But as these schemes are completed by degrees, no one ventures to propose new ones; people have been frightened by the losses and Bankruptcies and frauds brought to light in the collapse, and when some people are afraid, others readily become frightened likewise by sympathy.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
It is comparatively easy to borrow money in January, February, March, June, July, August, and September; October and November are particularly bad months; the rate of interest then often runs up rapidly, and the Bankruptcies in these months are more numerous than at any other time of year.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
At this sheep station where we had encamped, I met with an individual who had seen better days, and had lost his property amid the wreck of colonial Bankruptcies-a tea-totaller, with Pope's Essay on Man for his consolation, in a bark hut.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell