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.
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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
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
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
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
In the next place, it will be asked, who shall pay these men I answer, everybody.
William Petty
If great cities are naturally apt to remove their seats, I ask, which way I say, in the case of London it must be westward... If it follow from hence that the palaces of the greatest men will remove westward, it will also naturally follow that the dwelling of others who depend upon them will creep after them.
William Petty
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