The Quarterly Review, Volume 35William 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 - English literature |
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... individual , is not applicable to an aggregated multi- tude of individuals . If , for example , we take the population of a large city , or of a whole kingdom , the uniformity in the number singular and most ingenious contrivance ...
... individual , is not applicable to an aggregated multi- tude of individuals . If , for example , we take the population of a large city , or of a whole kingdom , the uniformity in the number singular and most ingenious contrivance ...
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... individual should pay 1l . 9s . 6d . to receive 100l . on his death . The premiums at the end of the first year , increased by the interest on them , would amount to 1468 / ; and the payments to be made on ac- count of six deaths being ...
... individual should pay 1l . 9s . 6d . to receive 100l . on his death . The premiums at the end of the first year , increased by the interest on them , would amount to 1468 / ; and the payments to be made on ac- count of six deaths being ...
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... individuals too often feel the effects , under the present system . ' I do not recollect the precise age in this case , but it may be worth inquiring the profit derived by the agent from the sacrifice of his employer's interest ...
... individuals too often feel the effects , under the present system . ' I do not recollect the precise age in this case , but it may be worth inquiring the profit derived by the agent from the sacrifice of his employer's interest ...
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... individuals are brought forward in the House of Commons , have the effect of sometimes embarrassing the honest discharge of official duty , and , to say the least of the matter , render the chance of impunity under malversation highly ...
... individuals are brought forward in the House of Commons , have the effect of sometimes embarrassing the honest discharge of official duty , and , to say the least of the matter , render the chance of impunity under malversation highly ...
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... individuals employed in India : for while public service in that country was , in the last century , however unjustly , consi- dered synonymous with the corrupt acquisition of wealth , the most absolute confidence as to good intention ...
... individuals employed in India : for while public service in that country was , in the last century , however unjustly , consi- dered synonymous with the corrupt acquisition of wealth , the most absolute confidence as to good intention ...
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