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Verbum Sapienti.
most variety, wherein is the very form and being of pleasure; and by how much the more we have of this pleasure, by so much the more we are capable of it even ad Infinitum[1].
FINIS.
- ↑ A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to his Friend in the City touching Sir William Petty's posthumous Treatise entituled Verbum Sapienti: or, the Method of Raising Taxes in the most equal Manner (subscribed "H. J.") was printed by G. W. for William Miller, London, 1691, 4°. The author summarizes and in general approves Petty's conclusions but believes that Petty underestimated the amount of money necessary to the nation, and argues that the landlords bear more than their share of taxes. He thinks, therefore, that Petty's plan is defective in not proposing a compensatory tax upon non-owners of land.
