A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . 1. A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK I99 far out of town, bounded by Pine, Cedar, and Nas-sau streets. Here in 1704 they built a quaint stonechurch, fronting on Pine Street, which stood untilabout sixty years ago. Its last Huguenot preacherwas a queer little man, of unimpeachable learning anddulness, who modelled his sermons exactly after thepattern laid down in Claude s Essay on he preached in French, but when he resortedto English the effect was irresistible. He always an-nounced in turn each divisio
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . 1. A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK I99 far out of town, bounded by Pine, Cedar, and Nas-sau streets. Here in 1704 they built a quaint stonechurch, fronting on Pine Street, which stood untilabout sixty years ago. Its last Huguenot preacherwas a queer little man, of unimpeachable learning anddulness, who modelled his sermons exactly after thepattern laid down in Claude s Essay on he preached in French, but when he resortedto English the effect was irresistible. He always an-nounced in turn each division of his sermon, sayinggravely : Now we have de oration, or, Now wehave de peroration. But his masterpiece of effect-iveness was exhibited when, with a befittingly solemnface, he gave out the thrilling announcement, Andnow, my friends, we come to de pa-tet-ic. It is creditable to the religious spirit of the Knicker-bocker founders of New York that, without makingany proclamation of their piety, they tolerated allsects, and established here, what the Puritans did notleave unstained in
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