 | Mary Louise Booth - New York (N.Y.) - 1859 - 868 pages
...hright of Orange, And likewise those, pomcgranitea named, Roll through the streets all unreclaimed. Saint Nicholas, my dear, good friend, To serve you...something will give, Serve you I will as long as I live." These rhymes, Mr. Valentine tells us, continued to be sung among the children of the ancient Dutch... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Business enterprises - 1868 - 408 pages
...heb u altyd wel gediend ; Als gy my nu wot wilt geben, Fal ik dienen als myn leTen." TRANSLATION. " Saint Nicholas, my dear, good friend, To serve you...will give, Serve you, I will, as long as I live." "Dinner parties "in these primitive days were unknown; but this seeming lack of social intercourse... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Associations, institutions, etc - 1872 - 1008 pages
...heb u altyd wel gediend ; Ala gy my nu wot wilt geben, Zal ik dienen ala myn leven." TRANSLATION. " Saint Nicholas, my dear, good friend. To serve you...you me now something will give, Serve you, I will, as'long as 1 live." " Dinner parties " in these primitive days were unknown ; but this seeming lack... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Erie Canal (N.Y.) - 1876 - 264 pages
...alcyd wel geiiend ; Ala gy m/ nu wot wilt geben, Fal ik d-:enen als myn leven." TRANSLATION. " Saiat Nicholas, my dear, good friend, To serve you ever...will give, Serve you, I will, as long as I live." "Dinner parties "in these primitive days were unknown; but this seeming lack of social intercourse... | |
 | 1881 - 976 pages
...originally came from Africa, having in his infancy been brought from Angolo, in the Guinea Gulf; and " Saint Nicholas, my dear good friend, To serve you...something will give, Serve you I will as long as I live." when but a boy he became the purchased slave of one of the most aiicient and respectable merchant princes... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Periodicals - 1881 - 980 pages
...originally came from Africa, having in his infancy been brought from Angolo, in the Guinea Gulf; and * "Saint Nicholas, my dear good friend, To serve you...If you me now something will give, Serve you I will us long as I live." when but a boy he became the purchased slave of one of the most ancient anil respectable... | |
 | 1881 - 980 pages
...in his infancy been brought from Angolo, in the Guinea Gulf; and * " Saint Nicholas, my dear goo:l friend, To serve you ever was my end ; If you me now something will give. Serve vou I will as Ion" as I live." I when but a boy he became the purchased slave of one of the most ancient... | |
 | Marius Schoonmaker - Kingston (N.Y.) - 1888 - 590 pages
...chimney-corners. / The following is a translation of the old Dutch song appropriate to the occasion : " St. Nicholas, my dear good friend, To serve you ever was...something will give, Serve you I will as long as I live." In those days, before all the Revolutionary patriots and their immediate descendants had gone to their... | |
 | Edward Augustus Rand - Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) - 1896 - 408 pages
...orange, And likewise those, pomegranates named, Roll through the streets all unreclaimed. Saint Nikolaas, my dear, good friend, To serve you ever was my end : If you me now some thing will give, Serve you I will long as I live." The last note flew with the sparks up the broad... | |
 | Manners and customs - 1897 - 1030 pages
...goden vriend, Ik hab u altyd wel gediend ; Als gy my nu not wilt geben, Zal ik dienen als myn leben. (" Saint Nicholas, my dear good friend, To serve you...something will give, Serve you I will as long as I live.") From an ecclesiastical point of view, however, the festival of St. Nicholas is nowhere celebrated with... | |
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Saint Nicholas, my dear, good friend, To serve you ever was my end ; * If you me now something will give, Serve you, I will, as long as I live. 
