The Quarterly Review, Volume 128John Murray, 1870 - English literature |
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... practice of granting assurances on lives , based on actual experience or something approaching to it , was first adopted in this country . Tables of mortality , showing the pro- bable duration of life at different ages , were prepared ...
... practice of granting assurances on lives , based on actual experience or something approaching to it , was first adopted in this country . Tables of mortality , showing the pro- bable duration of life at different ages , were prepared ...
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... practice of Life Assurance , the question has arisen * Art . Workmen's Benefit Societies .'- Quarterly Review , No. 232 . The magnitude of Life Assurance interests may be inferred from the fact that the total amount insured by existing ...
... practice of Life Assurance , the question has arisen * Art . Workmen's Benefit Societies .'- Quarterly Review , No. 232 . The magnitude of Life Assurance interests may be inferred from the fact that the total amount insured by existing ...
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... practice of Life Assurance . Every consideration was accordingly given to the statements of those whose evidence favoured this view , and who urged the expediency of giving free scope to competition by facilitating the establishment of ...
... practice of Life Assurance . Every consideration was accordingly given to the statements of those whose evidence favoured this view , and who urged the expediency of giving free scope to competition by facilitating the establishment of ...
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... practice in making the valuations ; for a higher rate of interest may be assumed in valuing the premiums than pru- dence would dictate , while the ' loading ' may also be encroached upon for the purpose of swelling the declared surplus ...
... practice in making the valuations ; for a higher rate of interest may be assumed in valuing the premiums than pru- dence would dictate , while the ' loading ' may also be encroached upon for the purpose of swelling the declared surplus ...
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... half to see his blunder ; this makes it all the more odd that he should have allowed the passage in the text to stand . men's men's moral practice ? Why did the Roman Empire , 58 Mr. Lecky's History of European Morals .
... half to see his blunder ; this makes it all the more odd that he should have allowed the passage in the text to stand . men's men's moral practice ? Why did the Roman Empire , 58 Mr. Lecky's History of European Morals .
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Page 383 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 386 - Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
Page 336 - It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good speaks to him for ever out of his English bible It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a protestant with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon bible...
Page 455 - Till the last trumpet ; for charitable prayers, Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her : Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants, Her maiden strewments and the bringing home Of bell and burial.
Page 10 - And thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 10 - Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I saw the least of little stars Down on the waste, and straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city and all her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl — No larger, tho...
Page 331 - Bible: Tindale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva. 15. Besides the said directors before mentioned, three or four of the most ancient and grave divines in either of the universities, not employed in translating, to be assigned by the Vice-Chancellor upon conference with the rest of the Heads to be overseers of the translations, as well Hebrew as Greek, for the better observation of the fourth rule above specified.
Page 13 - Of ever-shifting sand, and far away The phantom circle of a moaning sea. There the pursuer could pursue no more, And he that fled no further fly the King...
Page 338 - Another thing we think good to admonish thee of, gentle Reader, that we have not tied ourselves to an uniformity of phrasing, or to an identity of words, as some peradventure would wish that we had done, because they observe, that some learned men somewhere have been as exact as they could that way. Truly, that we might not vary from the sense of that which we had translated before, if the word signified the same thing in both places, (for there be...
Page 13 - as munny as breaks into 'ouses an' steals, Them as 'as coats to their backs an' taakes their regular meals. Noa, but it's them as niver knaws wheer a meal's to be 'ad. Taake my word for it, Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad. XIII. Them or thir feythers, tha sees, mun 'a bean a laazy lot, Fur work mun 'a gone to the gittin