The North British Review, Volumen12W.P. Kennedy, 1850 |
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We are warranted , therefore , in asserting , without qualifica- tion , that the law of mortality has been ascertained so accurately from sufficient data as to admit of the most confident reliance on its general operations . These ...
We are warranted , therefore , in asserting , without qualifica- tion , that the law of mortality has been ascertained so accurately from sufficient data as to admit of the most confident reliance on its general operations . These ...
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... tion the more popular principle of mutual Assurance , they may be said with more correctness to belong to a new and mixed genus , partaking in about equal proportions of the proprietary and mutual elements . In fact , Life Assurance ...
... tion the more popular principle of mutual Assurance , they may be said with more correctness to belong to a new and mixed genus , partaking in about equal proportions of the proprietary and mutual elements . In fact , Life Assurance ...
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... tion to the surplus fund . Loss does not arise because members die early , that having been contemplated from the first , and pro- vided for in the calculation . Loss in the true sense would arise if the mortality was greater than was ...
... tion to the surplus fund . Loss does not arise because members die early , that having been contemplated from the first , and pro- vided for in the calculation . Loss in the true sense would arise if the mortality was greater than was ...
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... tion what may be called a Tontine - tax , in the distribution of which they may never share ; and thus Life Assurance , instead of being simplified , and cheapened , and popularized , as it might be , within the limits of perfect safety ...
... tion what may be called a Tontine - tax , in the distribution of which they may never share ; and thus Life Assurance , instead of being simplified , and cheapened , and popularized , as it might be , within the limits of perfect safety ...
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... tion of life is secured , which is the essence of Life Assurance , while no risk of forfeiture can possibly defeat what has once been at- tained . To a large extent this system would supply the desider- atum which is evidently felt ...
... tion of life is secured , which is the essence of Life Assurance , while no risk of forfeiture can possibly defeat what has once been at- tained . To a large extent this system would supply the desider- atum which is evidently felt ...
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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.