestors ill is true and i am very sorry for it i would with all my heart the fact were otherwise but as i am the sacred events of history i d not one nail s breadth of the honest truth though i were sure the whole edition of m...	48
by protesting against the whole council as a of and inasmuch as they held their meeting at new haven or the red hills which he claimed as being within the province of the new thus end the of the reign of william the for henceforth in the troubles the and the confusion of the times he seems to have been totally overlook...	48
of the monarch it is merely said new he slept with his fathers and his successor reigned in his stead the world to tell the private truth cares but little for their loss and if left to itself would soon forget to grieve and though a nation has often been drowned in tears on the death of a great man yet it is ten chance...	48
were rigidly and enforced and i do not know but justice on the whole was as well administered as if there bad been volumes of sage acts and yearly made and daily neglected and forgotten he was in fact the very reverse of his being neither tranquil and like walter the nor restless and like william the but a man or rathe...	48
eyes of the women by means of his whiskers and hi trumpet him did peter the cause to be brought into his presence and him for a moment from head to foot with a countenance that would have appalled any thing else than a of brass who and what art thou said he replied the other in no wise dismayed for my name it is van f...	48

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