To show the comparative estimate of that age of science, the fact may be mentioned that the professor of scholastic philosophy in the same university was paid fourteen hundred florins.

At the inn at Nieuweschans [on the borders of Germany and Holland], the cook had one of these golden helmets which had cost about 150 florins.

After her death her son, Anton Polzelli, to receive 150 florins for one year, having always been a good son to his mother and a grateful pupil to me.

But it is said in the city that your prince has given a thousand florins to those whose houses were burned.

She is an aristocrat and she refuses a hundred florins to a nobleman.

He gave a dowry of 2,000 florins to his two nieces, and spent 3,000 florins in rebuilding his Paris house; and lastly, as if he had been a noble, he used a silver seal.

If I lose a thousand florins by the operation, I shall know how to be resigned.

The value of the Wiener Währung fluctuates considerably, but the usual par of exchange is as 2 to 1: that means, two hundred florins Wiener Währung are equal to one hundred Convenzions-Münze or gold and silver money.

He distributed altogether in charity and churches four hundred thousand of those golden coins which were invented by Florence and named florins after hera sum equal to a million pounds of to-day.

The prince offered them sixty thousand florins; but they would have nothing to do with them.

The father took a chair, thrust out his legs like a reigning prince, and proceeded, in a story of unnecessary length, to tell his daughter that he owed one hundred and seventy thousand florins to Signor Rodicaso, and would be a ruined man in forty-eight hours if that sum were not paid.

They produced about thirty million florins a year, independent of five million each for the East and West India companies.

He ordered the duchess of Parma, by a private letter, to immediately cause to be raised three thousand cavalry and ten thousand foot, and he remitted to her for this purpose three hundred thousand florins in gold.

Since last year he has settled on me 600 florins, which, together with the good sale of my works, enables me to live without anxiety.

The devil has taken my hundred florins.

' Thomas thrust a hand into his pocket and brought out a florin, which Mrs. Pritchard pursed with effusive thanks.

In vain did Austria try to win her to its side by bribes of gold (no less than a million florins) and the offer of a noble husband.

The lad griped the fish, as the ancient tradition has it that thy uncle clenched the Holland florin, when my father put it between my fingers, within the month, in order to see if the true saving grace was likely to abide in the family for another generation.

These trinkets they obtain by trade, and the metal resembles the German gold used for coining florins.

The denominations of Dutch money are florins or guldins, and cents; 100 cents equal one florin.

It is related that one Dutch town sold twenty millions of francs' worth of tulips, and that an Amsterdam merchant gained in this trade more than sixty-eight thousand florins in the space of four months.

After giving me every bit of money you hada little over two thousand florins, wasn't it?you showed me a box containing your family jewels, your letters, your diary, your papers, and you said to me: 'Destroy everything it contains.