uprofitable

Updated: May 20, 2025

Although a farmer myself, I always exclaimed against this measure, notwithstanding it did not appear likely that the country would be immediately affected by it, as there was no probability of the price of wheat being much below eighty shillings a quarter during that season. At this period I was fully occupied in a most laborious and uprofitable speculation.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3