The Principles of the Doctrine of Life-annuities; Explained in a Familiar Manner, [...], Volume 1

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B. White, 1783
 

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Page 23 - What is the interest of $ 81, for 2 years 14 days, at ^ per cent. ? £• per cent. ? £ per cent. ? 2 per cent. ? 3 per cent. ? 4£ per cent. ? 5 per cent. ? 6 per cent. ? 7 per cent. ? 7£ per cent. ? 8 per cent.? 9 per cent. ? 10 per cent.
Page xvii - YEARS 20 YEARS 25 YEARS 30 YEARS 35 YEARS 40 YEARS 45 YEARS 50 YEARS 55 YEARS 60 YEARS 65 YEARS 70 YEARS 80 n 23 23 84 $27.76 28.17 28.60 28.04 29.50 $173 177 181 185.
Page 35 - And if they lend their money to tradesmen of their acquaintance, as they sometimes do, it happens not unfrequently that their creditor becomes a bankrupt, and the money they had trusted him with is lost for ever ; which discourages others of them from saving...
Page 385 - December 1716, and are declared to be National Debts, and are provided for by Act of Parliament, in such Manner and Form as shall be directed or appointed by any future Act or Acts of Parliament to be discharged therewith or out of the same, and to and for none other Use, Intent or Purpose whatsoever.
Page 18 - Villages as furnifli him nearly an equal number of Lives : and his care and accuracy in that performance have been fuch as to merit the high approbation of the learned Editor. It was therefore propofed to add this Table to the reft ; after having purged its numbers of the inequalities that...
Page 384 - Debt, we will confider of die moft proper Methods for immediately applying the Produce of the Sinking Fund, to the Ufes for which it was fo wifely contrived, and to which it ftands now appropriated...
Page 384 - any Parts of my Dominions; my whole Care and Concern " has been to preferve and maintain the undoubted Rights " and Privileges of my People...
Page 3 - Tranfaftions, page 326) and is faid to have been formed from certain tables of affignable annuities for lives in Holland, which had been kept there for 125 years, and in which the ages of the feveral perfons dying in that period had been truly entered. And
Page xxvii - Finland (latitude 59° 48' to 61° 30'). Central Finland (latitude 61° 30" to 64°). Northern Finland (latitude 64" to 68°). 10 years.. . 20 years. .. 30 years. . 40 years.. 50 years.. 60 years. . 70 years.. 80 years.. 90 years. 100 years 110 years 120 years 130 years 140 years 150 years 160 years 170 years 180 years 190 years 200 years .. Cubic feet. Stand per acre. Annual
Page i - ... to certain tables of the feveral probabilities of the duration of human life at every different year of age, which have been formed from obfervations of the numbers -of perfons who...

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