"Who felt all grief, all wild despair,That the race of man may ever bear,"
"Who felt all grief, all wild despair,
That the race of man may ever bear,"
is one which Coleridge would have penned, reading as I do in theAids to Reflection, vol. i. p. 255. (edit. Pickering, 1843) his protest against the doctrine
"holden by more than one of these divines, that the agonies suffered by Christ were equal in amount to the sum total of the torments of all mankind here and hereafter, or to the infinite debt which in an endless succession of instalments we should have been paying to the divine justice, had it not been paid in full by the Son of God incarnate!"
There are one or two other expressions of which I entertain doubt, but not in sufficient degree to make it worth while to dwell upon them.
Are we ever likely to receive from any member of Coleridge's family, or from his friend Mr. J. H. Green, the fragments, if not the entire work, of hisLogosophia? We can ill afford to lose a work the conception of which engrossed much of his thoughts, if I am rightly informed, towards the close of his life.
THEOPHYLACT.
—My father's notes on Dryden are in my possession. Sir Walter Scott never saw them. The words ÆGROTUSattributes to Sir Walter were used by another commentator on Dryden some thirty years since.
ALGERNONHOLTWHITE.
—Lofcop, notloscop, is clearly the true reading of the word about which I inquired.Lovecopeis the form in which it is written in the Lynn town-books, as well as in the Cinque-port charters, for a reference to which I have to thank your correspondent L. B. L. (Vol. i., p. 371.). I am now satisfied that it is an altered form of the wordlahcop, which occurs in the laws of Ethelred, and is explained in Thorpe'sAncient Laws and Institutes of England, vol. i., p. 294., note. The wordloveday, which is found in English Middle-Age writers, meaning "a day appointed for settling differences by arbitration," is an instance of a similar change. This must originally have beenlah-dæg, though I am not aware that the word is met with in any Anglo-Saxon documents. But in Old-Norse is foundLögdagr, altered in modern Danish intoLavdagorLovdag.
C. W. G.
—These Epigrams, about which QUÆSOinquires, are not the production of Thomas Middleton the dramatist, but of "RichardMiddleton of Yorke, gentleman." The only copy known to exist is among the curious collection of books presented by the poet Drummond to the University of Edinburgh. A careful reprint, limited to forty copies, was published at Edinburgh in 1840. It is said to have been done under the superintendance of James Maidment, Esq.
EDWARDF. RIMBAULT.
—Your correspondent R. H. was misinformed as to the house of Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Harold's Cross, from the fact of his friend confounding that nobleman with another of the United Irishmen leaders; namely, Robert Emmett, who was arrested in the house alluded to. Lord Edward never lived at Harold's Cross, either in avowed residence or concealment.
R. H.'s note above referred to, provoked the communication of L. M. M. at Vol. iv., p. 230., who seems to cast a slur upon the Leinster family for neglecting the decent burial of their chivalric relative. This is not merited. The family was kept in complete ignorance as to how the body was disposed of, it being the wish of the government of the day to conceal the place of its sepulture; as is evident from their not interring it at St. Michan's, where they interred Oliver Bond and all the others whom they put to death at Newgate; and from the notoriety of their having five years later adopted a similar course with regard to the remains of Robert Emmett. (See Madden'sLife of Emmett.) But is he buried at St. Werburgh's? Several, and among others his daughter, Lady Campbell, as appears from L. M. M.'s note, think that he is. I doubt it. Some years since I conversed with an old man named Hammet, the superannuated gravedigger of St. Catherine's, Dublin, and he told me that he officiated at Lord Edward's obsequies in St. Catherine's church, and that they were performed at night in silence, secrecy, and mystery.
E. J. W.
—I do not know what the derivations of this word may be, which are referred to byΑΞΩΝas being in vogue. It is a curious fact that Johnson, Richardson, and Webster do not notice the word at all; although I am not aware that it is of limited or provincial use. In Bailey'sScottish Dictionary, and in Skinner'sEtymologicon, it is traced to the Anglo-Saxonear-wicga, i.e. ear-beetle. In Bosworth'sDictionarywe findwicga, a kind of insect, a shorn-bug, a beetle.
C. W. G.
—In No. 103 of "NOTES ANDQUERIES," under the head of "Sanderson and Taylor," a question is put by W. W. as to the common source of the sentence, "Conscience is the brightness and splendour of the eternal light, a spotless mirror of the Divine majesty, and the image of the goodness of God." Without at all saying that it is the common source, I would beg to refer W. W. to "The Wisdom of Solomon," c. vii. v. 26., where "wisdom"is described as "the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His goodness." The coincidence is curious, though the Latin expressions are dissimilar, the verse in "The Wisdom of Solomon" being as follows: "Nam splendor est à luce æterna et speculum efficacitatis Dei expers maculæ, ac imago bonitatis ejus."
R. M. M.(A Subscriber).
Taunton.
—In Lemprière'sClassical Dict., by the Rev. J. A. Giles, 1843, is the subjoined:—
"The most remarkable remnant of antiquity at the present day is the temple of 'Jupiter Panhellinius' on amount of the same nameabout four hours' distance from the port, supposed to be one of the most ancient temples in Greece, and the oldest specimen of Doric architecture; Dodwell pronounces it to be the most picturesque ruin in Greece."
And in Arrowsmith'sCompendium of Ancient and Modern Geography, 1839, p. 414.:
"In the southern part of the island isPanhellinius Mons, so calledfrom a templeof Jupiter Panhellinius, erected on its summit by Æacus."
C. W. MARKHAM.
—I forget where it is, but remember something about a place held by the tenure of presenting the king with
"———— a Broad-Arrow,When he comes to hunt upon Yarrow."
"———— a Broad-Arrow,
When he comes to hunt upon Yarrow."
I would however suggest, that the use of an arrow-head as a government mark may have a Celtic origin; and that the so-called arrow may be the↑orâ, the broadaof the Druids. This letter was typical of superiority either in rank and authority, intellect or holiness; and I believe stood also for king or prince.
A. C. M.
Exeter, Nov. 4. 1851.
—E. H. A. asks whether any record exists of the consecration of Bethvid, Bishop ofStrengnäsin the time of Gustavus I., King of Sweden? I cannot reply from this place with the certainty I might be able to do, if I had access to my books and papers. But I may venture to state, that the "consecration" (if by that term be meant the canonical and apostolical ordination) of Bethvidus Sermonis, in common with that of all the Lutheran Bishops of Sweden, is involved in much doubt and obscurity; the fact being, that they all derive their orders fromPetrus Magni, Bishop of Westeras, whois saidto have been "consecrated" bishop of that see at Rome by a cardinal inA.D.1524, the then Pontiff having acceded to the request of Gustavus Vasa to this effect. It is, however, uncertain whether Petrus Magni ever received proper episcopal consecration, although it appears probable he did. I endeavoured at one time to ascertain the fact by reference to Rome; but though promised by my correspondent (a British Romanist resident there) that he would procure the examination of the Roll of Bishops in communion with the Holy See, and consecrated by Papal license, for the purpose of discovering whether Bishop Petrus Magni's name occurred therein or not, I never heard more of the subject. I could not help judging, that this silence on the part of my correspondent (to whom I was personally unknown), after his having replied immediately and most civilly to my first communication, was very eloquent and significant. But still the doubt remains uncleared, as to whether the Swedish episcopacy possess or not,as they maintain they do, the blessing of an apostolical and canonical succession.
G. J. R. G.
Pen-y-lau, Ruabon.
—Is the wordspooneyderived from the Anglo-Saxonspanan,spón,asponen, to allure, entice, and therefore equivalent to one allured, trapped, &c., a gowk or simpleton? If C. H. B. could discover whether those specified places were ever at any time tenanted by objectionable characters, this verb and its derivatives might assist his inquiries. He will, however, see thatSpondon(pronouncedspoondon) in Derbyshire is another instance of the word he inquires after.
THOS.LAWRENCE.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
—I can inform the correspondent who inquires whether such a publication of a Bible, which a committee of Friends were intending to publish, ever took place, that no committee was ever appointed by the Society of Friends, who adopt the English authorised version only, as may be seen by their yearly epistle and other authorised publications. I have inquired of many Friends who were likely to know, and not one ever heard of what the authoress ofQuakerismstates.
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—In Rose'sBiographical Dictionaryit is stated that Alexander Cozens was a landscape painter, born in Russia, but attaining his celebrity in London, where he taught drawing. In 1778 he published a theoretical work calledThe Principle of Beauty relative to the Human Face, with illustrations, engraved by Bartolozzi. He died in 1786.
J. O'G.
—Allow me to say that in the reply to the inquiry of G. R. C. one work is omitted which will afford at once all that is wanted: for the Preface to Professor Corrie's recent edition of theHomilies,printed at the Pitt Press, contains the most circumstantial account of their authors.
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We had occasion, some short time since, to speak in terms of deserved commendation of the excellentHandbook to the Antiquities of the British Museumwhich had been prepared by Mr. Vaux. Another and most important department of our great national collection has just found in Dr. Mantell an able scientific, yet popular expositor of its treasures. HisPetrifactions and their Teachings, or a Handbook to the Gallery of Organic Remains in the British Museum, forms the new volume of Bohn'sScientific Library; and, thanks to the acquirements of Dr. Mantell, his good sense in divesting his descriptions, as much as possible, of technical language, and the numerous well-executed woodcuts by which it is illustrated, the work is admirably calculated to accomplish the purpose for which it has been prepared; namely, to serve as a handbook to the general visitor to the Gallery of Organic Remains, and as an explanatory Catalogue for the more scientific observer.
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Welsh Sketches, chiefly Ecclesiastical, to the close of the Twelfth Century.These sketches, which treat of Bardism, the Kings of Wales, the Welsh Church, Monastic Institutions, and Giraldus Cambrensis, are from the pen of the amiable author of theEssays on Church Union, and are written in the same attractive and popular style.
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Albermarle Street,November, 1851.MR. MURRAY'SLIST FOR DECEMBER.I.THE GRENVILLE PAPERS; being the Correspondence of Richard, Earl Temple, and George Grenville, their Friends and Contemporaries, including MR. GRENVILLE'S POLITICAL DIARY, 1763-65. Edited by WM. JAS. SMITH. Vols. I. and II. 8vo.II.HISTORY OF ENGLAND UNDER THE HOUSES OF YORK AND LANCASTER. With a Sketch of the Early Reformation. 8vo.III.LORD MAHON'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT. Vols. V. and VI. The First Years of the American War: 1763-80. 8vo.IV.HON. CAPT. DEVEREUX'S LIVES OF THE EARLS OF ESSEX: 1540-1646. Founded upon Letters and Documents chiefly unpublished. 2 vols. 8vo.V.LADY THERESA LEWIS' LIVES OF THE FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES OF LORD CHANCELLOR CLARENDON. Illustrative of Portraits in his Gallery. Portraits. 3 vols. 8vo.VI.GROTE'S HISTORY OF GREECE. Vols. IX. and X. From the Restoration of the Democracy at Athens (B.C. 403), to the Conclusion of the Sacred War (B.C. 346.) Maps. 8vo.VII.MRS. BRAY'S LIFE AND REMINISCENCES OF THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A. Illustrations. Fcap. 4to.VIII.WORSAAE'S ACCOUNT OF THE DANES AND NORTHMEN IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. Woodcuts. 8vo.IX.MR. MANSFIELD PARKYNS' NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ABYSSINIA. Illustrations. 8vo.X.A FAGGOT OF FRENCH STICKS. By the Author of "Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau." 2 Vols. Post 8vo.XI.SIR WOODBINE PARISH'S BUENOS AYRES AND THE PROVINCES OF THE RIO DE LA PLATA: their discovery, present state, &c. with the Geology of the Pampas. Maps and Plates. 8vo.XII.GURWOOD'S SELECTIONS FROM THE WELLINGTON DESPATCHES. New and Cheaper Edition. 8vo.XIII.SIR CHARLES BELL ON THE HAND; ITS MECHANISM AND ENDOWMENTS, as Evincing Design. New Edition. Woodcuts. Post 8vo.XIV.DR. SMITH'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSICAL MANUAL for Young Persons. Woodcuts. Post 8vo.XV.CAPT. CUNNINGHAM'S HISTORY OF THE SIKHS. Second Edition, with a Memoir. Maps. 8vo.XVI.REV. JOHN PENROSES'S HOME SERMONS for Sunday Reading. 8vo.XVII.MURRAY'S OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF CHURCH AND STATE. Being a Manual of Historical and Political Reference. Fcap. 8vo.
Albermarle Street,November, 1851.
MR. MURRAY'SLIST FOR DECEMBER.
I.
THE GRENVILLE PAPERS; being the Correspondence of Richard, Earl Temple, and George Grenville, their Friends and Contemporaries, including MR. GRENVILLE'S POLITICAL DIARY, 1763-65. Edited by WM. JAS. SMITH. Vols. I. and II. 8vo.
II.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND UNDER THE HOUSES OF YORK AND LANCASTER. With a Sketch of the Early Reformation. 8vo.
III.
LORD MAHON'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT. Vols. V. and VI. The First Years of the American War: 1763-80. 8vo.
IV.
HON. CAPT. DEVEREUX'S LIVES OF THE EARLS OF ESSEX: 1540-1646. Founded upon Letters and Documents chiefly unpublished. 2 vols. 8vo.
V.
LADY THERESA LEWIS' LIVES OF THE FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES OF LORD CHANCELLOR CLARENDON. Illustrative of Portraits in his Gallery. Portraits. 3 vols. 8vo.
VI.
GROTE'S HISTORY OF GREECE. Vols. IX. and X. From the Restoration of the Democracy at Athens (B.C. 403), to the Conclusion of the Sacred War (B.C. 346.) Maps. 8vo.
VII.
MRS. BRAY'S LIFE AND REMINISCENCES OF THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A. Illustrations. Fcap. 4to.
VIII.
WORSAAE'S ACCOUNT OF THE DANES AND NORTHMEN IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. Woodcuts. 8vo.
IX.
MR. MANSFIELD PARKYNS' NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ABYSSINIA. Illustrations. 8vo.
X.
A FAGGOT OF FRENCH STICKS. By the Author of "Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau." 2 Vols. Post 8vo.
XI.
SIR WOODBINE PARISH'S BUENOS AYRES AND THE PROVINCES OF THE RIO DE LA PLATA: their discovery, present state, &c. with the Geology of the Pampas. Maps and Plates. 8vo.
XII.
GURWOOD'S SELECTIONS FROM THE WELLINGTON DESPATCHES. New and Cheaper Edition. 8vo.
XIII.
SIR CHARLES BELL ON THE HAND; ITS MECHANISM AND ENDOWMENTS, as Evincing Design. New Edition. Woodcuts. Post 8vo.
XIV.
DR. SMITH'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSICAL MANUAL for Young Persons. Woodcuts. Post 8vo.
XV.
CAPT. CUNNINGHAM'S HISTORY OF THE SIKHS. Second Edition, with a Memoir. Maps. 8vo.
XVI.
REV. JOHN PENROSES'S HOME SERMONS for Sunday Reading. 8vo.
XVII.
MURRAY'S OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF CHURCH AND STATE. Being a Manual of Historical and Political Reference. Fcap. 8vo.
WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE ANDANNUITY SOCIETY,3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.FOUNDED A.D. 1842.Directors.H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq.William Cabell, Esq.T. Somers Cocks, Jun. Esq. M.P.G. Henry Drew, Esq.William Evans, Esq.William Freeman, Esq.F. Fuller, Esq.J. Henry Goodhart, Esq.T. Grissell, Esq.James Hunt, Esq.J. Arscott Lethbridge, Esq.E. Lucas, Esq.James Lys Seager, Esq.J. Basley White, Esq.Joseph Carter Wood, Esq.Trustees.W. Whately, Esq., Q.C.L. C. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C.George Drew, Esq.Consulting Counsel.—Sir William P. Wood, M.P., Solicitor-General.Physician.—William Rich. Basham, M.D.Bankers.—Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing Cross.VALUABLE PRIVILEGE.POLICIES effected in this Office do not become void through temporary difficulty in paying a Premium, as permission is given upon application to suspend the payment at interest, according to the conditions detailed in the Prospectus.Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100l., with a Share in three-fourths of the Profits:—Age £s.d.17 1 14 422 1 18 827 2 4 532 2 10 837 2 18 642 3 8 2ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.Now ready, price 10s.6d., Second Edition, with material additions, INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION; being a TREATISE on BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, &c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. Parliament Street, London.
WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE ANDANNUITY SOCIETY,
3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.
FOUNDED A.D. 1842.
Directors.H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq.William Cabell, Esq.T. Somers Cocks, Jun. Esq. M.P.G. Henry Drew, Esq.William Evans, Esq.William Freeman, Esq.F. Fuller, Esq.J. Henry Goodhart, Esq.T. Grissell, Esq.James Hunt, Esq.J. Arscott Lethbridge, Esq.E. Lucas, Esq.James Lys Seager, Esq.J. Basley White, Esq.Joseph Carter Wood, Esq.
Directors.
H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq.
William Cabell, Esq.
T. Somers Cocks, Jun. Esq. M.P.
G. Henry Drew, Esq.
William Evans, Esq.
William Freeman, Esq.
F. Fuller, Esq.
J. Henry Goodhart, Esq.
T. Grissell, Esq.
James Hunt, Esq.
J. Arscott Lethbridge, Esq.
E. Lucas, Esq.
James Lys Seager, Esq.
J. Basley White, Esq.
Joseph Carter Wood, Esq.
Trustees.W. Whately, Esq., Q.C.L. C. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C.George Drew, Esq.
Trustees.
W. Whately, Esq., Q.C.
L. C. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C.
George Drew, Esq.
Consulting Counsel.—Sir William P. Wood, M.P., Solicitor-General.Physician.—William Rich. Basham, M.D.Bankers.—Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing Cross.
Consulting Counsel.—Sir William P. Wood, M.P., Solicitor-General.
Physician.—William Rich. Basham, M.D.
Bankers.—Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing Cross.
VALUABLE PRIVILEGE.
POLICIES effected in this Office do not become void through temporary difficulty in paying a Premium, as permission is given upon application to suspend the payment at interest, according to the conditions detailed in the Prospectus.
Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100l., with a Share in three-fourths of the Profits:—Age £s.d.17 1 14 422 1 18 827 2 4 532 2 10 837 2 18 642 3 8 2ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.
Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100l., with a Share in three-fourths of the Profits:—
Age £s.d.
17 1 14 4
22 1 18 8
27 2 4 5
32 2 10 8
37 2 18 6
42 3 8 2
ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.
Now ready, price 10s.6d., Second Edition, with material additions, INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION; being a TREATISE on BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, &c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3. Parliament Street, London.
PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50. REGENT STREET.CITY BRANCH: 2. ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS.Established 1806.Policy Holders' Capital, 1,192,818l.Annual Income, 150,000l.—Bonuses Declared, 743,000l.Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 2,001,450l.President.The Right Honourable EARL GREY.Directors.The Rev. James Sherman,Chairman.Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq.,Deputy-Chairman.Henry B. Alexander, Esq.George Dacre, Esq.William Judd, Esq.Sir Richard D. King, Bart.The Hon. Arthur KinnairdThomas Maugham, Esq.William Ostler, Esq.Apsley Pellatt, Esq.George Round, Esq.Frederick Squire, Esq.William Henry Stone, Esq.Capt. William John Williams.J. A. Beaumont, Esq.,Managing Director.Physician—John Maclean, M.D. F.S.S., 29. Upper Montague Street, Montague Square.NINETEEN-TWENTIETHS OF THE PROFITS ARE DIVIDED AMONG THE INSURED.Examples of the Extinction of Premiums by the Surrender of Bonuses.Date of Policy. 1806Sum Insured. £2500Original Premium. £79 10 10 ExtinguishedBonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £1222 2 0Date of Policy. 1811Sum Insured. £1000Original Premium. £33 19 2 Ditto [Extinguished]Bonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £231 17 8Date of Policy. 1818Sum Insured. £1000Original Premium. £34 16 10 Ditto [Extinguished]Bonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £114 18 10Examples of Bonuses added to other Policies.Policy No. 521Date. 1807Sum Insured. £900Bonus added. £982 12 1Total with Additions to be further increased. £1882 12 1Policy No. 1174Date. 1810Sum Insured. £1200Bonus added. £1160 5 6Total with Additions to be further increased. £2360 5 6Policy No. 3392Date. 1820Sum Insured. £5000Bonus added. £3558 17 8Total with Additions to be further increased. £8558 17 8Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained upon application to the Agents of the Office, in all the principal Towns of the United Kingdom, at the City Branch, and at the Head Office, No. 50. Regent Street.
PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50. REGENT STREET.
CITY BRANCH: 2. ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS.
Established 1806.
Policy Holders' Capital, 1,192,818l.
Annual Income, 150,000l.—Bonuses Declared, 743,000l.
Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 2,001,450l.
President.
The Right Honourable EARL GREY.
Directors.
The Rev. James Sherman,Chairman.Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq.,Deputy-Chairman.Henry B. Alexander, Esq.George Dacre, Esq.William Judd, Esq.Sir Richard D. King, Bart.The Hon. Arthur KinnairdThomas Maugham, Esq.William Ostler, Esq.Apsley Pellatt, Esq.George Round, Esq.Frederick Squire, Esq.William Henry Stone, Esq.Capt. William John Williams.
The Rev. James Sherman,Chairman.
Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq.,Deputy-Chairman.
Henry B. Alexander, Esq.
George Dacre, Esq.
William Judd, Esq.
Sir Richard D. King, Bart.
The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird
Thomas Maugham, Esq.
William Ostler, Esq.
Apsley Pellatt, Esq.
George Round, Esq.
Frederick Squire, Esq.
William Henry Stone, Esq.
Capt. William John Williams.
J. A. Beaumont, Esq.,Managing Director.
Physician—John Maclean, M.D. F.S.S., 29. Upper Montague Street, Montague Square.
NINETEEN-TWENTIETHS OF THE PROFITS ARE DIVIDED AMONG THE INSURED.
Examples of the Extinction of Premiums by the Surrender of Bonuses.Date of Policy. 1806Sum Insured. £2500Original Premium. £79 10 10 ExtinguishedBonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £1222 2 0Date of Policy. 1811Sum Insured. £1000Original Premium. £33 19 2 Ditto [Extinguished]Bonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £231 17 8Date of Policy. 1818Sum Insured. £1000Original Premium. £34 16 10 Ditto [Extinguished]Bonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £114 18 10Examples of Bonuses added to other Policies.Policy No. 521Date. 1807Sum Insured. £900Bonus added. £982 12 1Total with Additions to be further increased. £1882 12 1Policy No. 1174Date. 1810Sum Insured. £1200Bonus added. £1160 5 6Total with Additions to be further increased. £2360 5 6Policy No. 3392Date. 1820Sum Insured. £5000Bonus added. £3558 17 8Total with Additions to be further increased. £8558 17 8
Examples of the Extinction of Premiums by the Surrender of Bonuses.
Date of Policy. 1806
Sum Insured. £2500
Original Premium. £79 10 10 Extinguished
Bonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £1222 2 0
Date of Policy. 1811
Sum Insured. £1000
Original Premium. £33 19 2 Ditto [Extinguished]
Bonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £231 17 8
Date of Policy. 1818
Sum Insured. £1000
Original Premium. £34 16 10 Ditto [Extinguished]
Bonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £114 18 10
Examples of Bonuses added to other Policies.
Policy No. 521
Date. 1807
Sum Insured. £900
Bonus added. £982 12 1
Total with Additions to be further increased. £1882 12 1
Policy No. 1174
Date. 1810
Sum Insured. £1200
Bonus added. £1160 5 6
Total with Additions to be further increased. £2360 5 6
Policy No. 3392
Date. 1820
Sum Insured. £5000
Bonus added. £3558 17 8
Total with Additions to be further increased. £8558 17 8
Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained upon application to the Agents of the Office, in all the principal Towns of the United Kingdom, at the City Branch, and at the Head Office, No. 50. Regent Street.
BY AUTHORITY OF THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS.Complete in Three handsome Volumes, price Three Guineas.OFFICIAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUEOF THEGREAT EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS,1851."A complete literary type of the original to which it refers, opening up sources of amusement or instruction to every class of taste, and proving equally at home on the drawing-room table, handled by fashionable dilettanti in a study, pored over by the scholar or the man of science, at the merchant's desk as a book of constant reference—in the factory, the foundry, and the workshop, as arepertoirefor designs, and as highly suggestive for future progress. A more pleasant work to dive into during an idle hour can hardly be imagined, for wherever it is taken up there is something new and striking, and worthy of attention."—Times."The work is without a precedent in the annals of literature; and when we regard the circumstances of difficulty that surrounded the task of its execution, the praise bestowed on those who undertook it can scarcely be too great. The Contractors, in that enlarged spirit which appears to have entered into all that belongs to the Exhibition, engaged men of reputation and authority in every department of science and manufacture to contribute such descriptive notes as should render the work currently instructive. It thus contains a body of annotations, which express the condition of human knowledge and the state of the world's industry in 1851: and is a document of the utmost importance, as a summary report of this vast international 'stock-taking,' which no great library—nor any gentleman's library, of those who aim at the collection of literary standards—can hereafter be without. It is not the work of a day, a month, or a year: it is for all time. Centuries hence it will be referred to as an authority on the condition to which man has arrived at the period of its publication. It is at once a great Trades Directory, informing us where we are to seek for any particular kind of manufacture—a Natural History, recording the localities of almost every variety of native production—and a Cyclopædia, describing how far science has ministered to the necessities of humanity, by what efforts the crude products of the earth have been converted into articles of utility or made the medium of that refined expression which belongs to the province of creative art. The Exhibition has lived its allotted time, and died; but this Catalogue is the sum of the thoughts and truths to which it has given birth,—and which form the intellectual ground whereon the generations that we are not to see must build.... It will be evident from what has been already stated that a more important contribution to a commercial country than the 'Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition' could scarcely have been offered.... All possible means have been taken to render it worthy of the wonderful gathering of which it is the permanent record."—Athenæum.This work is also published in Five Parts: Parts I. and II., price 10s.each; and Parts III., IV., and V., price 15s.each.SPICER BROTHERS, Wholesale Stationers.WILLIAM CLOWES & SONS, Printers.OFFICIAL CATALOGUE OFFICE, 29. New Bridge Street, Blackfriars; and of all Booksellers.
BY AUTHORITY OF THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS.
Complete in Three handsome Volumes, price Three Guineas.
OFFICIAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
OF THE
GREAT EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS,
1851.
"A complete literary type of the original to which it refers, opening up sources of amusement or instruction to every class of taste, and proving equally at home on the drawing-room table, handled by fashionable dilettanti in a study, pored over by the scholar or the man of science, at the merchant's desk as a book of constant reference—in the factory, the foundry, and the workshop, as arepertoirefor designs, and as highly suggestive for future progress. A more pleasant work to dive into during an idle hour can hardly be imagined, for wherever it is taken up there is something new and striking, and worthy of attention."—Times.
"The work is without a precedent in the annals of literature; and when we regard the circumstances of difficulty that surrounded the task of its execution, the praise bestowed on those who undertook it can scarcely be too great. The Contractors, in that enlarged spirit which appears to have entered into all that belongs to the Exhibition, engaged men of reputation and authority in every department of science and manufacture to contribute such descriptive notes as should render the work currently instructive. It thus contains a body of annotations, which express the condition of human knowledge and the state of the world's industry in 1851: and is a document of the utmost importance, as a summary report of this vast international 'stock-taking,' which no great library—nor any gentleman's library, of those who aim at the collection of literary standards—can hereafter be without. It is not the work of a day, a month, or a year: it is for all time. Centuries hence it will be referred to as an authority on the condition to which man has arrived at the period of its publication. It is at once a great Trades Directory, informing us where we are to seek for any particular kind of manufacture—a Natural History, recording the localities of almost every variety of native production—and a Cyclopædia, describing how far science has ministered to the necessities of humanity, by what efforts the crude products of the earth have been converted into articles of utility or made the medium of that refined expression which belongs to the province of creative art. The Exhibition has lived its allotted time, and died; but this Catalogue is the sum of the thoughts and truths to which it has given birth,—and which form the intellectual ground whereon the generations that we are not to see must build.... It will be evident from what has been already stated that a more important contribution to a commercial country than the 'Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition' could scarcely have been offered.... All possible means have been taken to render it worthy of the wonderful gathering of which it is the permanent record."—Athenæum.
This work is also published in Five Parts: Parts I. and II., price 10s.each; and Parts III., IV., and V., price 15s.each.
SPICER BROTHERS, Wholesale Stationers.WILLIAM CLOWES & SONS, Printers.
OFFICIAL CATALOGUE OFFICE, 29. New Bridge Street, Blackfriars; and of all Booksellers.