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… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are… — William Petty Copy Share Image
It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort… — William Petty Copy Share Image
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are… — William Petty Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. — William Petty Copy Share Image
Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole… — William Petty Copy Share Image
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments,… — William Petty Copy Share Image
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. — William Petty Copy Share Image
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. — William Petty Copy Share Image
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an… — William Petty Copy Share Image
“Milk was used in various forms during the summer months; in winter beer or water was used. Bread, cakes, potatoes, and sea food were… — William Petty Copy Share Image
