...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...

...one projector, however, who outdid all the rest by a stroke of real genius : he proposed 'a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is' — capital .£500,000, divided into 5000 shares of £100 each, deposit £2 per share. The schemer...

...one projector, however, who outdid all the rest by a stroke of real genius : he proposed ' a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is' — capital £500,000, divided into 5000 shares of £ico each, deposit £2 per share. The schemer opened...

...exceeds any of those referred to by the rhyming satirist. An unknown adventurer started "A Company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." The bold genius who ran this machine stated that the required capital was half a million pounds, in...

...time has gone by when a sharper could clear $10,000 in five hours by selling shares in " a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is 1" It is probably true that our tendencies are not quite so rabid as those of our fathers, but we hold...

...against losses by servants, with fifteen million dollars capital. One scheme was entitled, " A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is—capital two million five hundred thousand dollars, in shares of five hundred each. Further information...

...masters and mistresses the losses they might sustain by servants. One adventurer started " a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Many were duped by this. The prospectus stated that the capital required was half a million ; five...

...advertisement invited speculators to pay £2 as a deposit on each of ti ve thousand £100 shares in "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is," the remaining £1)8 for each share being due in a month's time, when the details of the scheme were...

...pane in Holy'island, two millions. " For buying and selling estates, lending money on mortgages, &c. " For carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it Is. "For paving the « t reels of London, two millions. *' For furnishing funerals to any part of Great...

...time has gone by when a sharper could clear $10,000 in five hours by selling shares in " a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is 1 " It is probably true that our tendencies are not quite so rabid as those of our fathers, but we...