William Petty Quote

The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.


Several Essays in Political Arithmetick (ed. 1755)


The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have...

The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have...

The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have...

The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have...