 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 516 pages
...extravagant terms of the contract would never be fulfilled; that the project would only extend the pernicious practice of stock-jobbing, by diverting the genius...exciting a contempt for slow profits and careful economy. He insisted that, if the proposal of the South Sea Company were accepted, the rise of their stock should... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1792 - 950 pages
...extravagant terms of the contract would never be fulfilled; that the project would only extend the pernicious practice of stock-jobbing, by diverting the genius...a- contempt for slow profits and careful economy. He insisted that, if the proposal uf the South Sea Company were accepted, the rise of their stock should... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...and the same proportion for the short annuities. In vain he urged that it countenanced the pernicious practice of stock-jobbing, by diverting the genius of the nation from trade and industry; that it held out a dangerous lure for decoying the unwary to their ruin by a false prospect of gain,... | |
 | Peter Quennell - 1939 - 376 pages
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 | Peter Quennell - 1940 - 292 pages
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... it held out a dangerous lure for decoying the unwary to their ruin by a false prospect of gain, and to part with the gradual profits of their labour for imaginary wealth. 