...present money value. The wildest ideas prevailed, such as, " For supplying London with sea coal," — "For carrying on an undertaking of great advantage ; but nobody to know what it is,"! " For insuring from thefts and robberies." In France also, similar scenes were enacted with the Mississippi...

...present money value. The wildest ideas prevailed, such as, " For supplying London with sea coal," — "For carrying on an undertaking of great advantage ; but nobody to know what it is,"! " For insuring from thefts and robberies." In France also, similar scenes were enacted with the Mississippi...

...quicksilver into a malleable fine metal,' etc., etc. : but the most marvellous of all was ' A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.' The prospectus merely stated that the capital was half a million in 5000 shares of £100 each, deposit...

...Fire Insurance scheme bearing the title of Globe. The perfection of schemes seems to have been one " For carrying on an Undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is ! " Lawson plainly indicates that it was the apparent success of the South Sea scheme which brought...

...illustration of the public's greed for speculation was the work of an individual who advertised " A Company for carrying on an Undertaking of Great Advantage, but Nobody to know What It Is. Capital, ,£500,000, in five thousand shares of .£100 each, each share paying ,£100 per annum." A...

...million dollars capital for a "wheel for perpetual motion." An unknown adventurer started "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Next morning this great man opened an office in Cornhill, and before three o'clock one thousand shares...

...third to fit out vessels for the suppression of piracy. But perhaps the most absurd was " a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Near their highest point the South Sea Shares were sold at ^890, but so many wanted to sell at that...

...were at a premium of two thousand per cent. One projector had the effrontery to announce 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." This enterprising...

...premium of two thousand per cent. One projector had the effrontery to announce a " Company for carryingon 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." This enterprising...

...sawdust; and one enterprising rascal, confident in the gullibility of the times, started a company 'for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.' Even for this last mad project £2000 was subscribed in cash, and then the company-promoter disappeared,...