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accident Act of Parliament afford agent altogether amount annual annuity application assist Assurance society ATLAS become benefit blessings brother brother's keeper called CHAPTER character cial circumstances city of Glasgow comfort considered continued death deferred annuity depend disappointment duty economy effecting an assurance employed endeavoured evil example exer favourable feelings friendly society friends Glasgow happy heart honour hundred husband importance improvement individual industrial classes insure interest labour lives London Maps means ment mind moral Morocco mother nearest and dearest object orphan Paisley parent payment period perseverance person portunity position pounds practice premium present principle of Assurance prosperity prudence purpose railway reader reason reference require respectable savings banks Scotland secure Security Savings Bank shillings shopkeeper sisters social surance temporal thousand tical tion Tontine United Kingdom week weekly widow wife wives word young yourselves
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Page 11 - Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Page 41 - WHAT might be done if men were wise— What glorious deeds, my suffering brother, Would they unite, In love and right, And cease their scorn of one another ? Oppression's heart might be imbued With kindling drops of loving-kindness, And knowledge pour, From shore to shore, Light on the eyes of mental blindness. All slavery, warfare, lies, and wrongs, All vice and crime might...
Page 77 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 143 - I felt there was no fear of him ; and the ninth week when he came home to me, I had this table bought and these six chairs ; one for myself, four for the children, and one for himself. And I was dressed in a new gown, and the children all had new clothes, and shoes and stockings, and upon his...
Page 142 - Cork: a woman was knitting stockings at the door; it was as neat and comfortable as any in the most prosperous district of England. We tell her brief story in her own words, as nearly as we can recall them: — " My husband is a wheelwright, and always earned his guinea a week; he was a good workman...
Page 143 - I'd saved out of his wages, not knowing what might happen, and that always before went for drink. And he cried, good lady and good gentleman, he cried like a baby — but 'twas with thanks to God ; and now where's the healthier man than my husband in the County Cork ; or a happier wife than myself; or dacenter or better fed children than our own four?
Page 104 - Great God ! on what a slender thread Hang everlasting things ! The eternal state of all the dead Upon life's feeble strings.
Page 57 - The keeping back such circumstance is fraud, and therefore the policy is void. Although the suppression should happen through mistake without any fraudulent intention, yet still the underwriter is deceived, and the policy is void ; because the risk run is really different from the risk understood and intended to be run at the time of the agreement.
Page 48 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 34 - Anxiety is the Poison of Human Life It is the Parent of many Sins and of more Miseries...