The Insurance Cyclopáedia: Being a Dictionary of the Definition of Terms Used in Connexion with the Theory and Practice of Insurance in All Its Branches, Band 4C. and E. Layton, 1876 |
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... French law , which deprives of indemnity the person on whose premises a fire originates . Such a provision would undoubtedly prevent half of our fires ; but with us it would leave some very hard cases , while in France fires are of ...
... French law , which deprives of indemnity the person on whose premises a fire originates . Such a provision would undoubtedly prevent half of our fires ; but with us it would leave some very hard cases , while in France fires are of ...
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... French Académie des Sciences early in 1875 . The workmen at a dye - house at Puteaux had frequently observed after soaking woollen fabrics in a bath of benzine for the purpose of cleaning them , that these fabrics when being wrung out ...
... French Académie des Sciences early in 1875 . The workmen at a dye - house at Puteaux had frequently observed after soaking woollen fabrics in a bath of benzine for the purpose of cleaning them , that these fabrics when being wrung out ...
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... French . ( 1380. ) Hastings . Burned . Memel ( Prussia ) . Large portion of town destroyed . ( 1323 , 1457. ) Winchelsea . March 13. Burned by the French . ( 1377 , 1449. ) Smithfield ( London ) . Monastery of St. John , by Wat Tyler's ...
... French . ( 1380. ) Hastings . Burned . Memel ( Prussia ) . Large portion of town destroyed . ( 1323 , 1457. ) Winchelsea . March 13. Burned by the French . ( 1377 , 1449. ) Smithfield ( London ) . Monastery of St. John , by Wat Tyler's ...
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... French . 1521 Oviedo ( Spain ) . Great part of town burned . 1523 1524 1530 1533 1534 1535 1536 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 1547 1553 1556 1561 1564 1570 1576 1577 1581 1586 1597 1598 66 1608 1612 " L Aalborg ( Jutland ) . This , the ...
... French . 1521 Oviedo ( Spain ) . Great part of town burned . 1523 1524 1530 1533 1534 1535 1536 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 1547 1553 1556 1561 1564 1570 1576 1577 1581 1586 1597 1598 66 1608 1612 " L Aalborg ( Jutland ) . This , the ...
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... French had done it . I got the gates open , and to Mr. Shelden's , where I locked up my gold , and charged my wife and W. Hewer never to leave the room without one of them in it , night or day . So back again , by the way seeing my ...
... French had done it . I got the gates open , and to Mr. Shelden's , where I locked up my gold , and charged my wife and W. Hewer never to leave the room without one of them in it , night or day . So back again , by the way seeing my ...
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actuary allowance amount annu asso Assu average benefit bottomry Bread Brit buildings cause Committee conflagration Considerable fire Constantinople contributions Corn damage death destroyed destruction districts Ditto duty enacted England estab estimated existing fire engines Fire of London floods France French funds houses burned increase inst Ireland June labour Lancashire Liverpool Lodges Lond London loss Manchester Manchester Unity marine maritime marriages Merchants Messrs mort Neison number of fires number of members Odd Fellows offices Order paid Paris Parl payment period persons prems prob property insured proportion regard regis regulations returns risks Rouen rules Russia Scotland Sept ship sickness stamp duty statistics Street sub-heading sum insured Tontine town trade underwriter Vict warehouses whole
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Seite 22 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Seite 32 - Church, to which the scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
Seite 32 - So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of York what I saw; and that, unless his Majesty did command houses to be pulled down, nothing could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way.
Seite 33 - Dowgate, receiving some of his brother's things, whose houses were on fire, and, as he says, have been removed twice already ; and he doubts (as it soon proved) that they must be in a little time removed from his house also, which was a sad consideration. And to see the churches all filling with goods by people, who themselves should have been quietly there at this time.
Seite 33 - God grant my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame ! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like...
Seite 367 - ... with intent to defraud, omits to make, or to cause or direct to be made, a full and true entry thereof in the books...
Seite 33 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Seite 32 - I made myself ready presently, and walked to the Tower and there got up upon one of the high places, Sir J. Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses at that end of the bridge...
Seite 34 - Paul's flew like granados, the melting lead running down the streets in a stream, and the very pavements glowing with fiery redness, so as no horse nor man was able to tread on them, and the demolition had stopped all the passages, so that no help could be applied.
Seite 185 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...