Observations on Reversionary Payments: On Schemes for Providing Annuities for Widows, and for Persons in Old Age; on the Method of Calculating the Values of Assurances on Lives; and on the National Debt. Also Essays on Different Subjects in the Doctrine of Life-annuities and Political Arithmetic ...T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1812 - Annuities |
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... VOLUMES . THE WHOLE New arrangeD , AND ENLARGED BY THE ADDITION OF ALGEBRAICAL AND OTHER NOTES , AND THE SOLUTIONS OF SEVERAL NEW PROBLEMS IN THE DOCTRINE OF ANNUITIES , BY WILLIAM MORGAN , F.R.S. SEVENTH EDITION . VOL . II . LONDON ...
... VOLUMES . THE WHOLE New arrangeD , AND ENLARGED BY THE ADDITION OF ALGEBRAICAL AND OTHER NOTES , AND THE SOLUTIONS OF SEVERAL NEW PROBLEMS IN THE DOCTRINE OF ANNUITIES , BY WILLIAM MORGAN , F.R.S. SEVENTH EDITION . VOL . II . LONDON ...
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... Different Subjects in the Doctrine of Life-annuities and Political Arithmeti Richard Price William Morgan. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 165926 ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1900 . 1 CONTENTS . VOLUME II . · ESSAY I. Observations on.
... Different Subjects in the Doctrine of Life-annuities and Political Arithmeti Richard Price William Morgan. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 165926 ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1900 . 1 CONTENTS . VOLUME II . · ESSAY I. Observations on.
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... VOLUME II . · ESSAY I. Observations on the Expectations of Lives ; the In- crease of Mankind , the number of Inhabitants in London ; and the Influence of great Towns on Health and Population : In a Letter to Benjamin Franklin , Esq . LL ...
... VOLUME II . · ESSAY I. Observations on the Expectations of Lives ; the In- crease of Mankind , the number of Inhabitants in London ; and the Influence of great Towns on Health and Population : In a Letter to Benjamin Franklin , Esq . LL ...
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... coincides with the sums of the present probabilities , that any given single or joint lives shall attain to the end of the Sée Note ( K ) at the end of Volume I. 1st , 2d , 3d , & c . moments 1st , On the Expectation of Lives ;
... coincides with the sums of the present probabilities , that any given single or joint lives shall attain to the end of the Sée Note ( K ) at the end of Volume I. 1st , 2d , 3d , & c . moments 1st , On the Expectation of Lives ;
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... would in time grow . Thus ; since 19 , or the third of 57 , is the expectation of two See Note ( K ) at the end of Volume I. joint joint lives whose common age is 29 , of com- the State of London , Population , & c . 7.
... would in time grow . Thus ; since 19 , or the third of 57 , is the expectation of two See Note ( K ) at the end of Volume I. joint joint lives whose common age is 29 , of com- the State of London , Population , & c . 7.
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according ampton Annual average annual births annual burials annual medium annual payments annuity appears bills of mortality births and burials bitants Brandenburg Breslaw cent Chester Class 1st consequence country parishes crease decrease decrements deduced died Difference of Age Doctrine of Chances equal Essay excess expectation families given greater half Howlett increase joint Continuance joint lives aged kingdom Lancashire less males and females Manchester marriages married mentioned Messance Muret nearly Northampton Table NORWICH number born number dying annually number of births number of deaths number of houses number of inhabitants number of males PARCIEUX Paris particular period population preceding Table probabilities of living proportion reckoned Shewing the Probabilities Shewing the Value Shipmeadow single payment Stockholm Sums payable supposing supposition survey Susmilch's Table of Observations TABLE TABLE tion towns Value at Ages Value at Value values of lives Vaud VEVEY volume Warrington weekly contributions whole number widows
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Page 127 - ... it is by no means strictly proper to consider our diseases as the original intention of nature. They are, without doubt, in general our own creation. Were there a country where the inhabitants led lives entirely natural and virtuous, few of them would die without measuring out the whole period of...
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Page 84 - This rule can want no explication or proof, after what has been already said. If, therefore, the number of annual settlers in a town at every age could be ascertained ; a perfect Table of Observations might be formed for that town, from Bills of mortality containing an account of the ages at which all die in it. But no more can be...
Page 155 - By this means the houses being kept up, did of necessity enforce a dweller; and the proportion of land for occupation being kept up, did of necessity enforce that dweller not to be a beggar or cottager, but a man of some substance, that might keep hinds and servants, and set the plough on going.
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Page 127 - From this comparison, it appears, with how much truth great cities have been called the graves of mankind. It must also convince all who consider it, that according to the observation, at the end of the...
Page 97 - Secondly, the bills give the number dying annually between 20 and " 30 greater than between 30 and 40 ; but this being, a circumstance which '' does not exist in any other register of mortality, and, undoubtedly, owing to "some accidental and local causes, the decrements were made equal between ' 22 and 40; preserving, however, the total of deaths between 20 and 40 ' the same that the bills give them.