 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1811 - 682 páginas
...general infatuation or thirst of gain was, appears, from the following instance: A proposal was offered ' For carrying ' on an undertaking of great advantage, but ' nobody to know what it is.' The projector formed a scheme for half a million, by which every subscriber, paying down two guineas for... | |
 | 1869 - 762 páginas
...intended for a joke or not, a certain man of business established a company (consisting of himself) "for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." There were 5,000 shares of £ltiO each ; the yearly dividends were to be £100 per share, and at first... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 514 páginas
...ought to instruct you. 'I will mention one of them. A proposal, after many others, at last appeared " for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it was." The scheme was for half a million, and every subscriber, upon first paying two guineas, as a... | |
 | 1843 - 488 páginas
...than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled, " A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Were not the ' All people that on earth do dwell Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice ; Him serve with... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1850 - 776 páginas
...than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled " A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that any... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1850 - 400 páginas
...than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled " A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that any... | |
 | Eastern counties railway - 1851 - 72 páginas
...subscribing two millions and a half to 'a premising design hereafter to be promulgated.' A third was a ' Company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is ; every subscriber who deposits £2. per share, to be entitled to £100. per annum.' Even this insolent... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 650 páginas
...now almost passing belief. An advertisement was issued by some unknown adventurer, entitled—' for a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to Unow what it is.' This master-stroke of impudence, incredible as it seems, was successful. The adventurer... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1852 - 322 páginas
...than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled " A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that any... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1852 - 334 páginas
...than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled " A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that any... | |
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A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is. 
