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Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484411202 Category : Languages : en Pages : 320
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Excerpt from John Law, Vol. 2 of 2: The Projector After watching the brave old soldier march out it? Prison, he threw himself into a chair and for a short time was lost in painful thought. He was roused by loud laughter, which sounded discordantly in his ears, and looking in the direction whence it proceeded, his eye fell upon Cossard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484411202 Category : Languages : en Pages : 320
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Excerpt from John Law, Vol. 2 of 2: The Projector After watching the brave old soldier march out it? Prison, he threw himself into a chair and for a short time was lost in painful thought. He was roused by loud laughter, which sounded discordantly in his ears, and looking in the direction whence it proceeded, his eye fell upon Cossard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483717626 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 312
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Excerpt from John Law, Vol. 2: The Projector Mademoiselle de Valois was not a model of beauty, like her sisters, her nose being too large, and a projecting tooth interfering with the form of her mouth. But she was well proportioned, had dove-like eyes, blue tresses like threads of gold, and the ravishingly white skin generally found to accompany locks of that hue. In at tendance upon this princess was the handsome and dissolute Due de Richelieu, so celebrated for his successes, and who at that time was greatly smitten by her attractions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: James Buchan Publisher: MacLehose Press ISBN: 1848666071 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 414
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At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for his arrest. On the continent he lurched from one money-making scheme to the next - selling insurance against losing lottery tickets in Holland, advising the Duke of Savoy - amassing a fortune of some £80,000. But for his next trick he had grander ambitions. When Louis XIV died, leaving a thoroughly bankrupt France to his five-year-old heir, Law gained the ear of the Regent, Philippe D'Orleans. In the years that followed, Law's financial wizardry transformed the fortunes of France, enriching speculators and investors across the continent, and he was made Controller-General of Finances, effectively becoming the French Prime Minister. But the fall from grace that was to follow was every bit as spectacular as his meteoric rise. John Law, by a biographer of Adam Smith and the author of Frozen Desire and Capital of the Mind, dramatises the life of one of the most inventive financiers in history, a man who was born before his time and in whose day the word millionaire came to be coined.
Author: Ross B Emmett Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040243436 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 228
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Periods of euphoria followed by sudden crashes are a familiar phenomenon in economics. Such events have become known as "bubbles". These volumes bring together writings on such phenomena - with works centering upon some of the more colourful examples.
Author: John Shovlin Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300258836 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 423
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A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competition Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a “Second Hundred Years’ War.” Yet officials on both sides also initiated ententes, free trade schemes, and colonial bargains intended to avert future conflict. What drove this quest for a more peaceful order? In this highly original account, John Shovlin reveals the extent to which Britain and France sought to divert their rivalry away from war and into commercial competition. The two powers worked to end future conflict over trade in Spanish America, the Caribbean, and India, and imagined forms of empire-building that would be more collaborative than competitive. They negotiated to cut cross-channel tariffs, recognizing that free trade could foster national power while muting enmity. This account shows that eighteenth-century capitalism drove not only repeated wars and overseas imperialism but spurred political leaders to strive for global stability.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9780526050246 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 308
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