The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
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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
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.
William Petty
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
William Petty
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
William Petty
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
William Petty
Now, forasmuch as princes are not only powerful but rich, according to a number of people (hands being the Father as lands are the Mother or Womb of Wealth), it is no wonder why states by encouraging marriage, advance their own interests.
William Petty
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