 | Tobias Smollett - 1759 - 478 trang
...three hundred and forty pounds ; and the fubfcriptions were fold for double the price of the firft payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the fcandalous arts that were practiced to inhance the value of the ftock, and decoy the unwary, we mall... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 594 trang
...three hundred and forty pounds ; and the fubfcriptions were fold for double the price of the firft payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the fcandalous arts that were pradtifed to enhance the value of the flock, and decoy the unwary, we fhall... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1821 - 304 trang
...such a manner, that the first subscription exceeded two millions of original stock. In a few days the stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds ;...for double the price of the first payment. Without detailing the various scandalous artifices to enhance the price of stock and decoy the unwary, we shall... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 656 trang
...to the house in such a manner, that tbe first subscription exceeded two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred...proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that »ere practised to enhance the value of the stock, and decoy the unwary, we shall only observe, that... | |
 | South sea bubble - 1825 - 192 trang
...to the house in such a manner, that the first subscription exceeded two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred...were sold for double the price of the first payment. In a little time the stock reached one thousand, and the whole nation was infected with the spirit... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1827 - 536 trang
...to the house in such a manner, that the first subscription exceeded two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds 5 and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into... | |
 | 1840 - 494 trang
...first subscription exceeded 2,000,000/. of original stock. In a few days the stock advanced to 340/. and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. In a little time the stock reached 1000/., and the whole nation was infected with the spirit of stock-jobbing... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1841 - 426 trang
...payments, of 60/. each for every 100/. In a few days the stock advanced to three hundred and forty, and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. To raise the stock still higher, it was declared, in a general court of directors, on the 21st of April,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1844 - 986 trang
...to the house in such a manner, that the first subscription exceeded two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred...practised to enhance the value of the stock, and decoy the unturer received a thousand of these subscriptions; and in the evening set out for another kingdom.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 338 trang
...first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous deceits that were practised to enhance the value of the stock...by the promise of prodigious dividends, and other dishonest arts, the price of the shares was raised from one hundred pounds to one thousand, and the... | |
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... capital. Persons of all ranks crowded to the house in such a manner, that the first subscription exceeded two millions of original stack. In... 
