The North British Review, Volumen12W.P. Kennedy, 1850 |
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... object of Life Assurance ? What is that for which it and it alone provides ? Not the accumulation of savings merely - that may be secured by depositing in a bank , as well as by paying premiums to an assurance office . Manifestly and ...
... object of Life Assurance ? What is that for which it and it alone provides ? Not the accumulation of savings merely - that may be secured by depositing in a bank , as well as by paying premiums to an assurance office . Manifestly and ...
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... object of Life Assurance , but of conferring a bonus and bounty upon long life , which is the gambling principle of the Tontine . Farther , and without dwelling upon this subject , we may venture to say , that no little suspicion exists ...
... object of Life Assurance , but of conferring a bonus and bounty upon long life , which is the gambling principle of the Tontine . Farther , and without dwelling upon this subject , we may venture to say , that no little suspicion exists ...
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... object should be to promote its extension among all who can avail themselves of its benefits . Instead of doing this by offering Assurance at low but safe rates , these are kept so high as to deter many from at- tempting to assure , and ...
... object should be to promote its extension among all who can avail themselves of its benefits . Instead of doing this by offering Assurance at low but safe rates , these are kept so high as to deter many from at- tempting to assure , and ...
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... object seems to have been that the rates be collected - no matter from whom ; and it must be said for them , that when once litigation commenced it seems impossible for the parties to any suit to draw the line between the class of ...
... object seems to have been that the rates be collected - no matter from whom ; and it must be said for them , that when once litigation commenced it seems impossible for the parties to any suit to draw the line between the class of ...
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... object than the preservation of property — if its ad- ministration be not conducted in the feeling that this its first purpose and object should be regarded as paramount to every other , we think it absolutely impossible that , with any ...
... object than the preservation of property — if its ad- ministration be not conducted in the feeling that this its first purpose and object should be regarded as paramount to every other , we think it absolutely impossible that , with any ...
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Página 405 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed (miserable train!), Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence and their good receives...
Página 124 - So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?
Página 410 - MY days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Página 117 - Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, 50 Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time...
Página 119 - Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart : O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Página 474 - belly and thighs of brass," and the legs and feet "of iron, and of iron mingled with clay.
Página 405 - That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright...
Página 102 - the thoughts of men are " widened with the process of the suns," but that there are recurring cycles of improvement and decay.
Página 405 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace...
Página 542 - IV. Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden in the Word: Nor can such incestuous marriages ever be made lawful by any law of man, or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife.