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Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument Maker to the Royal Observatory, the
Board of Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen.
65. CHEAPSIDE.
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CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
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Established 1824.
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FIVE BONUSES have been declared: at the last in January, 1852, the sum of
131,125l. was added to the Policies, producing a Bonus varying with the
different ages from 241/2 to 55 per cent. on the Premiums paid during the
five years, or from 5l. to 12l. 10s. per cent. on the Sum Assured.
The small share of Profit divisible in future among the Shareholders being
now provided for, the ASSURED will hereafter derive all the benefits
obtainable from a Mutual Office, WITHOUT ANY LIABILITY OR RISK OF
PARTNERSHIP.
POLICIES effected before the 30th of June next, will be entitled, at the
next Division, to one year's additional share of Profits over later
Assurers.
On Assurances for the whole of Life only one half of the Premiums need be
paid for the first five years.
INVALID LIVES may be Assured at rates proportioned to the risk.
Claims paid _thirty_ days after proof of death, and all Policies are
_Indisputable_ except in cases of fraud.
Tables of Rates and forms of Proposal can be obtained of any of the
Society's Agents, or of
GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary.
_99. Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London._
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The Twenty-eighth Edition.
NEUROTONICS, or the Art of Strengthening the Nerves, containing Remarks on
the influence of the Nerves upon the Health of Body and Mind, and the means
of Cure for Nervousness, Debility, Melancholy, and all Chronic Diseases, by
DR. NAPIER, M.D. London: HOULSTON & STONEMAN. Price 4d., or Post Free from
the Author for Five Penny Stamps.
"We can conscientiously recommend 'Neurotonics,' by Dr. Napier, to the
careful perusal of our invalid readers."--_John Bull Newspaper, June 5,
1852._
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PULLEYN'S COMPENDIUM.
One Volume, crown 8vo., bound in cloth, price 6s.,
THE ETYMOLOGICAL COMPENDIUM: or, PORTFOLIO OF ORIGINS AND INVENTIONS;
relating to--
Language, Literature, and Government.
Architecture and Sculpture.
Drama, Music, Painting, and Scientific Discoveries.
Articles of Dress, &c.
Titles, Dignities, &c.
Names, Trades, Professions.
Parliament, Laws, &c.
Universities and Religious Sects.
Epithets and Phrases.
Remarkable Customs.
Games, Field Sports.
Seasons, Months, and Days of the Week.
Remarkable Localities, &c. &c.
By WILLIAM PULLEYN.
The Third Edition, revised and improved, by MERTON A. THOMS, ESQ.
London: WILLIAM TEGG & CO., 85 Queen Street, Cheapside.
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