| David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 582 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 578 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 590 pages
...two millions of original stack. In' a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to... | |
| Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Great Britain - 1821 - 304 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days the stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds ; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price...to enhance the price of stock and decoy the unwary, we shall only observe, that, by the promise of prodigious dividends and other infamous arts, the stock... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1822 - 512 pages
...first subscription exceeded two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to 340/.; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1825 - 656 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds ; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that »ere practised to... | |
| South sea bubble - 1825 - 192 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds ; and the subscriptions 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... | |
| 1840 - 494 pages
...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 - Fiction - 1841 - 426 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1844 - 986 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to... | |
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