Political arithmetick, or, A discourse concerning the extent and value of lands, people, buildings ... as the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France / by Sir William Petty ...
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- Political arithmetick, or, A discourse concerning the extent and value of lands, people, buildings ... as the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France / by Sir William Petty ...
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- Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.
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- London :: Printed for Robert Clavel ... and Hen. Mortlock ...,
- 1690.
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- Great Britain -- Economic conditions.
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"Political arithmetick, or, A discourse concerning the extent and value of lands, people, buildings ... as the same relates to every country in general, but more particularly to the territories of His Majesty of Great Britain, and his neighbours of Holland, Zealand, and France / by Sir William Petty ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54621.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2025.
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TO THE KINGS Most Excellent MAJESTY.
SIR,
WHilest every one meditates some fit Offering for Your Majesty, such as may best agree with your happy
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Exaltation to this Throne; I presume to offer, what my Father long since writ, to shew the weight and importance of the English Crown.
It was by him stiled Poli∣tical Arithmetick, in as much as things of Govern∣ment, and of no less concern and extent, than the Glory of the Prince, and the hap∣piness and greatness of the People, are by the Ordina∣ry Rules of Arithmetick, brought into a sort of Demon∣stration. He was allowed by all, to be the Inventor of this Method of Instruction; where
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the perplexed and intricate ways of the World, are explain'd by a very mean peice of Science; and had not the Doctrins of this Essay offended France, they had long since seen the light, and had sound Fol∣lowers, as well as improve∣ments before this time, to the advantage perhaps of Man∣kind.
But this has been reserved to the felicity of Your Ma∣jesty's Reign, and to the expectation which the Learned have therein; and if while in this, I do some honor to the Memory of a good Father, I
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can also pay Service, and some Testimony of my Zeal and Reverence to so great a King, it will be the utmost Ambi∣tion of
SIR,
Your Majesty's Most Dutiful and Most Obedient Subject▪ Shelborne.