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Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

Book by William Petty · 4 quotes · Mean, Acres, Causes

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Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland Quotes

“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.”

“Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.”

“A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.”

“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.”