Essays on
Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic
作者：Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687; Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 [Author of introduction, etc.]
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共 72 题- ESSAYS ON MANKIND AND POLITICAL ARITHMETIC
- INTRODUCTION.
- H. M.
- THE STATIONER TO THE READER.
- 7. How 10,000 people in a colony may be planted to the best advantage.
- 10. Whether the speedy peopling of the earth would make
- THE PRINCIPAL POINTS OF THIS DISCOURSE.
- 4. That the growth of London must stop of itself before the year 1800.
- 8. How the city of London may be made (morally speaking) invincible.
- 9. A help to uniformity in religion.
- 12. That an exact account of the people is necessary in this matter.
- OF THE GROWTH OF THE CITY OF LONDON:
- According to which latter table there died as follows:—
- THE LATTER OF THE SAID TWO TABLES.
- 1. For the defence of the kingdom against foreign powers.
- 2. For preventing the intestine commotions of parties and factions.
- 3. For peace and uniformity in religion.
- 4. For the administration of justice.
- 6. For gain by foreign commerce.
- 7. For husbandry, manufacture, and for arts of delight and ornament.
- 8. For lessening the fatigue of carriages and travelling.
- 9. For preventing beggars and thieves.
- 10. For the advancement and propagation of useful learning.
- 11. For increasing the people by generation.
- 8. As for lessening the fatigue of carriage and travelling.
- 9. As to the preventing of beggars and thieves.
- 10. As to the propagation and improvement of useful learning.
- 12. As to the plague.
- POSTSCRIPT.
- FURTHER OBSERVATION UPON THE DUBLIN BILLS;
- THE STATIONER TO THE READER.
- DUBLIN, 1682.
- The table hath been made for the year 1682, wherein is to be noted—
- 7. What hath been said of Dublin, serves also for London.
- TABLE A—YEARLY BILLS OF MORTALITY FOR
- TABLE B.—DUBLIN.
- TABLE C.
- CASUALTIES AND DISEASES.
- A POSTSCRIPT TO THE STATIONER.
- TWO ESSAYS IN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC,
- TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
- Your Majesty’s
- AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC
- 9. As to the plentiful and easy living of the people we say,
- AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC,
- OBSERVATIONS UPON THE CITIES OF LONDON AND ROME.
- FIVE ESSAYS IN POLITICAL ARITHMETIC.
- II. A comparison between London and Paris in 14 particulars.
- V. Concerning Holland and the rest of the Seven United Provinces.
- TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
- SIR,
- Your Majesty’s
- THE FIRST ESSAY.
- THE SECOND ESSAY.
- THE THIRD ESSAY.
- I know but three ways of finding the same.
- 1. By the houses, and families, and heads living in each.
- To know the number of houses, I used three methods, viz.—
- Now to prove that one dies out of 30 at London or thereabouts, I say—
- THE FOURTH ESSAY.
- 1. That the people of
- 3. That the same two English cities seem equivalent
- 4. That the King of England’s three cities, viz.:
- THE FIFTH ESSAY.
- The worthy person who makes this objection in the same letter also saith—
- OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
- From which hypothesis it will follow by an orderly series of increase—
- Whereby it follows—
- SCHEME A.
- SCHEME B.
- SCHEME C.
- FOOTNOTES.