| Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 516 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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,... | |
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