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" ... capital. Persons of all ranks crowded to the house in such a manner, that the first subscription exceeded two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds; and the subscriptions were sold for double... "
England's Greatness: Its Rise and Progress in Government, Laws, Religion ... - Page 380
by John Wade - 1856 - 815 pages
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cęsar, to the ..., Volume 9

David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 582 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to...
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The History of England: From the Revolution to the Death of George the ...

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 578 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to...
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The History of England: From the Revolution to the Death of George the ...

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 590 pages
...two millions of original stack. In' a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to...
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The Chronicle of the Kings of England: From William the Norman to the Death ...

Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Great Britain - 1821 - 304 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days the stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds ; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price...to enhance the price of stock and decoy the unwary, we shall only observe, that, by the promise of prodigious dividends and other infamous arts, the stock...
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The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George ...

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1822 - 512 pages
...first subscription exceeded two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to 340/.; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to...
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The History of England, from the Revolution of 1688, to the Death of George ...

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1825 - 656 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds ; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that »ere practised to...
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The South sea bubble, and the numerous fraudulent projects to which it gave ...

South sea bubble - 1825 - 192 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds ; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. In a little time the stock reached one thousand, and the whole nation was infected with the spirit...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 7

1840 - 494 pages
...first subscription exceeded 2,000,000/. of original stock. In a few days the stock advanced to 340/. and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. In a little time the stock reached 1000/., and the whole nation was infected with the spirit of stock-jobbing...
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Volume 1

Charles Mackay - Fiction - 1841 - 426 pages
...payments, of 60/. each for every 100/. In a few days the stock advanced to three hundred and forty, and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment. To raise the stock still higher, it was declared, in a general court of directors, on the 21st of April,...
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The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George ...

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1844 - 986 pages
...two millions of original stock. In a few days this stock advanced to three hundred and forty pounds; and the subscriptions were sold for double the price of the first payment Without entering into a detail of the proceedings, or explaining the scandalous arts that were practised to...
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