 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 300 pages
...redncel the nation, was started by an obscure adventurer, and entitled " A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." In his prospectus he simply stated the terms of subscription, and promised that in a month the project... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1862 - 540 pages
...stock-jobbers. Not a few ingenious gentlemen realised handsome fortunes. One projector got up a company for " carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is :" and, having opened an office at ten o'clock in the morning, closed it at three the same afternoon,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pages
...to sell out, leaving the bubble to burst, perhaps, oeit morning. One of the schemes was ' A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is : ' each subscriber, for £2 deposit, to be entitled to £100 per annum per share; of this precious... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - 298 pages
...reduced the nation, was started by an obscure adventurer, and entitled " A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." In his prospectus he simply stated the terms of subscription, and promised that in a month the project... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1865 - 462 pages
...greatest cheats and improbable undertakings that ever the world heard of." Among these, was a " company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is ; every subscriber who deposits two pounds per share to be entitled to one hundred pounds per annum."... | |
 | 1865 - 1452 pages
...stated to be a " promising design hereafter to be promulgated ;" the other a " company for carrying oil 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." The projector of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 348 pages
...won and lost in a very short time. The absurdity of the schemes was monstrous : one was " a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know where it is." In all these bubbles, persons of both sexes alike engaged; the men meeting their brokers... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1866 - 368 pages
...square, and so on. One colossal genius in humbugging actually advertised in these words : — " A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is," The capital he called for was $2,500,000, in shares of $500 each ; deposit on subscribing, $10 per... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1868 - 906 pages
...greatest cheats and improbable undertakings that ever the world heard of." Among these, was a " company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is ; every subscriber who deposits two pounds per share to be entitled to one hundred pounds per annum."... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1869 - 98 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... | |
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A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is. 
