The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, 第 2 巻

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661 ページ - Aanwysing der heilsame politike gronden en maximen van de republike van Holland en West-Vriesland.
333 ページ - I had reduced into Tables (the Copies whereof are here inserted) so as to have a view of the whole together, in order to the more ready comparing of one Year, Season, Parish, or other Division of the City, with another, in respect of all the Burials, and Christnings, and of all the Diseases, and Casualties happening in each of them respectively...
396 ページ - It is no less necessary to know how many People there be of each Sex, State, Age, Religion, Trade, Rank, or Degree, &c. by the knowledge whereof, Trade and Government may be made more certain and Regular; for, if men knew the People, as aforesaid, they might know the consumption they would make, so as Trade might not be hoped for where it is impossible.
633 ページ - Free-Ports, | Coins, | Housing, | Liberty of Conscience, &c. | The same being frequently applied to the present | State and Affairs of Ireland.
645 ページ - Sir William Petty's | Political Survey | of | Ireland, | with the | Establishment of that King-|dom, when the Late Duke of Or-|mond was Lord Lieutenant ; | and also | An exact list of the present Peers, | Members of Parliament, and principal | Officers of State. | To which is added, | An Account of the Wealth and Ex-|pences of England, and the Me-|thod of raising Taxes in the most equal [ manner.
333 ページ - Plague-time, how the Sickness increased, or decreased, that so the Rich might judge of the necessity of their removal!, and Trades-men might conjecture what doings they were like to have in their respective dealings: 2.
347 ページ - Now, to make these Corrections upon the, perhaps, ignorant and careless Searchers Reports, I considered first of what Authority they were of themselves, that is, whether any credit at all were to be given to their Distinguishments : and finding that many of the Casualties were but matter of sense, as whether a Child were Abortive or...
337 ページ - London's Dreadful Visitation : Or, A Collection of All the Bills of Mortality For this Present year : Beginning the...
386 ページ - Whereas we have found, that of 100 quick Conceptions about 36 of them die before they be six years old, and that perhaps but one surviveth 76, we, having seven Decads between six and 76, we sought six mean proportional numbers...
324 ページ - Hides1) by asserting the usefulness of even all your preparatory and luciferous Experiments, being not the Ceremonies, but the substance and principles of useful Arts. For, I find in Trade the -want of an universal measure, and have heard Musicians wrangle about the just and uniform keeping of time in their Consorts, || and therefore cannot with patience hear, that your Labours about Vibrations, eminently conducing to both, should be slighted, nor your Pendula* called Swingswangs with scorn.