Every care has been taken to render the text the most perfect yet produced. The various folios and older editions, together with the modern ones, of Johnson, Stevens, Malone, Boswell, Knight, and Collier (also Dyce's Remarks on the two latter), have been carefully compared and numerous errors corrected. The Portrait, after Droeshout, will be engraved by H. ROBINSON in his first style. London: WILLIAM WHITE, Pall Mall; and to be obtained of all Booksellers. PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50. REGENT STREET. CITY BRANCH: 2. ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS. Established 1806. Policy Holders' Capital, 1,192,818_l._ Annual Income, 150,000_l._--Bonuses Declared, 743,000_l._ Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 2,001,450_l._ _President._ The Right Honourable EARL GREY. _Directors._ The Rev. James Sherman, _Chairman_. Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq., _Deputy-Chairman_. Henry B. Alexander, Esq. George Dacre, Esq. William Judd, Esq. Sir Richard D. King, Bart. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird Thomas Maugham, Esq. William Ostler, Esq. Apsley Pellatt, Esq. George Round, Esq. Frederick Squire, Esq. William Henry Stone, Esq. Capt. William John Williams. J. A. Beaumont, Esq, _Managing Director_. _Physician_--John Maclean. M.D. F.S.S., 29. Upper Montague Street, Montague Square. NINETEEN-TWENTIETHS OF THE PROFITS ARE DIVIDED AMONG THE INSURED. Examples of the Extinction of Premiums by the Surrender of Bonuses. --------+----------+------------------------+-------------------- Date | | | Bonuses added of | Sum | Original Premium. | subsequently, Policy. | Insured. | | to be further | | | increased annually. --------+----------+------------------------+-------------------- 1806 | £2500 | £79 10 10 Extinguished | £1222 2 0 1811 | 1000 | 33 19 2 Ditto | 231 17 8 1818 | 1000 | 34 16 10 Ditto | 114 18 10 --------+----------+------------------------+-------------------- Examples of Bonuses added to other Policies. --------+-------+----------+------------+---------------------- | | | | Total with Additions, Policy | Date. | Sum | Bonuses | to be further No. | | Insured. | added. | increased. --------+-------+----------+------------+---------------------- 521 | 1807 | £ 900 | £ 982 12 1 | £1882 12 1 1174 | 1810 | 1200 | 1160 5 6 | 2360 5 6 3392 | 1820 | 5000 | 3558 17 8 | 8558 17 8 --------+-------+----------+------------+----------------------