The Insurance gazette, and provident societies' chronicle, Volume 11856 |
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Page 13 - Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species, with design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment, have in that action bound themselves to be good-humoured, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.
Page 13 - Man is strong, — woman is beautiful. Man is daring and confident, — woman is diffident and unassuming. Man is great in action, — woman, in suffering. Man shines abroad, — woman, at home. Man talks to convince, — woman, to persuade and please. Man has a rugged heart, — woman, a soft and tender one. Man prevents misery, — woman relieves it. Man has science, — woman, taste. Man has judgment, — woman, sensibility. Man is a being of justice, — woman, of mercy.
Page 11 - Oath required by an Act passed in the seventh and eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third...
Page 30 - The advance of capital or money to be used in any trade or undertaking, not being the trade of a banker, upon a contract with the person carrying on such trade or undertaking, that the person making such advance shall receive a share of the profits, or shall bear a share of the loss of the trade or undertaking, shall not, of itself, render the person making such advance liable to third parties, as a partner in such trade or undertaking.
Page 3 - A GOOD WIFE SHOULD be like three things ; which three thing-s she should not be like. FIRST. — She should be like a snail, always keep within her house : — but she should not be like a snail, to carry all she has upon her back, SECONDLY.
Page 14 - ... to move to enter a nonsuit, if the court should be of opinion that the indorsement of the promissory note in pencil was not a good and valid indorsement.
Page 13 - Our royal proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly ; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs, of the House of...
Page 13 - ... your heart and earnestness, your thought and will, which he cannot buy at any price, in any village or city, and which he may well travel fifty miles, and dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold. Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things.
Page 13 - I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bedchamber made ready at too great a cost.
Page 13 - I think that the contract between the shipowner and the underwriters in this case is as clear as the English language could make it, that no action should be brought against the insurers until the arbitrators had disposed of any dispute that might arise between them.