Memoir Read Before the Historical Society of the State of New-York, December 31, 1816H. C. Slight, 1825 - 127 páginas |
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... intended they should raise hemp , and , the pine then abounding in the vicinity , make tar , for the use of the navy . In the conversation with him , he told me his father , at a very early day , parted with his farm in the Camp , and ...
... intended they should raise hemp , and , the pine then abounding in the vicinity , make tar , for the use of the navy . In the conversation with him , he told me his father , at a very early day , parted with his farm in the Camp , and ...
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... intended as a translation of the Spanish name . The name Mallebarre had ceased to be known until the hearing before the commissioners in 1798 , to de- termine the River St. Croix , intended in the treaty of peace which closed the war of ...
... intended as a translation of the Spanish name . The name Mallebarre had ceased to be known until the hearing before the commissioners in 1798 , to de- termine the River St. Croix , intended in the treaty of peace which closed the war of ...
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... intended translation of it , the Poor Bowery . The Dutch called the Bay bounded on the south by the Ocean , on the east by Long Island , on the north partly by the mouth of the Hudson and partly by the shore of New- Jersey , and on the ...
... intended translation of it , the Poor Bowery . The Dutch called the Bay bounded on the south by the Ocean , on the east by Long Island , on the north partly by the mouth of the Hudson and partly by the shore of New- Jersey , and on the ...
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... intended by our statute , gene- rally known as the restraining act , * making it unlaw- ful for persons , without an incorporation , to the effect of a license , from the legislature , to lend monies , the sum generally not large , so ...
... intended by our statute , gene- rally known as the restraining act , * making it unlaw- ful for persons , without an incorporation , to the effect of a license , from the legislature , to lend monies , the sum generally not large , so ...
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... the disappointment , a failure of the requisite successive christenings , to take a number of the names at once , ought perhaps to be considered only as a branch of that economy of opportunity usually intended by killing two birds 50.
... the disappointment , a failure of the requisite successive christenings , to take a number of the names at once , ought perhaps to be considered only as a branch of that economy of opportunity usually intended by killing two birds 50.
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Términos y frases comunes
adjacent afterward Albany appellation BEVERWYCK Cape Cod church claim coast Colonists Colony Connecticut corrupted creek Curler denoted dian distinguished Donck doubtless Dutch called Dutch language Dutch name Dutchess Counties East River Elizabeth Islands English entitled evil expresses Extract faith farther five nations French furnishing gave Governor Graft grant Guilders hence historian HOECK Holland Indian name inhabitants instance intended Island Kill known Laet land Latin liberty Long-Island Lord Mallebarre Memoir ment mentioned merit Mohocks Netherland never New-England New-Jersey New-York North River Note origin party pass passage Pearl-street perhaps person pounds weight pronounced question reach referred RENSSELAERWYCK retaining its Dutch Revolution rocks sailed scarcely Schenectady serve settlement ship shore side Sieur Des Monts Skipper street Stuyvesant supposed surname syllable thee tion town translated tribe Ulster County Wall-street West India Company whence whites whole wholly word
Pasajes populares
Página 109 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Página 47 - It having long been a fixed political opinion of mine, that in a democratical state, there ought to be no offices of profit for the reasons I had given in an article of my drawing in our Constitution, it was my intention when I accepted the office of President, to devote the appointed salary to some public uses.
Página 113 - He that for giving a draught of water to a thirsty person, should expect to be paid with a good plantation, would be modest in his demands, compared with those who think they deserve heaven for the little good they do on earth.
Página 113 - For my own part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts.
Página 115 - ... which implied his modest opinion that there were some, in his time, who thought themselves so good that they need not hear even him for improvement; but, nowadays, we have scarce a little parson that does not think it the duty of every man. within his reach, to sit under his petty ministrations, and that whoever omits them, offends God. I wish, to such, more humility, and to you, health and happiness, being your friend and servant.
Página 125 - Know, then, that we consider ourselves, and do insist that we are and ought to be, as free as our fellow-subjects in Britain, and that no power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
Página 98 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Página 97 - Union, at such time and place as should be agreed upon by the said commissioners, to take into consideration the trade and commerce of the United States, to consider how far an uniform system in their commercial intercourse and regulations might be necessary to their common interest and permanent harmony, and to report to the several states such an act relative to this great object, as, when unanimously ratified by them, would enable the United States in congress assembled effectually to provide...
Página 113 - I do not think that thanks and compliments, though repeated weekly, can discharge our real obligations to each other, and much less those to our Creator. You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards.
Página 48 - ... married artificers, under the age of twentyfive years, as have served an apprenticeship in the said town, and faithfully fulfilled the duties required in their indentures, so as to obtain a good moral character from at least two respectable citizens, who are willing to become sureties in a bond, with the applicants, for the repayment of the money so lent, with interest...