The South Sea Bubble

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D. O'Connor, 1921 - 265 頁

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第 146 頁 - Gentiles squabble. Here crafty courtiers are too wise For those who trust to fortune; They see the cheat with clearer eyes, Who peep behind the curtain, 3. Our greatest ladies hither come, And ply in chariots daily ; Oft pawn their jewels for a sum, To venture in the Alley.
第 77 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 100 頁 - ... the acting or presuming to act as a corporate body or bodies, the raising or pretending to raise transferable stock or stocks, the transferring or pretending to transfer or assign any share or shares in such stock...
第 18 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, and for encouraging the fishery...
第 249 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 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 66 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 199 頁 - Commons, that they had already discovered a train of the deepest villainy and fraud that hell ever contrived to ruin a nation...
第 100 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 101 頁 - And it is, in and by the said Act, further enacted, ' That if any person in any part of the United Kingdom...

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