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Excerpt from An Eulogy Upon Cornelius Rea Agnew: Read Before the New York Academy of Medicine, June 7th, 1888 A generation may be likened to a caravan, which crosses a vast and arid desert, every member of which must surely fall exhausted by the way before the goal is reached, and leave his bones to whiten on the sands. As the doomed procession advances, one falls overcome by the heat of the sun; another exhausted from fatigue another succumbs to hunger and thirst another to disease contracted by exposure while others still fall victims to strife and contention with the wild tribes which hover along the route. In time, all must die some when everything is prosperous, and the journey young; s...
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How much of the Dutch world in America survived after the English? One hundred years after the English took control of New Netherland in 1664, New York retained many Dutch characteristics. The cultural milieu shifted abruptly, however, with population growth and increased affluence following the termination of the French and Indian Wars in 1760. British customs and tastes that were stylishly attractive to a new generation of moneyed colonists soon put Dutch culture in retreat in all but the most isolated areas. Some elements of the past persisted in ways never dreamed of by the Dutch West India Company officials, who oversaw their nation's colonization in America. These include caucus politi...
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