In the canon
A History of New York
- Form
- Form Satire
- Year
- Year 1809
- Pages
- Pages 300
Before the book existed, the newspapers carried a notice: an elderly Dutch gentleman named Diedrich Knickerbocker had vanished from his boarding house, leaving behind an unpaid bill and a curious manuscript the landlord proposed to sell to settle the debt. New York fell for it, and the city has answered to Knickerbocker ever since.
There are two opposite ways by which some men make a figure in the world
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