History of the City of New York: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeW.R.C. Clark & Meeker, 1859 - 850 pagini |
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History of the City of New York: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present ... Mary Louise Booth Vizualizare completă - 1860 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
affairs aforesaid afterwards aldermen and commonalty American Amsterdam appointed army arrival Assembly authority became Beekman British Broadway built Cadwallader Colden Captain charter citizens City Hall Clinton Colden colonists colony command common council Company Congress constable corner corporation court Curaçoa dispatched Dutch Church East River election England English erected established ferry fire force Fort Amsterdam French governor grant guilders heirs and successors Holland Hudson hundred Indians inhabitants Jersey John John Cruger Kieft Lancey land Leisler letters Long Island low-water mark Manhattan married mayor ment merchant negroes Nicholas Bayard North River party patriots peace person Petrus Stuyvesant possession present prisoners province received refused returned settlement ship shore soldiers Sons of Liberty soon Stamp Act Staten Island Stephanus Van Cortlandt Stuyvesant successors forever thence thereof thousand tion trade troops Twiller vessel Vries Wall street ward Washington West William York
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Pagina 342 - But to conclude; the question before the Court and you gentlemen of the jury is not of small nor private concern, it is not the cause of a poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying: No! It may in its consequence affect every freeman that lives under a British government on the main of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty...
Pagina 573 - Francis' tavern ; soon after which their beloved commander entered the room. His emotions were too strong to be concealed. Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, ' With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Pagina 340 - But should Mr. Attorney go about to make this a libel, he would treat it thus: "The leaders of the people (innuendo, the governor and council of New York) cause them...
Pagina 341 - Men who injure and oppress the people under their administration, provoke them to cry out and complain; and then make that very complaint the foundation for new oppressions and prosecutions.
Pagina 28 - After proceeding one hundred leagues, we found a very pleasant situation among some steep hills, through which a very large river, deep at its mouth, forced its way to the sea...
Pagina 341 - I am truly very unequal to such an undertaking on many accounts. And you see I labor under the weight of many years, and am borne down with great infirmities of body; yet old and weak as I am, I should think it my duty, if required, to go to the utmost part of the land where my service could be of any use in assisting to quench the flame of prosecutions upon information, set on foot by the government, to deprive a people of the right of remonstrating (and complaining too) of the arbitrary attempts...
Pagina 342 - ... every man who prefers freedom to a life of slavery will bless and honor you as men who have baffled the attempt of tyranny, and, by an impartial and uncorrupt verdict, have laid a noble foundation for securing to ourselves, our posterity, and our neighbors that to which nature and the laws of our country have given...
Pagina 443 - College, the interest of which was to be applied to the support of an annual lecture.
Pagina 338 - Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
Pagina 341 - ... yea, they are greedy dogs, that can never have enough." But to make them a libel, there is, according to Mr. Attorney's doctrine, no more wanting but the aid of his skill in the right adapting his innuendoes.