 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1857 - 1038 pages
...being carried into execution. It is an undertaking which, I believe, in point of commercial character, may be deemed to rank among the many bubble schemes...time have been palmed upon gullible capitalists. I have been informed, on what I believe to bo reliable authority, that it is physically impracticable,... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1876 - 380 pages
...that were studiously offensive. "It is an undertaking which I believe in point of commercial character may be deemed to rank among the many bubble schemes...time have been palmed upon gullible capitalists." Further, it was "physically impracticable, except indeed at an expense too great to warrant any expectation... | |
 | Ferdinand de Lesseps - Engineers - 1887 - 336 pages
...into execution. (Hear.) It is an undertaking which, I believe, as regards its commercial character, may be deemed to rank among the many bubble schemes that from time to time have been palmed off upon gullible capitalists. (Hear and a laugh.) I believe that it is physically impracticable, except... | |
 | Werner Freiherr von Grünau - Egypt - 1903 - 360 pages
...being carried into execution. It is an undertaking which, I believe, in point of commercial character, may be deemed to rank among the many bubble schemes...time have been palmed upon gullible capitalists. I have been informed . . . that it is physically impracticable , except at an expense which would be... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1927 - 178 pages
...to prevent the canal being carried out. It was an undertaking that as regards commercial character may be deemed to rank among the many bubble schemes that from time to time have been palmed off on gullible capitalists. It was physically impracticable except at an expense far too great to... | |
 | David Cleland, Roland Gareis - Business & Economics - 2010 - 575 pages
...in other countries. In England, British leaders trashed his plans. A spokesman in England called it "among the many bubble schemes that from time to time have been put on gullible capitalists." Whether this trashing was a reflection of British stupidity, a lack of... | |
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... fifteen years Her Majesty's Government have used all the influence they possess at Constantinople and in Egypt to prevent that scheme from being carried into execution. 