A company is formed; that company puts out a prospectus; the promoters expect to raise a certain fund as capital stock.

As early as March, 1860, Spencer issued a prospectus, in which he set forth the general aim and scope of a series of works which were to be issued in periodical parts, and would, collectively, constitute a system of philosophy.

" A friend sends me a prospectus for a paper under the title of "Washington Republican," which has just been established at the seat of government, earnestly advocating the election of John C. Calhoun for the presidency in 1824.

Oh yes, I got a prospectus of some company from the city the other day; and whose name should there be upon the list of directors but Reginald Harrington Lind's!

I went into his room to look at some plans and papershe gave me some prospectuses which are in that bag there just now-I was reading them over again only this evening.

He presented a carefully prepared prospectus showing an estimated earning capacity of the projected line of one hundred dollars per day.

The pier of Calais is, in fact, every thing that it need be, and what perhaps no other pier is; and yet it is nothing more than a piece of serviceable carpentery, that must have cost about as much, perhaps, as to print the prospectuses of some of the late undertakings, and pay the advertisements and the lawyer's bill.

On the sixteenth, I received a prospectus through my concierge.

[Mr. Punch has been fortunate enough to secure in advance a prospectus of the enterprising managements.]

Aren't you going to have a flutter?' He showed me a seductive little prospectus.

They'll simply pass the pick over to the fellow who invests, and start a new prospectus.

I did not quite understand the prospectus.

But in 1745 appeared the prospectus of his most laborious undertaking, the "English Dictionary."

"This," he said, "is not profit; it is the realisation of property."] Take a patch of land in Africa and multiply by ten, Then extract a ton of metal from an ounce or two of sand; Write a roseate prospectus with a magnifying pen, Making deserts flow with honey in a rich and smiling land.

He went through galleries, churches and museums in a stolid silence like his daughter's; but in the hotels he never ceased to enquire and investigate, questioning every one who could speak English, comparing bills, collecting prospectuses and computing the cost of construction and the probable return on the investment.

" She consulted a prospectus of the Holy Innocents, extorted from Mrs. Huggins.