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Excerpta Et Collectanea.
EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA .
-II . ^ EC SPARSA COEGI . . FLORIMANIAi IT is almost impossible to believe the extraordinary fondness whicli the natives of Holland and France had for flowers ; and , though , the rage is now extinctit cannot be unentertaining to shew the extent
, to which their partiality for flowers led them . - In 16 3 6 , at Haerlem , a flower , to which they had given the fine name of semper augustus , was sold for four thousand six hundred florins , a beautiful new carriage , and two horses with harness . Another person gave thirteen thousand florins for a flower of the same kind .
For a tulip root , two hundred square perches of land were given .-One , who possessed a yearly rent of sixty thousand florins , reduced himself to beggary , in the short space of four months , by purchasing of floWers . . This rage for flowers was carried to such extent , that , in three yearsthe traffic of them yielded in one city in Holland ten millions
, sterling 1 . 11 The States then issued a proclamation , to suppress such destructive and dishonest commerce . The prices given for flowers in France were nearly as extravagant ; but the rage soon gave way to some other fashion , without the interposition of government . _ -
¦ FONDNESS OV THE ARABIANS FOR THEIR HORSES ; A poor Arab of the Desert had a most beautiful mare ; it Was all his fortune . The French consul , who was at Sidon , offered to buy it , with the intention of sending it to Louis XIV . The Arab , pressed by necessity , demurred for some time , but , at length , consented to part with itat a very enormous price . The consul would not
ven-, ture tp give . so large a sum of money without permission ; for which he wrote to Versailles , and obtained it . He then sent for the Arab , who came immediately , mounted on his handsome horse , and the consul counted out the money to him which he asked . The Arab , with only a broken mat for his covering , alighted , looked at-the money , then cast his eyes towards the marefetched a deep sihand
, g , exclaimed , ' Oh ! am I going to part with you . and to Europeans , who will confine you , beat you , and make you unhappy ? No , you . shall return with me , my beauty , my heart , my soul , my life , and be the joy of rirychildren . ' After saying these words , he remounted , p . nd galloped away . " " .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Excerpta Et Collectanea.
EXCERPTA ET COLLECTANEA .
-II . ^ EC SPARSA COEGI . . FLORIMANIAi IT is almost impossible to believe the extraordinary fondness whicli the natives of Holland and France had for flowers ; and , though , the rage is now extinctit cannot be unentertaining to shew the extent
, to which their partiality for flowers led them . - In 16 3 6 , at Haerlem , a flower , to which they had given the fine name of semper augustus , was sold for four thousand six hundred florins , a beautiful new carriage , and two horses with harness . Another person gave thirteen thousand florins for a flower of the same kind .
For a tulip root , two hundred square perches of land were given .-One , who possessed a yearly rent of sixty thousand florins , reduced himself to beggary , in the short space of four months , by purchasing of floWers . . This rage for flowers was carried to such extent , that , in three yearsthe traffic of them yielded in one city in Holland ten millions
, sterling 1 . 11 The States then issued a proclamation , to suppress such destructive and dishonest commerce . The prices given for flowers in France were nearly as extravagant ; but the rage soon gave way to some other fashion , without the interposition of government . _ -
¦ FONDNESS OV THE ARABIANS FOR THEIR HORSES ; A poor Arab of the Desert had a most beautiful mare ; it Was all his fortune . The French consul , who was at Sidon , offered to buy it , with the intention of sending it to Louis XIV . The Arab , pressed by necessity , demurred for some time , but , at length , consented to part with itat a very enormous price . The consul would not
ven-, ture tp give . so large a sum of money without permission ; for which he wrote to Versailles , and obtained it . He then sent for the Arab , who came immediately , mounted on his handsome horse , and the consul counted out the money to him which he asked . The Arab , with only a broken mat for his covering , alighted , looked at-the money , then cast his eyes towards the marefetched a deep sihand
, g , exclaimed , ' Oh ! am I going to part with you . and to Europeans , who will confine you , beat you , and make you unhappy ? No , you . shall return with me , my beauty , my heart , my soul , my life , and be the joy of rirychildren . ' After saying these words , he remounted , p . nd galloped away . " " .