Seton Laing
Published: 2015-07-20
Total Pages: 248
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Excerpt from The Great City Frauds: Of Cole, Davidson, Gordon, Fully Exposed If the moral improvement of a country bore an equal proportion to its material prosperity, we might well pride ourselves on the vast progress which has been made in England, since the commencement of the present century, in all that relates to the development of her industrial and commercial resources. But, unhappily, recent events have only too clearly shown that, the greater the prize within reach of the active and honestly-enterprising, the greater the amount of fraud of which the mercantile world are made the victims, and the greater the number of those who, possessing activity and enterprise in superabundance, resort to the most dishonest means to crown their endeavours. 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.