He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world's second metropolis. In the brick houses and the ...dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all th...e fences, within which she is held captive!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fort was the first institution that was founded here, and it is amusing to read in Champlain how assiduously they worked at it... almost from the first day of settlement. The founders of the colony thought this an excellent site for a wall,--and no doubt it was a better site, in some respects, for a wall than for a city,--but it chanced that a city got behind it. It chanced too, that a Lower Town got before it, and clung like an oyster to the outside of the crags, as you may see at low tide. It is as if you were to come to a country village surrounded by palisades in the old Indian fashion,--interesting only as a relic of antiquity and barbarism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »