Journeys through bookland; a new and original plan for reading (1912)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve company · leaf 217
this would he resolutely set himself downbefore the fortress, and rarely failed, in the pro-cess of time, to smoke the fair enemy into a sur-render upon honorable terms. Happy would it have been for New Amster-dam could it always have existed in this state oflowly simplicity; but alas! the days of… … ILIIELMUS KIEFT, who in1G3-1 ascended the gubernato-rial chair (to borrow a favoritethough chimsy appellation ofmodern phraseologists), was ofa lofty descent, his father beinginspector of windmills in theancient town of Saardam; and our hero, we aretold, when a boy made very curious investiga-tions…
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