Principles of Statistical Inquiry: As Illustrated in Proposals for Uniting an Examination Into the Resources of the United States with the Census to be Taken in 1840D. Appleton & Company, 1839 - 263 sider |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Principles of Statistical Inquiry: As Illustrated in Proposals for Uniting ... Archibald Russell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1839 |
Principles of Statistical Inquiry: As Illustrated in Proposals for Uniting ... Archibald Russell Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2015 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
accurate acres aggregate agricultural American amount annually anthracite coal ascertained attention average believe Bloomeries bushels calculation Capital invested census classes clergy coal condition confinement at labour Connecticut convict Cotton county jails crime criminal decimal period detail difficulty districts domestic employed England enumeration estimate Europe examination exhibit exist expense exported extent facture Females foreign France Government Hall County hope immigrants inhabitants inquiry interest iron Jones County laws males manu manufacture Marshals Massachusetts means ment meration metals moral native nature neral New-Jersey New-York number of persons obtained Offence pauperism Penitentiary Pennsylvania political poor laws population present principles prison procured proportion quantity ratio of increase raw material refer regarding remarks returns Rhode Island schedules schools silk society Solitary confinement Spermaceti statements statistical taxes timate tion topics trade ture United Value of raw various wealth whole number wool
Populære avsnitt
Side 133 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Side 55 - ... the duty of the several marshals and their assistants, at the time for taking the said census, to take, under the direction of the Secretary of State, and according to such instructions as he shall give, and such forms as he shall prescribe, an account of the several manufacturing establishments, and their manufactures, within their several districts, territories, and divisions.
Side 219 - That therefore, which makes a good constitution, must keep it, viz : men of wisdom and virtue, qualities that because they descend not with worldly inheritances, must be carefully propagated by a virtuous education of youth...
Side 44 - ... of the number of inhabitants which would probably be found in the United States on enumeration was too large. The estimate was then founded on the ideas held out by the gentlemen in Congress of the population of the several states, each of whom (as was very natural), looking through a magnifier, would speak of the greatest extent to which there was any probability of their numbers reaching. Returns of the census have already been made from several of the states, and a tolerably just estimate...
Side 210 - ... the public, it shall be the duty of the said overseer diligently to investigate and inquire as to the antecedents of such person, whether he or she has any relatives legally bound to support...
Side 19 - In 1800, the woolen manufacturers objected strenuously to some of the provisions in the treaty of union between Great Britain and Ireland, and were allowed to urge their objections at the bar of the House of Lords, and to produce evidence in their support. Mr. Law (afterwards Lord Ellenborough), the counsel employed by the manufacturers on this occasion, stated, in his address to their Lordships, on information communicated to him by his clients, that 600,000 packs of wool were annually produced"...
Side 66 - ... examination and analysis, lead to the most erroneous conclusions. It is supposed by many, that whatever may be the annual value of our manufactured goods,, we shall, by adding it to the annual value of our agricultural products, get the total value of the new commodities annually produced in the empire. But this is an error. The value of the British wool, for example, employed in the woollen manufacture, may amount to from £5,000,000 to £5,500,000 a year, and forms an item of this amount in...
Side 222 - That each town or district within this Commonwealth, containing fifty families, or householders, shall be provided with a teacher or teachers, of good morals, to instruct children in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and good behavior, for such term of time as shall be equivalent to six months for one school in each year...
Side 14 - In recommending to Congress the adoption of the necessary provisions at this session for taking the next census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the suggestion presents itself whether the scope of the measure might not be usefully extended by causing it to embrace authentic statistical returns of the great interests specially intrusted to or necessarily affected by the legislation of Congress.
Side 229 - ... system, and such a system only, can avert all the evils and produce all the benefits which our common schools were designed to avert and produce. True, such a system must be far more extensive and complete than any now in operation among; us — teachers must be more numerous, skilful, persevering, and self-denying — parents must take greater interest in the schools and do more for their support — and the children must attend punctually and regularly, till the whole prescribed course is completed....