The North British Review, Volume 12W.P. Kennedy, 1850 |
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... success . In other countries , Life Assurance has been little practised . France has been too careless and unstable , Holland has been too busy , Germany too unpractical , and America too youthful and self - confident , to cultivate the ...
... success . In other countries , Life Assurance has been little practised . France has been too careless and unstable , Holland has been too busy , Germany too unpractical , and America too youthful and self - confident , to cultivate the ...
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... successful and patriotic labours of Dr. Price , in destroying the bubble schemes set afloat during the latter half of last century , are known to many , and deserve ever to be held in honourable remembrance . The publication of the ...
... successful and patriotic labours of Dr. Price , in destroying the bubble schemes set afloat during the latter half of last century , are known to many , and deserve ever to be held in honourable remembrance . The publication of the ...
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... success , have been consigned to the lean limbo of defeat and disaster . It is a great and a growing evil . It may startle some to be told , that in the year 1848 , and within the Edinburgh offices alone , policies assuring sums to the ...
... success , have been consigned to the lean limbo of defeat and disaster . It is a great and a growing evil . It may startle some to be told , that in the year 1848 , and within the Edinburgh offices alone , policies assuring sums to the ...
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... success the past history and present condition of that singular country and strange people pretty plainly exhibits . We are glad that in the debates in both Houses of Parliament this measure has been treated as one of confiscation . Sir ...
... success the past history and present condition of that singular country and strange people pretty plainly exhibits . We are glad that in the debates in both Houses of Parliament this measure has been treated as one of confiscation . Sir ...
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... successful . The farmer's whole stock is sold , and he and his family are thenceforth a permanent addition to the pauperism of a district ; or the farmer has , we will suppose , succeeded in converting what he has into money , and has ...
... successful . The farmer's whole stock is sold , and he and his family are thenceforth a permanent addition to the pauperism of a district ; or the farmer has , we will suppose , succeeded in converting what he has into money , and has ...
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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.