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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. - William Petty Quotes

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.

English Economist

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 Quotes

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.

English Economist

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 Quotes

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.

English Economist

I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them. - William Petty Quotes

I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World. - William Petty Quotes

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

English Economist

As for religion, I die in the profession of that faith, and in the practice of such worship as I find established by the law of my country. - William Petty Quotes

As for religion, I die in the profession of that faith, and in the practice of such worship as I find established by the law of my country.

English Economist

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 quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic. - William Petty Quotes

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 quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

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 Quotes

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.

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 Quotes

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.

English Economist

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 Quotes

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.

English Economist

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