 | Richard Davey - 1906 - 718 lapas
...London with sea-coal. Capital, ^3, 000,000." The most extraordinary scheme of all, however, was "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." The capital of this mysterious concern was to be ^500,000, in five thousand £100 shares, the deposit... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1909 - 360 lapas
...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... | |
 | 1910 - 886 lapas
...saw it 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... | |
 | Sir Charles Grant Robertson - 1911 - 602 lapas
...import 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... | |
 | Cyril Ransome - 1911 - 1122 lapas
...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... | |
 | Walter Edward Weyl - 1912 - 452 lapas
..."for a wheel of perpetual motion," while during the South Sea bubble, men eagerly bought stock in "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." In finance high and low, most men are fools some of the time, and some men are fools all of the time.... | |
 | William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole - 1912 - 610 lapas
...sane 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... | |
 | 1892 - 388 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... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 906 lapas
...quite sure whether the air is fresh. In the days of Bubble Companies there was one formed " to carry on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." And actually there were found hundreds of persons who advanced capital on those conditions. Their folly... | |
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A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is. 
