...each, — the stock had to be paid for in addition to this. There was another, entitled ' 'A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Mackay (I, 88) says he is following scores of credible witnesses when he states that even so palpable...

...Holland, with John Law in Paris, and in London with the South Sea Company, when shares were offered in " an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is," and in five hours the promoter was entrusted with £2000, but was afterwards seen no more. Such a reversion...

...go to pieces in a single year. At the same time they bought (at high prices) the shares of a company "for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is"; and $5,000,000 of stock "for a wheel for perpetual motion." Again, in 1825, a similar madness overwhelmed...

...Companies, carelessness of servants ' ; another ' for a wheel for perpetual motion ' ; and a fourth for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is. As chairmen of the companies appeared the names of dukes and earls, and even the Prince of Wales came...

...Spanish jackasses for unspecified purposes to unsuitable regions found ready investors. Even "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is" obtained 1000 subscriptions. South Sea Stock touched its highest price, £1060, on June 25th. But the...

...times would be stamped as obviously fraudulent Such was a prospectus for the formation of 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 prospectus...

...simpler device was imagined by a gentleman whose name (alas !) is not known. He propounded a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, " but nobody to know what it is." The capital of E 2 this singular undertaking was to be a mere fleabite — half a million pounds in...

...Spanish jackasses for unspecified purposes to unsuitable regions found ready investors. Even "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is" obtained 1000 subscriptions. South Sea Stock touched its highest price, .£1060, on June 25th. But...

...at that time may be realised when we find amongst the bogus concerns floated during the boom " one for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage but nobody to know what it is." On the brickwork of the building you will see one of the old firemarks of the Guardian Insurance Company....

...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...