 | B. Lambert - 1806 - 616 pages
...place, on Tuesday next, books will be opened for a subscription of two millions, for the invention of melting down saw-dust and chips, and casting them...into clean deal boards, without cracks or knots!" About this time, the plague raging violently at Marseilles, in France, the parliament, fearful it should... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1808 - 456 pages
...place, on Tuesday next, looks will be opi-iiedfor a. subscription of two millions for the invention of melting down saw-dust and chips, and casting them...into clean deal boards, without cracks or knots?' : In fact, the author whom we have just quoted, enumerates considerably more than two hundred of the... | |
 | Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1808 - 418 pages
...place, on Tuesday next, loaks wilt be opened for a sid>scription of two millions for I lie invention of melting down saw-dust and chips, and casting them into clean deal boards, without cracks or knot1;!" .- '•-.<••• . ...; In fact, the author whom we 'have just quoted, enumerates considerably... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1810 - 772 pages
...and the humourist who advertized proposals for raising a subscription of 2,000,0001. for the purpose of " melting down saw-dust and chips, and casting them into clean deal hoards, without cracks or knots!" can hardly be said to have caricatured the undisguised chicanery... | |
 | South sea bubble - 1825 - 192 pages
...place, on Tuesday next, " books will be opened for a subscription of " two millions, for the invention of melting " down saw-dust and chips, and casting...into clean deal boards, without cracks or " knots !" Before we return to the remainder of the execution of the grand South Sea scheme, we shall, as a... | |
 | 1826 - 384 pages
...books will be opened for a subscription of two millions, for the invention of melting down saw dust and chips, and casting them into clean deal boards, without cracks or knots." As a memento of the folly of the age, we insert the names of a few of these projects, on every one... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1838 - 520 pages
...in a mock proposal which was circulated at the time in ridicule of the rest, — " For the Invention of melting down Saw-dust and " Chips, and casting...clean Deal Boards " without Cracks or Knots ! " Such extravagancies mightwell provoke laughter ; but, unhappily, though the farce came first, there * Macpherson's... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1837 - 522 pages
...in a mock proposal which was circulated at the time in ridicule of the rest, — " For the Invention of melting down Saw-dust and " Chips, and casting...clean Deal Boards " without Cracks or Knots ! " Such extravagancies might well provoke laughter ; but, unhappily, though the farce came first, there * Macpherson's... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1837 - 496 pages
...in a mock proposal which was circulated at the time in ridicule of the rest, — " For the Invention of melting down Saw-dust and " Chips, and casting...clean Deal Boards " without Cracks or Knots ! " Such extravagancies mightwell provoke laughter ; but, unhappily, though the farce came first, there * Macpherson's... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1837 - 494 pages
..." Chips, and casting them into clean Deal Boards " without Cracks or Knots ! " Such extravagancies might well provoke laughter; but, unhappily, though the farce came first, there * Macpherson's Hist. of Commerce, vol. iii. p. 90. ed. 1805. Mr. Hutcheson observes, " To speak in... | |
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I can scarcely see any difference or exaggeration in a mock proposal which was circulated at the time in ridicule of the rest. " For the " Invention of melting down Saw-dust and Chips, " and casting them into clean Deal Boards without 
