“ Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 552
“ Another cause which aggravates taxes is the force of paying them in money at a certain tinge, and not in commodities at the most convenient seasons. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 538
“ Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2K
“ Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Another cause which aggravates taxes is the force of paying them in money at a certain tinge, and not in commodities at the most convenient seasons. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 747
“ The full understanding of the nature of Money, the effects of the various species of Coins, and of their uncertain values, as also of raising or embasing them, is a learning most proper for Ireland, which hath been lately much and often abused for the want of it. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 3.5K
“ An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 127
“ Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.9K
“ We incline, therefore, to think the parishes should be equal or near, because in the reformed religion the principal use of a church is to preach in. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.3K
“ No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 3.4K
“ An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Now, forasmuch as princes are not only powerful but rich, according to a number of people it is no wonder why states by encouraging marriage, advance their own interests. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The full understanding of the nature of Money, the effects of the various species of Coins, and of their uncertain values, as also of raising or embasing them, is a learning most proper for Ireland, which hath been lately much and often abused for the want of it. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 450
“ It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, especially according to its most natural bounds. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2K
“ Now, forasmuch as princes are not only powerful but rich, according to a number of people it is no wonder why states by encouraging marriage, advance their own interests. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 262
“ It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, especially according to its most natural bounds. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, especially according to its most natural bounds. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 3K
“ Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The full understanding of the nature of Money, the effects of the various species of Coins, and of their uncertain values, as also of raising or embasing them, is a learning most proper for Ireland, which hath been lately much and often abused for the want of it. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 385
“ We incline, therefore, to think the parishes should be equal or near, because in the reformed religion the principal use of a church is to preach in. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 2.9K
“ An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain. ”
- William Petty- Copy
- 1.6K
- 1
- 2
- 3