 | Charles Babbage - 1826 - 392 trang
...which may have been paid on it. JJcvonshire-streel, Portland-place, 26<A December, 1825. INTRODUCTION. is more proverbially uncertain than the duration of...human life, when the maxim is applied to an individual ; yet there are few things less subject to fluctuation than the average duration of a multitude of... | |
 | 1832 - 406 trang
...proverbially uncertain than the duration of human life, where the maxim is applied to an individual ; yet there are few things less subject to fluctuation than the average duration of a multitude of individuals. The number of deaths happening amongst persons of our own acquaintance... | |
 | John Hogg (M.D.) - 1837 - 420 trang
...proverbially uncertain than the duration of life, where the maxim is applied to an individual ; yet there are few things less subject to fluctuation than the average duration of a multitude of individuals.* The uniformity of a number of deaths in a community is remarkable ; the... | |
 | Alfred Burt - 1849 - 238 trang
...gradually, but progressively lessening. Mr. Charles Babbage, in his treatise upon insurance, says, " Nothing is more proverbially uncertain than the duration...maxim is applied to an individual; but there are few thingsless subject to fluctuation than the average duration of life in a multitude of individuals."... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - 1857 - 456 trang
...Air. Babbage, who looked at the subject more particularly in its bearings upon Life Assurance says, " Nothing is more proverbially uncertain than the duration...average duration of life in a multitude of individuals." Do we want an illustration ? Take 5,000 persons in the prime of fife, and note their deaths. They will... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1860 - 702 trang
...the operations of which are as regular as that of gravitation. It is proverbially uncertain with the individual, but there are few things less subject to fluctuation than the average duration of life with a multitude of individuals. Take 10,000 persons in the prime of life : — 1,200 will die the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 trang
...proverbially uncertain than the duration of human life, where the maxim is applied to an individual; yet there are few things less subject to fluctuation than the average duration of a multitude of individuals. The number of deaths happening amongst persons of our own acquaintance... | |
 | Richard Wormell - 1868 - 184 trang
...age is the same in the same locality. This fact has been thus stated by Mr. Babbage : — Although " nothing is more proverbially uncertain than the duration...human life when the maxim is applied to an individual; yet there are few things less subject to fluctuation than the average duration of life in a multitude... | |
 | 1872 - 488 trang
...Auxiliary Tables. The late Mr. Babbage begins his introduction to his book on Life Assurance thus: — " Nothing is more proverbially uncertain " than the...life, when the maxim is applied to an " individual ; yet there are few things less subject to fluctuation " than the average duration of a multitude of... | |
 | Edward Henry Sieveking - 1874 - 212 trang
...he says that " nothing is more uncertain than the duration of life when the maxim is applied to the individual ; but there are few things less subject to fluctuation than the duration of human life in a multitude of individuals." As the question of the expectation of life underlies... | |
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Nothing is more proverbially uncertain than the duration of human life when the maxim is applied to an individual, but there are few things less subject to fluctuation than the average duration of life in a multitude of individuals. 
