 ... old clothes-women, &c. At first, every one won, and no one lost. Some of the poorest people gained in a few months houses, coaches and horses, and figured away like the first characters in the land. In every town some tavern was selected, which served...  The Royal Lady's Magazine - Page 2251834Full view - About this book
 | Johann Beckmann - Inventions - 1814 - 508 pages
...chimneysweeps, footmen, maid-servants, and old -clotheswomen, &c. At first, every one won and no one lost. Some of the poorest people gained in a few months...for themselves, and had their notaries and clerks. When the nature of this trade is considered, it will readily be perceived, that to get possession of... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...footmen, maid-servants, old clothes-women, &c. At first, every one won, and no one lost. Some of ihe poorest people gained, in a few months, houses, coaches...for themselves, and had their notaries and clerks. These dealers in flowers were by no means desirous to get possession of them ; no one thought of sending,... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1817 - 572 pages
...chimneysweeps, footmen, maid-servants, and old-clotheswomen, &c. At first, every one won and no one lost. Some of the poorest people gained in a few months...away like the first characters in the land. In every / * A peril is a small weight less than a grain. TRANS. town some tavern was selected which served... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pages
...chimney-sweeps, footmen, maid-servants, and old clothes-women, &c. At first, every one won and no one lost. Some of the poorest people gained in a few months,...for themselves, and had their notaries and clerks. During the time of ihe tulipomania, a speculator often offered and paid large sums for a root which... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...women, &c. At first every one won, and no one lost. Some of the poorest people gained, in a few mouths, houses, coaches and horses, and figured away like...for themselves, and had their notaries and clerks. These dealers in flowers were by no means desirous to get possession of them ; no one thought of sending,... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 624 pages
...chimneysweeps, footmen, maid-servants, old clothes-women, &c. At first every one won, and no one lost. Some of the poorest people gained, in a few months,...for themselves, and had their notaries and clerks. These dealers in flowers were by no means desirous to get possession of tin-in ; no one thought of... | |
 | 1825 - 604 pages
...old clothes-women, &c. At first every one won, and no one lost. Some of the poorest people gainedj in a few months, houses, coaches and horses, and figured...for themselves, and had their notaries and clerks. These dealers in flowers were by no means desirous to get possession of them ; no one thought of sending,... | |
 | 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
...chimney-sweeps, footmen, maid-servants, old clotheswomen, &c. At first, every one won and no one lost. Some of the poorest people gained, in a few months, houses, coaches and horses, and ligured away like the first characters in the land. In every town some tavern was selected which served... | |
 | 1845 - 854 pages
...houses, coaches and horses, and figured a»ay like the first characters in the land. In every to»o some tavern was selected, which served as a Change,...entertainments. They formed laws for themselves, and had notaries and clerks.' The object of these speculations, however, had notiling to do with the desire... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1845 - 862 pages
...chimney-sweeps, footmen, roaidwranta, and old clothes women. At first every one von, and no one lost. Some of the poorest people gained in a few months houses, coaches and horses, and figured «way like the first characters in the land. In every town some tavern was selected, which served as... | |
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