 | William Cobbett - 1811 - 678 pages
...general infatuation or thirst of gain was, appears from the following instance: A proposal was offered ' For carrying ' on an undertaking of great advantage, but ' nobody to know what it is.' The projector formed a scheme for half a million, by which every subscriber, paying down two guineas... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 514 pages
...ought to instruct you. 'I will mention one of them. A proposal, after many others, at last appeared " for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it was." The scheme was for half a million, and every subscriber, upon first paying two guineas, as a... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1841 - 426 pages
...other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled "A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that any... | |
 | Benjamin Love - 1842 - 328 pages
...other the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, intituled, ' A Company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.' Were not the fact confirmed by scores of creditable witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that... | |
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled ' Jl company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.' Were not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that any... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled, " A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Were not the 196 THE BLIND PAUPER. fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible... | |
 | 1847 - 640 pages
...millions and a half to ' a promising design hereafter to be promulgated. ' A third was a ' Company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage ; but nobody to know what it is; every subscriber who deposits 21. per share, to be entitled to 100/. per annum.' Even this insolent... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...church lands, and for repairing and rebuilding parsonage and vicarage houses." " For trading in hair." " For carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is"! " For furnishing funerals to any part of Great Britain." " For insuring horses — capital two millions."... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 pages
...walnut-trees from Virginia; one for converting quicksilver into a fine malleable metal ; and one " for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is ;" the artful sharper who started this last scheme received nearly one thousand deposits of 21. per... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 432 pages
...could not be recited here without exciting an unbecoming merriment. One of them was styled, " A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." The projector of this bold appeal to the public credulity, required a deposit of £2 on each share... | |
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A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is. 
