Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. -William Petty

 

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.


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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
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I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.

William Petty
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No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. -William Petty
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Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

William Petty
166

In the next place, it will be asked, who shall pay these men? I answer, everybody.

William Petty
157
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
152

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
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