...whicli was kept up in the British Exchequer long after better modes were in use everywhere else. ' Ages ago, a savage mode of keeping accounts on notched...the Court of Exchequer, and the accounts were kept mucn as Robinson Crusoe kept his calendar on the desert island. In the course of considerable revolutions...

...very well-known story, which has so pointed a moral at the end of it, that I will substitute for it a new case, by doing of which I may avoid I hope the...revolutions of time the celebrated Cocker was born and died; Walkingame, of the 'Tutor's Assistant,' and well versed in figures, was also born and died ; a multitude...

...very well-known story, which has so pointed a moral at the end of it, that I will substitute for it a new case, by doing of which I may avoid, I hope,...revolutions of time, the celebrated Cocker was born and died ; Walkingame, of * The Tutor's Assistant/ and well versed in figures, was also born and died; a multitude...

...keepingaccounts which was kept up in the British Exchequer long after better modes were in use everywhere else. ' Ages ago, a savage mode of keeping accounts on notched...celebrated Cocker was born, and died. Walkinghame ef the Tutor's Assistant, well versed in figures, was also born, and died — a multitude of accountants,...

...resolved upon, on account of the mismanagement of our army in the East. On that occasion he said : — " Ages ago, a savage mode of keeping accounts on notched...considerable revolutions of time, the celebrated Cocker was bora [The New Pah«, and died ; Walkinghame, of the ' Tutor's Assistant,' and well versed in figures,...

...subject in Chambers's ' Book of Days ' (vol. ii. p. 310), puts the matter in a humorous way. It says: — 'Ages ago a savage mode of keeping accounts on notched...sticks was introduced into the court of exchequer, and accounts were kept as Kobinson Crusoe kept his calendar .... Men of letters and learning came and went...

...accounts which was kept up in the British Exchequer long after better modes were in use everywhere else. ' Ages ago, a savage mode of keeping accounts on notched...considerable revolutions of time, the celebrated Cocker was boni, and died. Walkinghame i if the Tutor'» Assistant, well versed in figures, was also bom, and...

...deposited with them. When it was first introduced we know not. Chambers, in his "Book of Days," says, "Ages ago a savage mode of " keeping accounts on notched...was introduced into the " Court of Exchequer, and accounts were kept as Robinson Crusoe "kept his calendar." Each tally was the natural bough of a tree,...

...with more humour than by Charles Dickens. In an afterdinner speech at Drury Lane Theatre he said : — "Ages ago a savage mode of keeping accounts on notched...Robinson Crusoe kept his calendar on the desert island, on certain splints of elm-wood called tallies. " In the Reign of George III an inquiry was made by...

...and Speeches, Volume 2) which it would be cheating the reader not to quote. The passage is as under: Ages ago a savage mode of keeping accounts on notched...Exchequer, and the accounts were kept, much as Robinson 228 Crusoe kept his calendar on the desert island. ... A multitude of accountants, book-keepers, and...