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id: 713
title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
author: Mackay, Charles
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  then, your war-cry in the combat, for those words came forth from God. Let the army of the Lord when it rushes upon His enemies shout but that short time, an army was raised amounting to two hundred thousand men. men, besides a great number of women who followed their husbands and gave great offence to the King of France, who became from that time Most persons said the number of these demons was so great that they witches to raise evil spirits--shed blood like water--taken the lives In the mean time, accusations of witchcraft spread rapidly in France, persons by thousands as guilty of this crime." In the same year, Sir number of persons brought to trial was about forty a day. condemned a number of women to death, in the year 1670, on the old day-time, and was seen by a whole room full of people.


id: 1903
author: Cotton, William, F.S.A., of Exeter
title:
  Everybody's Guide to Money Matters With a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein


id: 884
title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
author: Mackay, Charles
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  Seventeenth Century.--De Lisle.--Albert Aluys.--Count de St. Germains.--Cagliostro.--Present State of the Science. manner, lost from this time till the eighth century, when it appeared gather the opinions of philosophers upon the great secrets of nature. year 1245, and studied medicine with great success in the University of years in Paris, and made great wealth by killing and curing, and telling physician, a great philosopher, and a successful alchymist. acquainted with the great secret of the philosopher''s stone. no secret of his wonderful powers; having, it is said, performed who has wasted fifty years of his life in this great study, brought me of the philosopher''s stone, I deemed it impossible, for a long time; and last of the great pretenders to the philosopher''s stone and the water A little time, great fortune that time, Animal Magnetism, or, as some called it, Mesmerism, became time; but I cannot turn my eyes from the spirits; they are in magnetic


id: 636
title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
author: Mackay, Charles
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  life of its great author, John Law. Historians are divided in opinion as made for the fifty thousand new shares, and Law''s house in the Rue de in the streets for hours every day before Mr. Law''s door to know the The crowds around the bank were so great, that hardly a day years the South Sea Company''s stock was in high favour. It is time, however, to return to the great South Sea gulf, that At a general court of the Bank of England held two days afterwards, the having lent out great sums upon South Sea stock were obliged to shut up there was no law to punish the directors of the South Sea Company, who court of the South Sea Company, or set aside by due course of law. House of Parliament, during such time as the South Sea Bill was yet "A great man shall come into England,


id: 34463
title: How to Invest Money
author: Henry, George Garr
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  chapters railroad bonds, real-estate mortgages, industrial, A railroad bond is an obligation of a railroad company (usually secured bond, based on a given security, will sell at a widely different price par value of the bond instead of on the actual money invested. principal invested in railroad bonds; the following points affect the Railroad bonds as a class possess great promise of appreciation in well-selected railroad bonds, if purchased under favorable money-market security equal or superior to that of any other form of railroad bonds. general rule, the net return on the equipment bonds of a given railroad In the same way, equipment bonds vary as to stability of market price. of equipment bonds to the usual requirements of a business surplus. money-market conditions, railroad bonds advance with an increase in the considering the purchase of an industrial bond is the value of the real security, municipal bonds are controlled by market conditions, and their


id: 44052
title: Profitable Stock Exchange Investments
author: Henry Voorce Brandenburg & Co.
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  You read a great deal about the money lost in Wall Street. profitable investment in Wall Street, and have their money handled for The men who win in Wall Street are those who invest in stocks--good, dividend-paying stocks, buying them when they are low, selling them In all classes of business we buy at a certain price, and sell at a _The men who make the money in Wall Street are those who know what stocks are really worth and who buy when prices, go down and sell when which Wall Street stocks can be dealt in with absolute safety and Of course, no man or company could purchase one hundred shares of stock The fluctuations in the prices of good, dividend paying stocks are In Wall Street you may buy or sell one or more shares of the stock of A speculator who buys expecting to sell at a higher price.


