 | Cyril Ransome - 1887 - 532 lapas
...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... | |
 | Thomas H. de Lambert de St. Bris - 1888 - 162 lapas
...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... | |
 | Scottish History Society - 1892 - 386 lapas
...transmutation of 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... | |
 | Thomas H. Lambert - 1892 - 270 lapas
...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... | |
 | Francis Boyer Relton - 1893 - 610 lapas
...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... | |
 | 1895 - 630 lapas
...happiest 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... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1896 - 438 lapas
...with five 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... | |
 | Benjamin Bannister Turner - 1897 - 336 lapas
...companies' shares 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... | |
 | Benjamin Bannister Turner - 1897 - 330 lapas
...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... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1873 - 610 lapas
...than any other the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled, 1A Company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to knmv what it is.' Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible... | |
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A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is. 
