The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Dictionary of the Definitions of Terms Used in Connexion with the Theory and Practice of Insurance in All Its Branches: a Biographical Summary ... a Bibliographical Repertory of All Works Written Upon the Subject ... an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance ...C. and E. Layton, 1876 - Insurance |
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... less than 20 , there were in Gt . Brit . and her colonies alone , in the year 1872 , more than 100 fire ins . cos . transacting bus . , possessing prem . incomes ranging between £ 10,000 and £ 1,100,000 p.a .; on the Continent there ...
... less than 20 , there were in Gt . Brit . and her colonies alone , in the year 1872 , more than 100 fire ins . cos . transacting bus . , possessing prem . incomes ranging between £ 10,000 and £ 1,100,000 p.a .; on the Continent there ...
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... less than half the numbers of property are ins . But on looking over the fire returns I was struck with the fact , that two - thirds or 71 p.c. of the warehouses and contents were insured . How was this ! that apparently most properties ...
... less than half the numbers of property are ins . But on looking over the fire returns I was struck with the fact , that two - thirds or 71 p.c. of the warehouses and contents were insured . How was this ! that apparently most properties ...
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... less than 445 were believed to have been incendiary . This is just under 60 p.c. ( 598 ) of the whole ; while there were still further 81 from causes unknown and undiscoverable . The Rhenish Fire Asso . , Western Germany , where the bus ...
... less than 445 were believed to have been incendiary . This is just under 60 p.c. ( 598 ) of the whole ; while there were still further 81 from causes unknown and undiscoverable . The Rhenish Fire Asso . , Western Germany , where the bus ...
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... less saturated with mineral oils or other inflammable compounds are also consigned to the dust box . • Atmospheric Influences . - The question why fires at certain times spread so much more rapidly , and are so much more difficult to ...
... less saturated with mineral oils or other inflammable compounds are also consigned to the dust box . • Atmospheric Influences . - The question why fires at certain times spread so much more rapidly , and are so much more difficult to ...
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... less , occasioned the fire . The sun , too , by drying and raising the temperature of many vegetable substances , as also of thatched roofs and timber buildings , indirectly prepares the way for many serious conflagrations . See Oils ...
... less , occasioned the fire . The sun , too , by drying and raising the temperature of many vegetable substances , as also of thatched roofs and timber buildings , indirectly prepares the way for many serious conflagrations . See Oils ...
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Page 20 - 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.
Page 30 - 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...
Page 31 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw 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...
Page 31 - City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Page 32 - Greene, which I did, riding myself in my night-gown, in the cart ; and, Lord ! to see how the streets and the highways are crowded with people running and riding, and getting of carts at any rate to fetch away things.
Page 307 - ... with intent to defraud, omits to make, or to cause or direct to be made, a full and true entry thereof in the books...
Page 30 - 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.
Page 31 - ... goods and prepare for their removal; and did by moonshine, it being brave dry and moonshine and warm weather, carry much of my goods into the garden, and Mr. Hater and I did remove my money and iron chests into my cellar, as thinking that the safest place. And got my bags of gold into my office, ready to carry away, and my chief papers of accounts also there, and my tallies into a box by themselves.
Page 31 - That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home ; seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as pitch and tar, in Thames Street; and warehouses of oyle, and wines, and brandy, and other things.
Page 32 - Now begins the practice of blowing up of houses in Tower Street, those next the Tower, which at first did frighten people more than anything; but it stopped the fire where it was done, it bringing down the houses to the ground in the same places they stood, and then it was easy to quench what little fire was in it, though it kindled nothing almost.