THE HISTORY

OF

NEW   YORK.
 

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CONTAINING THE FIRST PART OF THE REIGN OF
PETER STUYVESANT AND HIS TROUBLES WITH
THE AMPHYCTIONIC  COUNCIL.
 

CHAPTER I.

In which the death of a great man is shown to be
no very inconsolable matter of sorrow—and
how Peter Stuyvesant acquired a great name
from the uncommon strength of his head.

To a profound philosopher, like myself, who
am apt to see clear through a subject, where
the penetration of ordinary people extends but
half way, there is no fact more simple and mani¬
fest, than that the death of a great man, is a
matter of very little importance. Much as we
may think of ourselves, and much as we may ex-
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