(A)Knickerbocker's history of New York . Vol. 1

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR = ⅶ
• ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC = xix
• BOOK Ⅰ. CONTAINING DIVERS INGENIOUS THEORIES AND PHILOSOPHIC SPECULATIONS, CONCERNING THE CREATION AND POPULATION OF THE WORLD, AS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY OF NEW-YORK.
• CHAP. Ⅰ. - Description of the World = 27
• CHAP. Ⅱ. - Cosmogony, or Creation of the World ; with a multitude of excellent theories, by which the creation of a world is shown to be no such difficult matter as common folk would imagine = 35
• CHAP. Ⅲ. - How that famous navigator, Noah, was shamefully nicknamed ; and how he committed an unpardonable oversight, in not having four sons. With the great trouble of philosophers caused thereby, and the discovery of America = 46
• CHAP. Ⅳ. - Showing the great difficulty Philosophers have had in peopling America - and how the Aborigines came to be begotten by accident - to the great relief and satisfaction of the Author = 54
• CHAP. Ⅴ. - In Which the Author puts a mighty question to the rout, by the assistance of the Man in the Moon - which not only delivers thousands of people from great embarrassment, but likewise concludes this introductory book = 62
• BOOK Ⅱ. TREATING OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF NIEUW-NEDERLANDTS.
• CHAP. Ⅰ. - In which are contained divers reasons why a man should not write in a hurry. Also, of Master Hendrick Hudson, his discovery of a strange country - and how he was magnificently rewarded by the munificence of their High Mightinesses = 81
• CHAP. Ⅱ. - Containing an account of a mighty Ark, which floated, under the protection of St. Nicholas, from Holland to Gibbet Island - the descent of the strange Animals therefrom - a great victory, and a description of the ancient village of Communipaw = 94
• CHAP. Ⅲ. - In which is set forth the true art of making a bargain - together with the miraculous escape of a great Metropolis in a fog - and the biography of certain Heroes of Communipaw = 102
• CHAP. Ⅳ. - How the Heroes of Communipaw voyaged to Hell-Gate, and how they were received there = 111
• CHAP. Ⅴ. - How the Heroes of Communipaw returned somewhat wiser than they went - and how the sage Oloffe dreamed a dream - and the dream that be dreamed = 124
• CHAP. Ⅵ. - Containing an attempt at etymology - and of the founding of the great city of New-Amsterdam = 129
• CHAP. Ⅶ. - How the city of New-Amsterdam waxed great, under the protection of Oloffe the Dreamer = 138
• BOOK Ⅲ. IN WHICH IS RECORDED THE GOLDEN REIGN OF WOUTER VAN TWILLER.
• CHAP. Ⅰ. - Of the renowned Wouter Van Twiller, his unparalleled virtues - as likewise his unutterable wisdom in the law case of Wandle Schoonhoven and Barent Bleecher - and the great admiration of the public thereat = 145
• CHAP. Ⅱ. - Containing some account of the grand council of New-Amsterdam, as also divers especial good philosophical reasons why an alderman should be fat - with other particulars touching the state of the province = 154
• CHAP. Ⅲ. - How the town of New-Amsterdam arose out of mud, and came to be marvellously polished and polite - together with a picture of the manners of our great-great-grandfathers = 165
• CHAP. Ⅳ. - Containing farther particulars of the Golden Age, and what constituted a fine Lady and Gentleman in the days of Walter the Doubter = 174
• CHAP. Ⅴ. - In which the reader is beguiled into a delectable walk, which ends very differently from what it commenced = 181
• CHAP. Ⅵ. - Faithfully describing the ingenious people of Connecticut and thereabouts - Showing, moreover, the true meaning of liberty of conscience, and a curious device among these sturdy barbarians, to keep up a harmony of intercourse, and promote population = 187
• CHAP. Ⅶ. - How these singular barbarians turned out to be notorious sqnatters - how they built air castles, and attempted to initiate the Nederlanders in the mystery of bundling = 194
• CHAP. Ⅷ. - How the Fort Goed Hoop was fearfully beleaguered - how the renowned Wouter fell into a profound doubt, and how he finally evaporated = 200
• BOOK Ⅳ. CONTAINING THE CHRONICLES OF THE REIGN OF WILLIAM THE TESTY.
• CHAP. Ⅰ. - Showing the nature of history in general ; containing furthermore the universal acquirements of William the Testy, and how a man may learn so much as to render himself good for nothing = 209
• CHAP. Ⅱ. - In which are recorded the sage projects of a ruler of universal genius - the art of fighting by proclamation - and how that the valiant Jacobus Van Curlet came to be foully dishonoured at Fort Goed Hoop = 220
• CHAP. Ⅲ. - Containing the fearful wrath of William the Testy, and the great dolour of the New-Amsterdammers, because of the affair of Fort Goed Hoop - and, moreover, how William the Testy did strongly fortify the city - together with the exploits of Stoffel Brinkerhoff = 229
• CHAP. Ⅳ. - Philosophical reflections on the folly of being happy in times of prosperity - Sundry troubles on the southern frontiers - How William the Testy had well nigh ruined the province, through a cabalistic word - As also the secret expedition of Jan Jansen Alpendam, and his astonishing reward = 238
• CHAP. Ⅴ. - How William the Testy enriched the province by a multitude of laws, and came to be the patron of lawyers and bum-bailiffs - and how the people became exceedingly enlightened and unhappy under his instructions = 248
• CHAP. Ⅵ. - Of the great pipe plot - and of the dolorous perplexities into which William the Testy was thrown, by reason of his having enlightened the multitude = 258
• CHAP. Ⅶ. - Containing divers fearful accounts of Border Wars, and the flagrant outrages of the Mosstroopers of Connecticut - with the rise of the great Ampbyctionic Council of the east, and the decline of William the Testy = 266