A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806 ...Phillips, 1807 - 301 páginas |
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... Amsterdam : dancing Dutchmen : the Beguines : ladies of Holland : house - rent : the water of Amsterdam 164 CHAPTER XVI . Police : fires : laws relating to debtors ; ditto to bankrupts : the aanspreekers : singular custom : the ...
... Amsterdam : dancing Dutchmen : the Beguines : ladies of Holland : house - rent : the water of Amsterdam 164 CHAPTER XVI . Police : fires : laws relating to debtors ; ditto to bankrupts : the aanspreekers : singular custom : the ...
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... Amsterdam . Even an English merchant would be astonished to see the wonderful arithmetical attainment of stripling clerks in any of the Dutch compting - houses , and the quantity of complicated business which they discharge in the ...
... Amsterdam . Even an English merchant would be astonished to see the wonderful arithmetical attainment of stripling clerks in any of the Dutch compting - houses , and the quantity of complicated business which they discharge in the ...
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... Amsterdam , and several other places , they will not pass for more than 50 or 51 stivers . In Zealand they are worth 53 . Sixty stiver piece , called a three guilder piece . Much in use . Sixty - three stiver piece , or ducatoon ...
... Amsterdam , and several other places , they will not pass for more than 50 or 51 stivers . In Zealand they are worth 53 . Sixty stiver piece , called a three guilder piece . Much in use . Sixty - three stiver piece , or ducatoon ...
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... once celebrated opposition financier . " It is said that his thoughts have been so long directed " To the national debt that his own are neglected . " E I remember while at Amsterdam a servant was very angry TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 33.
... once celebrated opposition financier . " It is said that his thoughts have been so long directed " To the national debt that his own are neglected . " E I remember while at Amsterdam a servant was very angry TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 33.
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Sir John Carr. I remember while at Amsterdam a servant was very angry because I would not suffer her to wash my bedroom every day . It might be supposed that in a climate which must be naturally very humid , the natives would prefer ...
Sir John Carr. I remember while at Amsterdam a servant was very angry because I would not suffer her to wash my bedroom every day . It might be supposed that in a climate which must be naturally very humid , the natives would prefer ...
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