 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1814 - 924 páginas
...afterwards printed by order of the Royal Society. Among other remarks in his Epistle Dedicatory, he says, that ' London, the Metropolis of England, is perhaps...that this head grows three times as fast as the body to which it belongs ; that our parishes are now grown madly disproportionate ; that our Temples are... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - 1814 - 936 páginas
...afterwards printed by order of the Royal Society. Among other remarks in his Epistle Dedicatory, he says, that ' London, the Metropolis of England, is perhaps...for the body, and possibly too strong ; that this bead grows three times as fast as the body to which it belongs ; that our parishes are now grown madly... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1814 - 932 páginas
...afterwards printed by order of tiie Royal Society. Among other remarks in his Epistle Dedicatory, he says, that ' London, the Metropolis of England, is perhaps...for the body, and possibly too strong ; that this bead grows three times as fast as the body to which it belongs ; that our parishes are now grown madly... | |
 | 1814 - 1004 páginas
...his Epistle Dedicatory, he says, that ' London, the Metropolis of England, is perhaps a head too hig for the body, and possibly too strong ; that this head grows three times as fast Mb the body to which it belongs ; that our parishes are now grown madly disproportionate ; that our... | |
 | Rowland Dobie - 1829 - 472 páginas
...book at this period called "Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality," in which he says, " London is, perhaps, a head too big; for the body, and possibly too strong ; that this head grows three times as big as the body to which it belongs; tint our parishes are grown madly disproportionate; that our temples... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1892 - 798 páginas
...and females ; that the opinion of plagues accompanying the entry of kings is false and seditious ; that London the metropolis of England is perhaps a...times as fast as the body unto which it belongs, that is, it \ioubles the people in a third part of the time4." Another Fellow of the Royal Society8, Sir... | |
 | 1895 - 768 páginas
...showing himself, as Mr. Bevan thinks, to be a physician, he constantly disclaims this. Graunt's view ' that London, the Metropolis of England, is perhaps...Head too big for the Body, and possibly too strong,' is directly opposed to Petty's desire for a greater London. And the similarities of views and language,... | |
 | Sir William Petty - 1899 - 424 páginas
...Athenae Oxon. I. 311. 2 The contagion being in the air, p. 350. perhaps a Head too big for the Body1, and possibly too strong : That this Head grows three...times as fast as the Body unto which it belongs ; that is, It doubles its People in a third part of the time : That our Parishes are now grown madly disproportionable... | |
 | Wilhelm Hasbach - 1908 - 502 páginas
...seventeenth century that Graunt's Natural and Political Observations, published in 1662, says that "the Metropolis of England is perhaps a Head too big...possibly too strong, that this Head grows three times so fast as the Body unto which it belongs." About the same date Petty, anticipating its future growth,... | |
 | Julian L. Simon - 258 páginas
...and Females: That the Opinions of Plagues accompanying the Entrance of Kings is false, and seditious: That London, the Metropolis of England, is perhaps...times as fast as the Body unto which it belongs, that is, It doubles its People in a third part of the time: That our Parishes are now grown madly disproportionable:... | |
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That London, the Metropolis of England, is perhaps a Head too big for the Body, and possibly too strong: That this Head grows three times as fast as the Body unto which it belongs... 
