The South Sea BubbleD. O'Connor, 1921 - 265 頁 |
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第 viii 頁
... brought about the disaster , it would have been bad enough ; but , as a matter of fact , it was far worse . There had been bribery , there had been corruption , there had been robbery as well as jobbery . The reputa- tions of many ...
... brought about the disaster , it would have been bad enough ; but , as a matter of fact , it was far worse . There had been bribery , there had been corruption , there had been robbery as well as jobbery . The reputa- tions of many ...
第 xxii 頁
... brought in on May 18 , 1711 , quickly passed both Houses and received the Royal Assent . In order clearly to understand the scheme , it is necessary to print the principal clauses of the Bill : - To the intent that the trade to the ...
... brought in on May 18 , 1711 , quickly passed both Houses and received the Royal Assent . In order clearly to understand the scheme , it is necessary to print the principal clauses of the Bill : - To the intent that the trade to the ...
第 3 頁
... brought into , this King- dom , and the employment of the poor , that a trade should be carried on to the South Seas and other parts of America , herein- after mentioned , which cannot so securely and so successfully be begun and ...
... brought into , this King- dom , and the employment of the poor , that a trade should be carried on to the South Seas and other parts of America , herein- after mentioned , which cannot so securely and so successfully be begun and ...
第 13 頁
... brought to lay open the trade of their Indies to the English , or indeed to any nation in the world . Perhaps they might be brought to admit a trade to particular places for provisions , fish , corn , or such things as they may more ...
... brought to lay open the trade of their Indies to the English , or indeed to any nation in the world . Perhaps they might be brought to admit a trade to particular places for provisions , fish , corn , or such things as they may more ...
第 32 頁
... brought to an abrupt conclusion in April , 1694 , when he killed ' Beau ' Wilson in a duel . He was convicted of murder , and sentenced to death , but contrived to escape abroad . At Amster- dam he studied finance , and when he returned ...
... brought to an abrupt conclusion in April , 1694 , when he killed ' Beau ' Wilson in a duel . He was convicted of murder , and sentenced to death , but contrived to escape abroad . At Amster- dam he studied finance , and when he returned ...
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affairs Aislabie annuities annum Bank of England Bill Britain Brodrick brought bubbles capital stock Carlisle carrying cent Chancellor charter Committee Company's corporation Coxe's Memoirs Craggs the elder Daniel Pulteney declared Duke Edward Harley effectual estates Exchange Alley Exchequer February Fishery fools France give Governor Harley wrote House of Commons Insurance interest irredeemable James Craggs John Aislabie King Knight lands letter London Long Annuities Lord Oxford Lord Sunderland Lottery Majesty Majesty's matter Matthew Decker Memoirs of Sir ment merchants Middleton Papers Molesworth Money-Subscription National Debt Nicholas Lechmere Parliament payment persons Petition Portland MSS profit projectors proposal proprietors public credit public debts Pulteney purchase quoted in Coxe's raise Royal ruin secure share ships Sir Robert Walpole South Sea Company South Sea Directors South Sea scheme South Sea stock Spain Spanish Stanhope stock-jobbing Sub-Governor subscribers subscription Thomas trade William Windham wrote to Lord
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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...