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worthy reader is doubtless like the great and good peter himself with the idea that his feelings will no longer be by details of stolen horses broken heads and all the other catalogue of heart that dis these border wars but if he should indulge in such expectations it is a proof that he is but little in the ways of to ...	48
the wonderful ingenuity that has been shown of late years in and interrupting hence the cunning measure of as some political skilled in and and in the art of argument or some whose errors and may be a plea for new york refusing to his engagements and hence too that most notable expedient so popular with our government ...	48
ready to cry out and ruin so these are perpetually on the alarm for the virtue of the every manly measure is a of the every or other government around them is laying for their and they are for ever infernal plots by which they were to be betrayed and brought upon the town if any proof were wanting of the of these opin...	48
very serious difficulties and and would no doubt have produced a dissolution of the but that the council of finding that they could not stand alone if by the loss of so important a member as were fain to abandon for the present their hostile against the such is the marvellous energy and the of those composed of a numbe...	48
had any avail on these hardened they resorted to the more urgent arguments of the torture and having thus absolutely wrung the truth from their stubborn lips they condemned them to undergo the due unto the crimes they had confessed some even carried their so far as to under the torture protesting their innocence to the...	48
pe ter to defend his southern frontier j nor may it be uninteresting to my reader to have a glimpse of his person he was not very tall but notwithstanding a huge full man whose bulk did not so much arise from his being fat as windy being so completely with his own importance that he resembled one of those bags of wind ...	48
he a colony of honest big quietly themselves in the sun ah would he roar have i caught ye at last so saying with one sweep of his sword he would the unhappy history of vegetables from their to their by which warlike his being in some sort he would return to his garrison with a full conviction that he was a very miracl...	48
hangs up in the family mansion of the arrayed in all the terrors of a true dutch general his coat of german blue decorated with a goodly show of large brass buttons reaching from his to his chin the skirts turned up at the corners and separating gallantly behind so as to display the seat of a pair of coloured trunk bre...	48
the of s followers as a compliment to himself so apt are great men to stand between themselves and the sun and completely the truth by their own shadow new york it may readily be imagined how much general von was flattered by a visit from so august a personage his only embarrassment was how he should receive him in su...	48
the whole province was once thrown in by the return of one of his wherein it was stated that though like captain he had only twenty men to back him yet in the short space of six months he had conquered and utterly sixty oxen ninety one hundred sheep ten thousand one thousand of potatoes one hundred and fifty of small b...	48
there might be seen a rude perched among the cliffs of the mountains with its curling column of smoke mounting in the transparent atmosphere but so situated that the of the savage children on the margin of the dizzy heights fell almost as faintly on the ear as do the notes of the lark when lost in the vault of heaven n...	48
scenes were lost upon the gallant occupied his mind but thoughts of iron war and proud of hardy deeds of arms neither did his honest crew trouble their vacant heads with any romantic speculations of the kind the pilot at the quietly smoked his pipe thinking of nothing either past present or to come those of his comrad...	48
force of warriors heavily armed being each clad in ten pair of breeches and by broad with short pipes twisted in their these were the men who in the mud along the shores of being of the race of genuine and were to have sprung from at a little distance was the tribe of warriors who came from the neighbourhood of hell ga...	48
first chapter took to their heels and never ceased until tbey had fairly run it out of sight when they stopped to take breath to tell their friends what troubles they had undergone and to warn all others from venturing on so an expedition every page my ranks more and more and of the vast multitude that first set out bu...	48
security to devise new laws but faithfully those which were already made rather bending their attention to prevent evil than to punish it ever that civil should consider themselves more as of public morals than rat employed to public finally he them one and all high and low rich and poor to conduct themselves as well ...	48
they please neither nor any other of them all did ever record a fight than that in which my are now about to engage and you oh most excellent readers whom for your faithful i could cherish in the warmest corner of my heart be not uneasy trust the fate of our favourite to me for by the come what may i ll stick by har...	48
the combat of two flies upon his the eyes of all mankind as usual in such cases were turned upon fort the sun like a little man in a crowd at a show about the heavens his head here and there and endeavouring to get a peep between the clouds that themselves in his way the filled their the poets went without their dinne...	48
york another place were collected on a rising the men of sing sing who assisted in the fight by forth the great song of st but as to the of they were absent from the battle having been sent out on a party to lay waste the neighbouring water patches in a different part of the field might be seen the van of s nose but th...	48
was the dreadful blow but not without to the great peter a fearful loss of wind like as a furious bear when by worrying turns fiercely round his teeth and springs upon the foe so did our hero turn upon the treacherous the miserable sought in flight for safety but the active peter seizing him by an that from his head a...	48
that on this memorable day he gained a sufficient quantity of glory to a dozen of the greatest heroes in history of chap viii in which the author and the reader while after the battle fall into a very grave discourse after which is recorded the conduct of peter after his victory thanks to st we have safely finished th...	48
sacrifice to the that their achievements should be recorded had not his lofty the elegant the of had remained and such too after all the toils and perils he had after all the gallant actions he had achieved such too had nearly been the fate of the peter but that i fortunately stepped in and engraved his name on the of ...	48
but as it was fortunately his wooden leg the wound was promptly and effectually healed and now nothing remains to this branch of my history but to mention that this hero and his victorious army returned to the marching under the shade of their as did the followers of young under the moving forest of thus did they make ...	48
a sturdy between the mob and the administration they were great for popularity and for the rights of the resembling in disinterested zeal the wide mouthed of ancient rome or those virtuous of modern days emphatically the friends of the people new york under the of these profound it is astonishing how suddenly enlighten...	48
side x history of these symptoms of state and ceremony occasioned con discontent among the vulgar they had been accustomed to find easy access to their former and in particular had lived on terms of extreme familiarity with william the they therefore were very impatient of these dignified precautions which discouraged ...	48
of guns every house was a temple to the jolly god of cherry brandy true and were set afloat on the occasion and not a poor man in town but made it a point to get drunk out of a principle of pure economy taking in liquor enough to serve him for half a year afterwards it would have done one s heart good also to have see...	48
the of exposing his sacred person in the midst of a strange and barbarous people with sundry other all which had about as much influence upon the determination of the peter as though you were to endeavour to turn a rusty with a broken therefore to his presence his van he commanded him to hold himself in readiness to a...	48
journey cheerily along the course of the soft flowing whose gentle waves says the song roll through many a fertile and sunny plain now reflecting the lofty of the bustling city and now the rural beauties of the humble hamlet now echoing with the busy hum of commerce and now with the cheerful song of the peasant at ever...	48
than to contemplate a community where every individual has a voice in public affairs where every individual thinks himself the of the nation and where every individual thinks it his duty to himself for the good of his i say there is nothing more interesting to a philosopher than to see such a community in a sudden bus...	48
long tongues together with a great triumph of economy it will need but very little penetration in any one acquainted with the character and habits of that most potent and monarch the sovereign people to discover that notwithstanding all the bustle and talk of war that stunned him in the last chapter the renowned city...	48
for defence that were struck out not one of which had ever been heard of before nor has been heard of since unless it be in very modern days projects that threw the system of the ingenious completely in the back ground still however nothing could be decided on for so soon as a formidable host of air castles were reare...	48
this re treat yet the particular state of the public affairs will not allow me to indulge in a full recital thereof let it suffice to say that while peter was anxiously revolving in his mind how he could make good his escape with honour and dignity certain of the ships sent out for the conquest of the touched at the ea...	48
speeches were generally marked by a simplicity approaching to and by truly decision addressing the grand council he touched briefly upon the perils and hardships he had sustained in escaping from his foes he next reproached the council for wasting in idle debate and party that time which should have been devoted to the...	48
speech of this inspired being finished fell into a kind of popular which ed not only a string of right wise resolutions but e a most resolute memorial addressed to the go m new york at his conduct which was no sooner handed to him than he handed it into the fire and thus deprived posterity of an invaluable document tha...	48
top of his head up and down in front of his house determined to defend his beloved city to the last history of while all these struggles and were prevailing in the unhappy city of new and while its worthy hut ill governor was the above quoted letter the english did not remain idle they had agents secretly employed to t...	48
at length dashing it from him he seized his brass sword and it from the swore by st he d sooner die than yield to any power under heaven in vain was every attempt to shake this sturdy were exhausted to no purpose for two whole days was the house of the peter by the and for two whole days did he himself to his arms and ...	48
his house because it consisted of english cherry trees the same incessant vigilance that blazed forth when he had a vast province under his care now showed itself with equal vigour though in limits he with around the boundaries of his little territory every with punished every upon his orchard or his farm yard with sev...	48
smile of exultation sunk back upon his pillow and expired thus died peter a soldier a loyal subject an upright governor and an honest who wanted only a few to desolate to have been as a hero his funeral were celebrated with the utmost grandeur and solemnity the town was perfectly emptied of its inhabitants who crowded...	48
ring the and books to the authors and of i during the times therein mentioned and extending the of to the arts of and bis other prints james of the of contents or vol i account of the page x address to the public d theories and speculations the creation and population or the world as connected with the history or new c...	48
run and my wife who is a very shrewd body at once set him down for eminent country as the independent hotel is a very small house i was a little puzzled at first where to put him but my wife who seemed taken with his looks would needs pat him in c vol account of ber which is set off with the of the whole family done i...	48
to his relations at as well as to certain of our most substantial dutch citizens he expired in the arms of his friend the his remains were according to his own request in st mark s churchyard close by the bones of his favourite hero peter and it is that the historical society have it in mind to erect a wooden ment to h...	48
to relate them for after all gentle cities of and in fact of theme eh ts arc without aa historian it is the patient x preface who records their prosperity as they rise who forth the splendour of their who their feeble as they to decay who t their scattered fragments as they rot and who at length their ashes into th...	48
other equally sage opinions we have the profound conjectures of son of al son of son of son of son of el who is commonly called di and but who takes the humble title of ar which means the the of god he has written a universal history entitled or the golden meadows and the mines of precious stones j in this valuable wor...	48
correct but to the of dame nature who with the of her sex is continually indulging in and and seems really to take pleasure in all philosophic rules and the most learned and of her it happened with respect to the foregoing satisfactory tion of the motion of our planet it appears that the force has long since ceased to ...	48
goose such of my readers as take a proper interest in the origin of this our planet will be pleased to learn that the most profound of antiquity among the and have alternately assisted at the pf this strange bird and that their have book i creation of the been caught and continued in different tones and from philosoph...	48
find himself lost in the clouds and in danger of tumbling into the abyss of nonsense and absurdity he has but to seize a by the beard mount of its tail and away he in triumph like an on his or a witch on her to sweep the out of the sky it is an old and vulgar saying about a beggar on horseback which i would not for the...	48
reason i discern of the voyages and adventures of tliis i shall seeing that already sufficiently known nor shall i undertake to prove that this country should have been called after his name that being self evident having thus happily got my readers on this side of the atlantic i picture them to myself all impatience t...	48
both an and a dutch man to boot is entitled to great respect that north america was peopled by a strolling company of and that was founded by a colony from china or the first being himself a chinese nor shall i more than barely mention that father the settlement of america to the to the to the to a party from to the t...	48
in five hundred different ways as proved by a cloud of authors who from the of their seem to have been eye witnesses to the fact that the people of this country had a variety of fathers which as it may not be thought much to their credit by the common run of readers the less we say on the subject the better the questi...	48
which has most been by the zealous and pious fathers of the church is the of the christian faith it was truly a sight that might well inspire horror to behold these savages ll dark mountains of pa and guilty o e want of most horrible ignorance of religion it is true they neither stole nor they were sober continent and ...	48
beg my readers will not have the to smile as is too frequently the fault of readers when tlie grave speculations of philosophers i am far from indulging in any vein at present nor is the supposition i have been making so wild as many may deem it it has long been a very serious and anxious question with me many a time a...	48
the preliminary chapters with the discovery population and final settlement of america were totally and superfluous and that the main business the history of new york is not a more advanced than if had never taken up my pen never were wise people more mistaken in their conjectures in consequence of going to work slowl...	48
stood but little chance of running down a continent in the dark he likewise the from wearing more than five and six pair of breeches under pretence of rendering them more alert and no man was permitted to go aloft and hand in sails with a pipe in his mouth as is the invariable dutch custom at the present day all these ...	48
silence except the following dry joke played off by the old and his school fellow robert which does such vast credit to their ex philosophy that i cannot refrain from it our master and his mate determined to try some of the men of the whether they had any in them so they them into the cabin and gave them so much wine a...	48
he world that the country is still under the of their high and that the ity of new york still goes by the name of they meet every saturday afternoon it the only tavern in the place which bears as a a square headed likeness of the prince of range where they smoke a silent pipe by way i social and invariably a of to the...	48
t cannot help remarking how convenient it would he to many of our great men and doubtful origin could they have the privilege of the heroes of who whenever their was involved in obscurity modestly announced descended from a god and who never visited a foreign country but what they told some cock and bull stories about...	48
our forefathers even in after times when they became more adventurous and to or or any ot et that lay beyond the great waters ot s golden clouds and cr chapter iv how the heroes of to gate and how they were received there and now the rosy blush of began to man tie in the east and soon the rising sun emerging from amid...	48
of some si power and that the jolly were them to some fair haven that was fulfil all their wishes and expectations thus borne away by the current the doubled that boisterous point of land since s hook and leaving to the right the winding of the they drifted int a magnificent expanse of water surrounded i pleasant shore...	48
base this is the bluff well known to modem by the name of s point from the fair castle which like an elephant it carries upon its back and here broke upon their view a wild and varied prospect where land and water were as though they had combined to and set each other s a charms to their right lay the point of i s isla...	48
were incessantly assailed with the raging of the elements and the howling of the that this strait but the dawned the horrors of the preceding evening had passed away and had disappeared the stream again ran smooth and j and having changed its tide rolled gently back towards the quarter where lay their much regretted ho...	48
other words a little city both which have strangely come to pass the great object of their perilous therefore being thus happily accomplished tl returned merrily ik they were received with great and here calling a general meeting of all the wise men and the of they related the whole history of their voyage and of the ...	48
increase of houses gradually awakened the good e from a deep into which he had fallen after the fort he now began think it was time some plan should be devised od which the built sum j therefore his and y took pipe in mouth and forthwith sunk into a very sound deliberation on tlie subject at the very outset of the busi...	48
chapter vii how the city of under the protection of off e the there is something exceedingly in thus looking back and catching glimpse of the fairy of antiquity that lie beyond like some goodly landscape melting into distance they receive a thousand charms from their very obscurity and the fancy delights to till up the...	48
place the little dutch boys in the use of the bow and arrow at other times with liquor and and yelling about the town like so many to the great dismay of all good wives who would hurry their children into the house fasten the doors and throw water upon the enemy from tlie garret windows it rs worthy of here that our f...	48
admission of still which would have tended to the colouring of hi portrait you i j case of v i have been the more anxious to fully the person and habits of tlie renowned van from the consideration that he was not only tlie first but also the best governor that ever presided over this ancient and respectable province an...	48
of a fat little who actually died of in an unsuccessful effort to force a laugh at one of er van s best jokes in return for these humble services they were permitted to say yes and no at the council board and to have that privilege the run of the being permitted to eat and drink and smoke at all those snug and public...	48
and never enforced when awake in a word your fair round like a full fed quietly t the house door always at home and always at hand to watch over its safety but as to a lean candidate to the office as has now and been done i would as leave put a to watch the house or a race horse to drag an ox the then as i have alread...	48
body with concerns above his nor thrust his nose into people nor to correct his own and reform his own character in his zeal to pi to pieces the characters of but in a every respectable citizen eat when he was n hungry drank when be was not thirsty and we regular to bed when the sun set and the went to whether he were ...	48
his dog 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 carriages that is to say by the nature had provided them excepting such of the wealthy as could afford to keep a wa on...	48
of too pacific a disposition to need those of the night every soul throughout the sound asleep before nine o clock neither did they establish their claims to at the expense of their for as yet those against the pockets of society and the tranquillity of all young gentlemen were unknown in new eveiy good made the clothe...	48
melancholy progress of improvement and the zeal with which our worthy hers endeavour to preserve the of venerable customs prejudices and errors from overwhelming tide of modern a described degrees my ideas took a different turn awakened to an enjoyment of around me as one of rich days which particularly upon the of and...	48
ingenious people of con and moreover the true meaning of liberty of conscience and a curious device among these sturdy to keep up a harmony of intercourse and promote population p r p r u x a t i ment i i r r u province of and its governor it is necessary that should give some account of a of strange ...	48
where are ox their advantages of where then is the difference in principle between our measures and those you are so ready to condemn among the people i am treating of there is none the difference is merely thus we instead of we instead of we turn out of office instead of hanging and where they burnt an in we eithe...	48
and splendour the envy and hate of all the pains taking in his neighbourhood had he not accidentally perished witli cold in one corner of his mansion being thus completely settled and to use his own words to rights one would imagine that he would begin to enjoy the comforts of his situation to read newspapers talk poli...	48
troops of who have those quarters and have the no mercy in their works among the rest mr declares that the dutch were always mere now to this shall make no other reply than to proceed in the of my history which will contain not only proofs that the dutch had clear title and possession in the fair valleys of the and th...	48
provided as for the poet and the historian while the poet and the historian were destined to record the achievements of heroes these and many similar reflections arose in my mind as i took up my pen to commence the reign of william for now the stream of our history which hitherto has rolled in a tranquil current is abo...	48
it is possible he would have been much greater governor he was exceedingly of trying philosophical and political and having head full and of ancient and an and the laws of so ion and us and and the of i and the of and a thousand other fragments o venerable antiquity he was for ever bent introducing some one or other of...	48
a mail on sore points of the kind by that it was a government of his own election to which through choice adding at the same time a profound which he had found in an ancient author that he who would to govern should first learn to fate op the chapter in which are recorded the sage projects of a ruler of universal geniu...	48
and other fish within it waters fell into the hands of the victorious by whom they are held at this very day great despondency seized upon the city of new in consequence of these melancholy events the name of yankee became as terrible among our good ancestors as was that of among the ancient and all the sage old women ...	48
heart and the stomach are so nearly allied it follows that what affects the one must s c s the head other now it is an equally fact that of all to the stomach there is none more grateful than the marine animal known commonly by the vulgar name of and in such great reverence has it ever been held by my fellow citizens t...	48
of reason those are the very moments of anxiety and apprehension well knowing that according to the system of things happiness is at best but transient and that the higher he is elevated by the capricious breath of fortune the lower must be his whereas he who is overwhelmed by calamity has the less chance of fresh as ...	48
remote consequence of his profound education where of knowledge he was ever after a at of continually dipping k j ever studying to the bottom o is vo so that he had the f all kinds of authors in his in some of these title page he over a grand political word which with his customary facility he immediately into his gr...	48
many and fragments of which have floated down the stream le from venerable antiquity and have been picked up by those humble but who along the shores of find the following sage of the anxious to the ancient laws of the state from the improvements of profound country or for popularity that whoever proposed a new law id...	48
for the purpose of the where one the constitution the other the purse and it may likewise be that a patient who has once been under the hands of a is ever after in and him self with and an ignorant man who has once with the law under the of one of these is for ever after himself with his neighbours and himself with suc...	48
of the into william the wag reason of his having enlightened the as has already been made manifest was a great upon a small scale active or rather a busy mind at is to say his was one of those small but brisk minds which make up by bustle and constant motion for the want of great scope and power he had when quite a bee...	48
never have known how to make up his mind on any question and might have run a great risk of right by mere had he not had others to think for him and a file leader to vote after thus then the enlightened inhabitants of the divided into par e n o vol g against the governor to oi hate one another more accurately and now t...	48
i lie s out of the of into daily with reproaches blows beating tlie people with all disgrace that tliey could imagine may the english of have violently cut loose a horse of the honoured companies that stood bound upon the common or may the companies horses upon the companies ground were driven away by them of or and th...	48
of hard in this manner did the but william the finally out o a kind of animal like a rush so that when grin death finally him out there was left enough of him to bury end of vol i j a history of new york from the of the world to the end of the dutch among su and curious the unutterable of walter the the disastrous pro...	48
once to put a stop to such grievous scarcely therefore had he entered upon his authority than he turned out of all those spirits that composed the cabinet of william the place of whom he chose unto himself from those fat respectable that had flourished and the easy reign of walter the ah the system these he caused to b...	48
as to meet danger face to face and take it by the beard determined therefore to put an end to all these petty on the borders he wrote two or three letters to the grand council which though neither ia bad latin nor yet by about wolves and and op yet had more effect than all the elaborate and of his learned put together ...	48
no entered into ko are the best terms to restrain the will no specific limits the jealousy of right in our nature as each party has some to hope and expect from the other it is that the two nations are so gracious friendly to each other their ministers the highest mutual regard exchanging ts making fine speeches and al...	48
the internal prosperity of his beloved though a man of great modesty he could not help that he had at length shut the temple of and tiiat were all rulers like a certain person who should be nameless it never be opened again but the exultation o the worthy governor was put to a speedy check for scarce was the treaty con...	48
mind of peter the and if my admiration for it has on this occasion transported my style beyond the gravity which becomes the laborious of historic events i can plead as an apology that though a little gray headed arrived almost at the bottom of the down hill of life i still retain some portion of that celestial fire wh...	48
by putting a nation in and fixing it in an attitude in which and attitude it makes as martial a figure and is likely to itself with as much as the renowned when suddenly equipped to defend his island of the sturdy peter eyed this ragged regiment with some such aspect as a man would eye the devil but knowing like a wise...	48
ot er border towns in a prodigious turmoil up their rusty pieces and shouting aloud for war by which they anticipated easy and gorgeous spoils from the little fat dutch villages but this joyous was soon silenced by the conduct of the colony of struck with the gallant spirit of the brave old peter and convinced by the f...	48
in their own so tl it may truly be said that the were bu to gratify the of the day but w tried for the satisfaction of the whole world tl should come after them finding therefore that neither sound reason nor friendly entreaty had any a on these hardened they resorted to more urgent arguments of the torture and h ing...	48
being so completely in ted with his own that he one of those bags of wind which j in l incredible fit of generosity gave to that wan ting warrior his dress with his character for he id almost as much brass and copper without nature had stored away within his coat was and and with er lace and round the body with crimso...	48
his toes and hold up his head on parade and the breadth of their to all such as had any shirts to their backs having one day in the course of his devout in the bible for the pious himself could not exceed him in outward religion encountered the history of and his me end the general in an evil hour issued orders for th...	48
rat tail below his waist a shining stock of black leather supporting his chin and a little but fierce cocked hat stuck with a gallant and fiery air over his left eye such was the port of peter the head i and when he made a sudden halt plant his port ed himself on his solid with his wooden leg with silver a little in ad...	48
a small man the skirts of which reached a little below his waist the buttons were between his shoulders and the sleeves half way to his wrists ao that his hands looked like a couple of huge and the coat not being large to meet in front was linked together by made of a pair of red another had an old cocked hat stuck on...	48
light of and not to repeat the offence whenever another opportunity presented sometimes in consequence of some he would from the garrison and be absent for a month at a time about the woods and with a long piece on his shoulder laying in for game or himself down on the edge of a pond catching fish for hours together u...	48

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