PANTILE Several OBJECTIONS against Dr. Price's Obfervations on To which is added, A fhort, eafy, and more concife METHOD Calculating the VALUE of ANNUITIES and Than any heretofore published. By CHARLES BRAND. LONDON: Printed for W. OWEN, near Temple-Bar, Fleet - Street; MDCCLXXV. [iii] INTRODUCTION. T HE Subject of the following Trea tife being of fuch univerfal Concern, it is apprehended that any Apology for making it public is unneceffary; and that it is likewise unneceffary to apologize for the Liberty I have taken to declare in what I differ from a Gentleman, whose Opinions have been lately much countenanced and adopted; the great Refpéct paid to that Gentleman's mathematical Publications having rendered a public Difquifition of them the more requifite, as fuch a Difquifition may tend to obviate the Miftakes which he has either from Error or Defign endeavoured to promulge. Several erroneous and imperfect Accounts and Obfervations having been published, relative to the Principles on which the Amicable Society was founded, I have introdu |