The South Sea BubbleSmall, Maynard, 1923 - 265 頁 |
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affairs Aislabie annum Arthur Arthur Onslow assiento Bank of England Bill Britain Brodrick brought bubble capital stock cent Chancellor Charles charter Company's corporation Court Coxe's Memoirs Craggs the elder Craggs the younger Daniel Pulteney declared Earl of Oxford East India Company Edward Harley effectual estates Exchange Alley Exchequer February Fishery fools give Governor honour House of Commons interest James Craggs John Aislabie King Knight Lady Lechmere letter London Lord Oxford Lord Sunderland Majesty Majesty's matter Matthew Decker Memoirs of Sir ment merchant Middleton Papers Molesworth Money-Subscription Nicholas Lechmere Parliament payment persons Portland MSS profit proposal proprietors public credit public debts Pulteney purchase quoted in Coxe's raised Royal ruin secure share ships Sir Robert Walpole sold South Sea Company South Sea Directors South Sea scheme South Sea stock Spain stock-jobbing Sub-Governor subscribers Thomas thought trade William wrote to Lord
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第 79 頁 - Subscribers here by thousands float, And jostle one another down ; Each paddling in his leaky boat, And here they fish for gold, and drown. " * Now buried in the depth below, Now mounted up to Heaven again, They reel and stagger to and fro, At their wits
第 37 頁 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America...
第 79 頁 - At their wits end, like drunken men." Mean time secure on Garraway f cliffs, A savage race, by shipwrecks fed, Lie waiting for the founder'd skiffs, And strip the bodies of the dead.
第 10 頁 - The long passages hung with buckets, appended, in idle row, to walls, whose substance might defy any, short of the last, conflagration: with vast ranges of cellarage under all, where dollars and pieces of eight once lay, an "unsunned heap...
第 251 頁 - The common calamity, occasioned by the wicked execution of the South Sea scheme, was become so very great before your meeting, that the providing proper remedies for it was very difficult; but it is a great comfort to me to observe, that public credit now begins to recover : which gives me the greatest hopes that it will be entirely restored, when all the provisions you have made for that end, shall be duly put in execution.
第 68 頁 - I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
第 197 頁 - Commons, that they had already discovered a train of the deepest villainy and fraud that hell ever contrived to ruin a nation...
第 102 頁 - ... of such stock, not intended or designed by such charter to be raised or transferred, and all acting or pretending to act under any obsolete charter become void or voidable by nonuser or abuser, or for want of making lawful elections, which were necessary to continue the corporation...
第 147 頁 - What need have we of Indian wealth, Or commerce with our neighbours! Our Constitution is in health; And riches crown our labours! Our South Sea ships have golden shrouds! They bring us wealth, 'tis granted: But lodge their treasure in the clouds, To hide it, till it 's wanted!
第 103 頁 - And it is, in and by the said Act, further enacted, ' That if any person in any part of the United Kingdom...