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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... cause of every fire , it is prob . the proportion of incendiary fires is usually small . Mr. John B. Livingston , Fire Marshal of Alleghany County , Pennsylvania , in his Rep . for 1874 , makes the following remarks upon incendiarism ...
... cause of every fire , it is prob . the proportion of incendiary fires is usually small . Mr. John B. Livingston , Fire Marshal of Alleghany County , Pennsylvania , in his Rep . for 1874 , makes the following remarks upon incendiarism ...
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... CAUSES OF ( GENERAL ) ; FIRES AND FIRE INS . , STATISTICS OF FRAUDS ON INS . ASSO . ; INCENDIARISM . FIRES , CAUSES OF ... cause . See Builder , 28th September , 1844 . Some years ago a fire occurred in Lond . through a jackdaw getting a ...
... CAUSES OF ( GENERAL ) ; FIRES AND FIRE INS . , STATISTICS OF FRAUDS ON INS . ASSO . ; INCENDIARISM . FIRES , CAUSES OF ... cause . See Builder , 28th September , 1844 . Some years ago a fire occurred in Lond . through a jackdaw getting a ...
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... cause . From statistics collected by Mr. R. Cooper Rundell , and given by him in a report to the Underwriters ' Asso ... cause serious disasters . Thus lint cotton may be ignited . Mr. Newell relates 16 FIRES , CAUSES OF .
... cause . From statistics collected by Mr. R. Cooper Rundell , and given by him in a report to the Underwriters ' Asso ... cause serious disasters . Thus lint cotton may be ignited . Mr. Newell relates 16 FIRES , CAUSES OF .
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... causing heating of wires , and ignition of insulating composition , and then of woodwork . An early discovery of the ... causes , but also that when they originate in other causes , inefficient construction allows their spread , not only ...
... causing heating of wires , and ignition of insulating composition , and then of woodwork . An early discovery of the ... causes , but also that when they originate in other causes , inefficient construction allows their spread , not only ...
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... cause . The gas cos . ought long ago to have placed stop - cocks in the front of every building lighted by gas , so that the firemen could cut off the supply in a moment . . . . Glass . - Defective glass , containing knots , bull's eyes ...
... cause . The gas cos . ought long ago to have placed stop - cocks in the front of every building lighted by gas , so that the firemen could cut off the supply in a moment . . . . Glass . - Defective glass , containing knots , bull's eyes ...
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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...