The Standard Library Cyclopedia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical and Forensic Knowledge: Forming a Work of Universal Reference on the Subjects of Civil Administration, Political Economy, Finance, Commerce, Laws and Social Relations ...H. G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... become so complicated that it is difficult for any one man , however enlarged may be the range of his under- standing , and however exact his judgment , to form a correct estimate of the whole of this present society of which he is a ...
... become so complicated that it is difficult for any one man , however enlarged may be the range of his under- standing , and however exact his judgment , to form a correct estimate of the whole of this present society of which he is a ...
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... becoming converted to the Ro- though interpreted by Dionysius of Hali- man Catholic faith after he had taken his ... become entitled to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion or Pro- testant government in the United King- dom ...
... becoming converted to the Ro- though interpreted by Dionysius of Hali- man Catholic faith after he had taken his ... become entitled to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion or Pro- testant government in the United King- dom ...
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... become a cultivator , or he must retire to places where the white man does not think it worth his while to follow him . The savage abori- gines do not pass from what we call bar- barism to what we call civilization with- out being ...
... become a cultivator , or he must retire to places where the white man does not think it worth his while to follow him . The savage abori- gines do not pass from what we call bar- barism to what we call civilization with- out being ...
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... becomes an absentee . When the landlord , whose case we have supposed , resided upon his estate , he probably received his rental direct | from his tenants . That rental was the landlord's share of as many quarters of corn , as many ...
... becomes an absentee . When the landlord , whose case we have supposed , resided upon his estate , he probably received his rental direct | from his tenants . That rental was the landlord's share of as many quarters of corn , as many ...
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... becoming a Master in Chan- cery . The present Accountant - General , who was appointed in April , 1839 , is the thirteenth who has filled the situation since invest them in the purchase of lands , during the ABSENTEE . [ 14 ] ACCOUNTANT ...
... becoming a Master in Chan- cery . The present Accountant - General , who was appointed in April , 1839 , is the thirteenth who has filled the situation since invest them in the purchase of lands , during the ABSENTEE . [ 14 ] ACCOUNTANT ...
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Page 140 - the case : the shorter the time which a man is supposed to live, the more must he pay the office, that the latter may at his death have accumulated wherewithal to pay his executors. We now give in Table V. the values of
Page 260 - of partnership exceeding the number of six persons, in that part of
Page 140 - those which suppose men to live longer. Those who buy annuities would, therefore, be glad to be rated according to tables of high
Page 140 - The value of a life annuity depends, therefore, upon the manner in which it is presumed a large number of persons,
Page 254 - the security of goods, and lent sums in one place to be repaid in another. They likewise dealt in foreign coins, and appear to have occasionally advanced money to the state for public purposes. Some of them, as we are told, acquired great wealth. In the treatise written by Xenophon on the revenues of Attica, we find a remarkable project for the
Page 254 - in the progress of a community towards civilization, the extent of its commercial dealings had become very considerable, none would be led to give their attention to the occupation of facilitating the money operations of the rest of the mercantile community. At first this office would doubtless be undertaken for others by the more
Page 140 - have been constructed, from observations made among different classes of lives. Some make the mortality greater than others ; and of
Page 404 - consumed by them in that year were 60,592,001. Their proportions are as- follows :— 1843. 79 London newspapers . 31,692,092 212 English provincial
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