 Often did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them at the same time to a farmer and neither the nobleman, chimney-sweep, nor farmer had roots in their possession, or wished to possess them. Before the...  A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins - Page 21by Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 518 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1798 - 618 pages
...middle of last century. ' During the time- of the Tulipetnania, a speculator often offered juid p¿id large sums for a root which he never received, and never wished to receive. Another зоЫ roots which he never possessed nor delivered. ' Oft did a noblerr.nn purchase of a chimney-sweep... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...question — it was a non-entity ; but it furnished, like our funds, the subject of a bargain for time. During the time of the tulipomania, a speculator often...sold roots which he never possessed or delivered. Often did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pages
...entertainments. They formed laws for themselves, and had their notaries and clerks. During the time of ihe tulipomania, a speculator often offered and paid large...possessed or delivered. Oft did a nobleman purchase • A peril is a small weighl, less lhan a grain. of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2,000... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...question — it was a nonentity ; but it furnished, like our funds, the subject of a bargain for time. During the time of the Tulipomania, a speculator often...sold roots which he never possessed or delivered. Often did a nobleman purchase of a chimney sweep Tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 624 pages
...question — it was a nonentity ; but it furnished, like our funds, the subject of a bargain for time. During the time of the Tulipomania, a speculator often...sold roots which he never possessed or delivered. Often did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep Tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them... | |
 | 1825 - 604 pages
...question — it was a nonentity ; but it furnished, like our funds, the subject of a bargain for time. During the time of the Tulipomania, a speculator often...sold roots which he never possessed or delivered. Often did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep Tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 404 pages
...(jocosely) against those who have given extraordinary prices for new or beautiful species of this root. During the time of the tulipomania, a speculator often...sold roots which he never possessed or delivered. Often did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweeper tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sold them... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...question; it was a non-entity ; but it furnished, like our funds, the subject of a bargain for time. ' During the time of the tulipomania, a speculator often...sold roots which he never possessed or delivered. Often did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1845 - 862 pages
...his more excitable and less calculating brother, John Bull 'A speculator,' continues o*u authority, ' often offered and paid large sums for a root which he never received, and never wished to reAnother sold roots which he never possessed or d. Oft did a nobleman purchase of a chimneytulips... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1849 - 208 pages
...desire to possess the plants themselves, though the first purchases were prompted by that feeling. During the time of the tulipomania, a speculator often...never wished to receive. Another sold roots which he neither delivered nor possessed. Oft did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount... | |
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