The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, Том 2

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The University Press, 1899 - Всего страниц: 313
 

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Стр. 654 - A letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend in the city concerning Sir William Petty's posthumous treatise entitled Verbum Sapienti.
Стр. 384 - 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.
Стр. 374 - ... 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...
Стр. 623 - Free-Ports, Coins, | Housing, | Liberty of Consci-|ence, &c. | The same being frequently applied to the present | State and Affairs of Ireland.
Стр. 380 - Which shews, that the opener and freer Airs are most subject: both to the good and bad Impressions, and that the Fumes, Steams and Stenches of London do so medicate and impregnate the Air about it, that it becomes capable of little more...
Стр. 643 - Transplantation discussed; or certain Considerations, wherein the many great inconveniences in Transplanting the Natives of Ireland generally out of the three Provinces of Leinster, Ulster, and Munster into the Province of Connaught are shown, humbly tendered to every individual Member of Parliament by a Well-wisher to the good of the Commonwealth of England,
Стр. 363 - It appearing, that there were fourteen Men to thirteen Women, and that they die in the same proportion also ; yet I have heard Physicians say, that they have two Women Patients to one Man, which Assertion seems very likely ; for that Women have either the Green-sickness, or other like Distempers, are sick of Breedings, Abortions, Child-bearing, Sore-breasts, Whites, Obstructions, Fits of the Mother, and the like.
Стр. 635 - 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.
Стр. 321 - 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.
Стр. 343 - Killed by falls from Scaffolds, or by Carts running over them, &c. because the same depends upon the casual Trade and Employment of men, and upon matters which are but circumstantial to the Seasons and Regions we live in, and affords little of that Science and Certainty we aim at.

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