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Page 45 - Given the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed : Required the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named.
Page 32 - The Enunciations and Figures belonging to the Propositions in the First Six and part of the Eleventh Books of Euclid's Elements, (usually read in the Universities,) prepared for Students in Geometry By the Rev. J. Brasse, DD New Edition. Fcap. 8vo. Is. On cards, in case, 5s.
Page 42 - Plague-time, how the Sickness increased, or decreased, that so the Rich might judge of the necessity of their removal!, and Trades-men might conjecture what doings they were like to have in their respective dealings: 2.
Page 41 - The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd...
Page 50 - Secondly, the bills give the number dying annually between 20 and " 30 greater than between 30 and 40 ; but this being, a circumstance which '' does not exist in any other register of mortality, and, undoubtedly, owing to "some accidental and local causes, the decrements were made equal between ' 22 and 40; preserving, however, the total of deaths between 20 and 40 ' the same that the bills give them.
Page 32 - THE YOUNG NAVIGATOR'S GUIDE to the Sidereal and Planetary Parts of Nautical Astronomy...
Page 42 - Mortality, made little other use of them, then to look at the foot, how the Burials increased, or decreased; And, among the Casualties, what had happened rare, and extraordinary in the week currant: so as they might take the same as a Text to talk upon, in the next Company...
Page 51 - An Act for the better regulating and preserving Parish and other Registers of Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials in England.
Page 52 - Mr. Griffith Davies has published tables of annuities taken from statements of Mr. Morgan in his addresses to the general courts of the Equitable Society, and in notes added by him to the latter editions of Dr. Price's Observations on Reversionary Payments, In Mr. Morgan's address to the general court held on the 24th of April, 1800, he stated that the decrements of life among the members of the Equitable, for the preceding 30 years, had been, to those of the Northampton — which statement is confirmed...
Page 52 - Finlaison confirm this fact, independently of the use of vaccination; and, on this point, he remarks, "that the facts shown in the annexed observations, bear conclusive testimony that it is an indisputable truth,* that the rate of mortality in England has, during the last century, diminished in a very important degree, on each sex equally, but not by equal gradations, nor equally at all periods of life; and that while in regard to the males, it seems, in early and middling life, to have remained...