Question one: Was the premium paid by Mr. Chapin for the, policy's first year in "contemplation of death"?
It seems that in Numenius it is the contemplation of the first intellect by the second that gives rise to the forms, or Platonic ideas; Origen, as a Christian, holds that the contemplation is mutual, since "no-one knows the Son but the Father and no-one knows the Father but the Son" (Matthew 11.27).
Another is "A handbag?", Lady Bracknell's astounded contemplation of the first home of her prospective son-in-law Jack - a foundling, it emerges - in Oscar Wilde's great comedy The Importance of Being Earnest.
But after the birth of my second child, my bipolar disorder escalated and my doctors said "no" to my irrational contemplation of a third, and my husband, who bore the brunt of my breakdown, adamantly refused.
There are also more cerebral rewards, especially in contemplation of the fifth woman in this arrangement: the author herself.
She smoothed it down over the wrist and buttoned it neatly, and both lost themselves for a second or two in admiring contemplation of the little symmetrical gloved hand.
In the first conversation he argued that the contemplation of natural beauty has a calming and moderating influence on our passions.
Awakened by the anti-Semitic events of the winter 1959/60 and in response to other countries' reactions, the first serious activities towards a stronger contemplation of NS history began at the start of the 1960s.
The second is that the ebullient clashes that they bring will be especially fun for Democrats.This second conclusion is reinforced by the contemplation of Steve Forbes, one of several presidential hopefuls at this month's conservative conference.
That role is widely thought to carry overtones of Wagner's anti-Semitism, just as this third act — for all its lofty contemplation of the connections among madness, dreams and creativity — distills his jingoism in a vision of shining glory.
