...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...

...straw." One very adventurous and ingenious person actually put forth a Company entitled " A Company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." The ingenious gentleman referred to opened a small office one morning, stating in his prospectus that...

...for a wheel for a perpetual motion, and when ingenuity had well nigh exhausted itself, " a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." What it was still remains a mystery, but the ingenious projector pocketed £2000 in five hours, and...

...for a wheel for a perpetual motion, and when ingenuity had well nigh exhausted itself, " a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." What it was still remains a mystery, but the ingenious projector pocketed £2000 in five hours, and...

...subscription of two millions was started for "a promising design to be hereafter promulgated," and another for " carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Even this insolent attempt on the credulity of speculators succeeded. In five hours 2ooo/. were deposited,...

...would seem incredible, but it is vouched for on good authority, that one adventurer started "A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know tc/iat it is," and in one day sold a thousand shares, the deposit on which was £2 per share. He thought...

...actually countenancing and authorising ' the fraudulent and pernicious practice of stock-jobbing.' The Duke of Wharton declared that ' the artificial...marvellous projection it is not to be supposed that the inventors of the last-mentioned scheme had any serious belief in its efficacy. The author of the...

...the planting and rearing of madder to be used by dyers ; 252 A HISTORY OF THE FOUR GEORGES. CH. xi. for the preparing and curing of Virginia tobacco for...marvellous projection it is not to be supposed that the inventors of the last-mentioned scheme had any serious belief in its efficacy. The author of the...

...straw." One very adventurous and ingenious person actually put forth av Company entitled "A Company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." The ingenious gentleman referred to opened a small office one Morning, stating in his prospectus that...

...losses caused by the carelessness of servants," another "for a wheel for perpetual motion," and a third "for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." The South Sea Company prosecuted some of the projectors of these absurd swindles, and their action...