Prince Albert's Golden Precepts; or, the opinions and maxims of ... the Prince Consort. Selected from his addresses, etc., some now for the first time collected, etcSampson Low&Company, 1873 - 133 pages |
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... the experience of generations , the growth of ages , has been thrown away to give place to temporarily favourite ideas . SUPPOSED CERTAINTIES , ONLY PROBABILITIES . OUR statistical science does 16 Prince Albert's Gotaen Precepts .
... the experience of generations , the growth of ages , has been thrown away to give place to temporarily favourite ideas . SUPPOSED CERTAINTIES , ONLY PROBABILITIES . OUR statistical science does 16 Prince Albert's Gotaen Precepts .
Page 17
... statistical science does not even say that this must be so ; it only states that it has been so , and leaves it to the naturalist or political economist to argue that it is probable , from the number of times in which it has been found ...
... statistical science does not even say that this must be so ; it only states that it has been so , and leaves it to the naturalist or political economist to argue that it is probable , from the number of times in which it has been found ...
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... Society to the vast territories of India and Australasia , which last are again to be peopled by the Anglo - Saxon race . THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS . STATISTICAL Science is comparatively new 22 Prince Albert's Golden Precepts .
... Society to the vast territories of India and Australasia , which last are again to be peopled by the Anglo - Saxon race . THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS . STATISTICAL Science is comparatively new 22 Prince Albert's Golden Precepts .
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... STATISTICAL Science is comparatively new in its position among the sciences in general , and we must look for the cause of this tardy recogni- tion to the fact , that it has the appearance of an incomplete science , and of being rather ...
... STATISTICAL Science is comparatively new in its position among the sciences in general , and we must look for the cause of this tardy recogni- tion to the fact , that it has the appearance of an incomplete science , and of being rather ...
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... statistical science , as such , should be subject to prejudice , reproach , and attack ; and yet the fact cannot be denied . A FUTURE HAVEN OF COMMERCE . * We have been laying the foundation not only of a dock , as a place of refuge ...
... statistical science , as such , should be subject to prejudice , reproach , and attack ; and yet the fact cannot be denied . A FUTURE HAVEN OF COMMERCE . * We have been laying the foundation not only of a dock , as a place of refuge ...
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