 | David Hughson - 1805 - 702 trang
...an hundred pounds, for every hundred which he chose to subscribe. In one forenoon, this undertaker received a thousand of these subscriptions ; and in the evening set out for another kingdom, leaving the subscribers to carry on the project in the best manner they were able. The king, before... | |
 | David Hughson - 1805 - 710 trang
...an hundred pounds, for every hundred which he chose to subscribe. In one forenoon, this undertaker received a thousand of these subscriptions ; and in the evening set out for another kingdom, leaving the subscribers to carry on the project in the best manner they were able. The king, before... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 582 trang
...project should be disclosed. In the mean time he declared that every person paying two guineas should be entitled to a subscription for one hundred pounds,...kingdom. The king, before his departure, had issued a 2n proclamation against these unlawful projects ; the lords justices afterwards dismissed all the petitions... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 590 trang
...project should be disclosed. In the mean time he declared that every person paying two guineas should be entitled to a subscription for one hundred pounds, which would produce that sum yearly. In one fyrenoon this adventurer received a thousand of these subscriptions ; and in the evening set out for... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1821 - 304 trang
...he declared that every person paying two guineas should he entitled to a subscription of „£'100, which would produce that sum yearly. In one forenoon...adventurer received a thousand of these subscriptions, amounting to two thousand guineas, and in the evening left the kingdom. Howheit the delusion began... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1822 - 512 trang
...meantime, he declared that every person paying two guineas should be entitled to a subscription for 100/. which would produce that sum yearly. In one. forenoon...proclamation against these unlawful projects; the lords-justices afterward dismissed all the petitions that had been presented for charters and patents;... | |
 | 1844 - 454 trang
...should be entitled to a subscription of 100/., which would produce that sum yearly ; in one forenoon the adventurer received a thousand of these subscriptions, and in the evening set out for another kingdom." These delusions eventually became the subjects of general ridicule, and it is worthy of remark that... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 656 trang
...project should be disclosed. In the mean time he declared that every person paying two guineas should Ы; entitled to a subscription for one hundred pounds,...proclamation against these unlawful projects ; the lords ustices afterwards dismissed all the petitions :hat had been presented for charters and patents ; and... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 512 trang
...meantime, he declared that every person paying two guineas should be entitled to a subscription for 100/. which would produce that sum yearly. In one forenoon...proclamation against these unlawful projects ; the lords-justices afterward dismissed all the petitions that had been presented for charters and patents;... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 trang
...project should be disclosed. In the meantime he declared, that every person paying two guineas should be entitled to a subscription for one hundred pounds,...these subscriptions ; and in the evening set out, with his two thousand guineas in his pocket, for another kingdom. During the infatuation produced by... | |
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In the mean time he declared that every person paying two guineas should be entitled to a subscription for one hundred pounds, which would produce that sum yearly. In one forenoon this adventurer received a thousand of these subscriptions ; and in the... 
