I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
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; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.
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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.
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I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging.. It were not better for the state to keep them.
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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.
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In the next place, it will be asked, who shall pay these men? I answer, everybody.
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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.
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Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
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The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
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No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
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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.
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Money is the best rule of commerce.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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