The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... Statistical Commission in direct communication with his government , whose confidence he deservedly possesses , he has been enabled to suggest and carry out a variety of useful and important improvements , both in the forms and objects ...
... Statistical Commission in direct communication with his government , whose confidence he deservedly possesses , he has been enabled to suggest and carry out a variety of useful and important improvements , both in the forms and objects ...
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... statistical results depends on a due appreciation of this distinction and acceptance of its consequences . The recognition of a mean , so distinguished from a mere average , among a series of results thus grouped in order , depends on ...
... statistical results depends on a due appreciation of this distinction and acceptance of its consequences . The recognition of a mean , so distinguished from a mere average , among a series of results thus grouped in order , depends on ...
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... statistical enumeration . A few remarks on the part which the theory of Probabilities plays in these inquiries will not be out of place here . This theory is connected with the general philosophy of causation and with inductive inquiry ...
... statistical enumeration . A few remarks on the part which the theory of Probabilities plays in these inquiries will not be out of place here . This theory is connected with the general philosophy of causation and with inductive inquiry ...
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... the social well - being of man . To this subject M. Quetelet devotes the fourth and last division of his work ; not , indeed , to the delivery of statistical tables or results , nor to the actual discussion of any particular.
... the social well - being of man . To this subject M. Quetelet devotes the fourth and last division of his work ; not , indeed , to the delivery of statistical tables or results , nor to the actual discussion of any particular.
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... statistical returns are to social and political philosophy . They assign , at determinate intervals , the numerical values of the variables which form the subject matter of its reasonings , or at least of such functions ' of them as are ...
... statistical returns are to social and political philosophy . They assign , at determinate intervals , the numerical values of the variables which form the subject matter of its reasonings , or at least of such functions ' of them as are ...
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Página 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Página 276 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Página 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 90 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
Página 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Página 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Página 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.