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is an assembly of people, a congregation drawn together, to the end they may thereby the better live at their ease in wealth and plenty. Its greatness is not in the largeness of the site or the circuit of the walls, but the multitude and number of inhabitants and their power. Men are drawn together upon sundry causes and occasions thereunto them moving some by authority, some by force, some by pleasure and some by profit.

B206 A city is said to be an assembly of people, a congregation drawn together, to the end they may thereby the better live at their ease in wealth and plenty. And the greatness of a city is said to be not the largeness of the site or the circuit of the walls, but the multitude and number of inhabitants and their power. Now men are drawn together upon sundry causes and occasions thereunto them moving some by authority, some by force, some by pleasure and some by profit. Let no man think that a c'ty may go on in increase without ceasing. Some answer, the cause hereof is the plague, the wars, the dearths some others say, it is because God the governor of all things does so dispose. I say that the augmentation of cities proceeds partly out of the virtues generative of men, and partly out of the virtues nutritive of the cities. Treatise Concerning the Causes of the Magnificence and Greatness of Cities BOTERO, Giovanni (15437-1617)

's greatness is not based on the largeness of the site or the circuit of the walls, but the multitude and number of inhabitants and their power.

A city is said to be an assembly of people, a congregation drawn together, to the end they may thereby the better live at their ease in wealth and plenty. And the greatness of a city is said to be not the largeness of the site or the circuit of the walls, but the multitude and number of inhabitants and their power. Now men are drawn together upon sundry causes and occasions thereunto them moving some by authority, some by force, some by pleasure and some by profit. Let no man think that a city may go on in increase without ceasing . Some answer, the cause hereof is the plague, the wars, the dearths - some others say, it is because God the governor of all things does so dispose . I say that the augmentation of cities proceeds partly out of the virtues generative of men, and partly out of the virtues nutritive of the cities. Treatise Concerning the Causes of the Magnificence and Greatness of Cities

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