The Quarterly Review, Volumen35William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1827 |
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... body of insurers ; they are tables which an experience of thirty years has proved to be ( for this purpose ) erroneous throughout a large part , in the proportion of two to one . " ' Yet fourteen of the Assurance Offices use these ...
... body of insurers ; they are tables which an experience of thirty years has proved to be ( for this purpose ) erroneous throughout a large part , in the proportion of two to one . " ' Yet fourteen of the Assurance Offices use these ...
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... body of proprietors . · pe- By tracing the progress of these offices through a considerable riod of years , we shall see the important result produced by the deduc- tion of one - third of the profits for the payment of those who ...
... body of proprietors . · pe- By tracing the progress of these offices through a considerable riod of years , we shall see the important result produced by the deduc- tion of one - third of the profits for the payment of those who ...
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... body of assurers the additional injustice of excluding them from being heard in their general courts , it is therefore abso- lutely impossible for them to make their voice be heard anywhere . It would be the extreme of folly to expect ...
... body of assurers the additional injustice of excluding them from being heard in their general courts , it is therefore abso- lutely impossible for them to make their voice be heard anywhere . It would be the extreme of folly to expect ...
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... body , all copartners in the same concern , and equally interested , as far as the number and amount of their payments entitle them ; with this little difference , however , that four thousand of them , who are materially injured by it ...
... body , all copartners in the same concern , and equally interested , as far as the number and amount of their payments entitle them ; with this little difference , however , that four thousand of them , who are materially injured by it ...
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... body would seldom be brought forward ; and when they were , they would be so enveloped in details , that few would understand them : for a general and fami- liar acquaintance with the affairs of India can never be anticipated . ' There ...
... body would seldom be brought forward ; and when they were , they would be so enveloped in details , that few would understand them : for a general and fami- liar acquaintance with the affairs of India can never be anticipated . ' There ...
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Página 455 - A noble army — men and boys, The matron and the maid, Around the Saviour's throne rejoice, In robes of light arrayed. They climbed the steep ascent of Heaven, Through peril, toil, and pain. O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.
Página 67 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
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Página 537 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language ; still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names.
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