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Knickerbocker's History Of New York: From The Beginning of the World to The End Of The Dutch Dynasty
Knickerbocker's History Of New York From The Beginning of the World to The End Of The Dutch Dynasty Author:Washington Irving Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES 3 : 7. Oloffe the Dreamer, Oloffe van Kortlandt, a member of the resident Dutch council in New Amsterdam. Irving tells of him in Book II., ch. iii. 3... more » : 11. Kortlandt. Irving is fond of these etymological twists, making them aid his characterization. In this respect he imitates Swift. 3 :13. Wouter Van Twiller, the successor of Peter Minuit as governor in 1632 ; he arrived at Manhattan, April, 1633. Irving's date, 1629, is incorrect. -Bancroft says he was selfish and incompetent. He was arbitrary in his enforcement of the rules of the company, and did much to stir up dissatisfaction among the patroons. He was removed in 1637. 3 : 15. High Mightinesses, etc. This is the appellation usually given to the States General of Holland in treaties and charters. 3 : 19. dan Apollo, Sir Apollo. Dan is from Lat. dominug, and was much used by the English poets from Chaucer on. It was the usual epithet for Cupid. 4:9. he seldom said a foolish thing. Cf. the old rhyme, written by the Earl of Rochester about Charles II. : — " Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relies on; He never says a foolish thing, Nor ever does a wise one." 6 : 3. timmerman, an obsolete form of timber-man. 7:1. King Log. According to jEsop, the frogs prayed to Jove to send them a king, whereupon the god threw a log into the pool At first the frogs were terribly afraid of their monarch, because of the great splash he made upon his induction into office, but they soon despised him when they found that they could leap upon his back with impunity. 7 : 23. tobacco-box as a warrant, a humorous reference to the times when kings sent signet-rings or other jewels as an indication that the messenger had for the time being royal authority. 7: 25. Haroun Alraschid, Aaron the ...« less