Collections of the New-York Historical Society, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Collections of the New-York Historical Society, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by New-York Historical Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Collections of the New-York Historical Society, Vol. 1 York should have seen fit to make the fathers of the republic the subjects of a coarse caricature, ' in which the inventive ingenuity of the author is only equalled by the grossness of his conceptions. The effort was well suited to the English notions of the Dutch char acter, too common, perhaps, among ourselves, and thus easily se quired an ill-deserved popularity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.