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Title: The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money

Author: John Thomson

Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29582]

Language: English

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original book published in 1732 have been retained.

THE

TRICKS

OF

THE TOWN:

OR,

WAYS and MEANS

for getting _MONEY_.

WHEREIN

The various LURES, WILES, and ARTIFICES,
practised by the Designing and Crafty upon
the Weak and Unwary, are fully exposed.

Recommended to the serious Perusal of all
ADVENTURERS and SHARERS in _Bubble-Undertakings_, the
PURSUERS of _Pennyworths_, and _Bargain-Buyers_.

Chiefly collected from some Papers of the
Ingenious Mr. JOHN THOMSON,
scattered between _Laurence-Pountney's-Hill_ and _Dover_.

_LONDON_:

Printed for J. ROBERTS, near the
_Oxford-Arms_ in _Warwick-Lane_: And sold by the
Booksellers of _London_ and _Westminster_. 1732.
(Price One Shilling.)

* * * * *

THE

TRICKS of the TOWN;

OR

DIAMONDS _cut_ DIAMONDS.

My Son get Money, said a wiser Man than you or I, honest Reader: That
is the Precept; but he went no farther, leaving the Business of
_Committee Men_, _Ways and Means_, &c. to the peculiar Turn of
Thought, or Biass of Invention of every individual _Money-Getter_. Of
all the Methods made use of to