 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1856 - 844 páginas
...of government. " Statistics," says the Superintendent of the Seventh Census of the United States, " are far from being the barren array of figures, ingeniously...period of years, as compared with other periods, and deduce the profit or the loss which has been made in morals, education, wealth, or power." Massachusetts... | |
 | 1851 - 830 páginas
...writer on the subject, (Mr. De Bow, the Superintendent of the Seventh Census of the United States,) " are far from being the barren array of figures, ingeniously...are apt to suppose them. They constitute rather the leger of a nation, in which, like the merchant in his books, the citizen can read, at one view, all... | |
 | Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth - 1852 - 726 páginas
...writer on the subject, (Mr. De Bow, the Superintendent of the Seventh Census of the United States,) " are far from being the barren array of figures, ingeniously...are apt to suppose them. They constitute rather the leger of a nation, in which, like the merchant in his books, the citizen can read, at one vie%v, all... | |
 | Abram Stevens Hewitt - 1856 - 54 páginas
...in the name and objects of this Society, and in the consideration, so well stated by another, " that statistics are far from being the barren array of...his books, the citizen can read, at one view, all the results of a year, or a period of years, as compared with other periods, and deduce the profit... | |
 | 1856 - 794 páginas
...of government. " Statistics," says the Superintendent of the Seventh Census of the United States, " are far from being the barren array of figures, ingeniously...merchant in his books, the citizen can read, at one view, nil of the results of a year or of a period of years, as compared with öfter periods, and deduce the... | |
 | Providence (R.I.). City Council. Census Committee - 1856 - 98 páginas
...confirmed by the following remarks from Mr. DeBow's Compendium of the United States Census of 1850: " Statistics are far from being the barren array of...suppose them. They constitute rather the ledger of the nation, in which, like the merchant in his books, the citizen can read, at one view, all the results... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 páginas
...and South-western states, and who is, perhaps, the greatest statistician in the country, says : — " Statistics are far from being the barren array of...period of years, as compared with other periods, and deduce the profit or the loss which has been made, in morals, education, wealth or power." Impressed... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 432 páginas
...and South-western states, and who is, perhaps, the greatest statistician in the country, says :— " Statistics are far from being the barren array of...merchant in his books, the citizen can read, at one , all of the results of a year or of 'a period of years, as compared with other periods, and deduce... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 páginas
...and South-western states, and who is, perhaps, the greatest statistician in the country, says : — " Statistics are far from being the barren array of...the merchant in his books, the citizen can read, at ono view, all of the results of a year or of a period of years, as compared with other periods, and... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 434 páginas
...and South-western states, and who is, perhaps, the greatest statistician in the country, says : — " Statistics are far from being the barren array of...are apt to suppose them. They constitute rather the ledgef of a nation, in which, like the merchant in his books, the citizen can read, at ono view, all... | |
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Statistics are far from being the barren array of figures ingeniously and laboriously combined into columns and tables, which many persons are apt to suppose them. They constitute rather the ledger of a nation, in which, like the merchant in his books,... 
