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.
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have t… - William Petty
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have t…
- William Petty
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; wh… - William Petty
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; wh…
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 n… - William Petty
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 n…
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 … - William Petty
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 …
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. - William Petty
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value. - William Petty
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. - William Petty
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what qua… - William Petty
It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what qua…
Money is the best rule of commerce. - William Petty
Money is the best rule of commerce.
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