Graunt

In the 1660s, people like John Graunt were in effect inventing statistics.

Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009

Graunt there bee any, and zealous emulation culleth the highest examples.

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

M. Graunt that it bee so, yet you have not pleased God, seeing it is written, depart from evill and doe good, but tell mee (I pray thee) for what cause principally did you goe thither?

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

Graunt this O heauenly Father, for Iesus Christes sake.

Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians 1880

In the early days of the Society, there was a similar difficulty about Graunt, the author of the celebrated work on mortality.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

It is enough for me that {114} Graunt, whose honesty was never impeached, uses the plainest incidental professions of authorship throughout; that he was elected into the Royal Society because he was the author; that Petty refers to him as author in scores of places, and published an edition, as editor, after

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

Having brought this line to a period, I now return to Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas, natural son of William first Earl of Pembroke, by Maud, daughter and heir of Adam ap Hovel Graunt, before noentioned.

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

Deliverd Mr. Biles his Letter, and Mr. Rawling's his Letters to Mr.. Graunt, and to Mis Bernard who lives now with Mr. Lee the Son, she being remov'd from the Water Gate: So had a fair oportunity to see Mis Phoebe Lee formerly Gold wire: She enter - tainM us with a great deal of Respect and kindness.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

Graunt ships doe come, eyther wee are too many to bee serued by so few ships, or their supply will not bee qua - drate, or we shall want mony to take ther of.

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ... 1768