The meafure of the ratio of a greater quantity to a leffer is. pofitive; as this ratio, compounded with any - other ratio, increafes it. ❋ Unknown (1797)
Thofe leffer fires about this round which run, hi but the fame, which under Saturn's reign. ❋ Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. Cn (1795)
Thought his pain and fhame would be leffer If on womankind he might his anger wreak, ❋ Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. Cn (1795)
[A] For, though the objedion is, that there can be no remaindtr of that whereof there is no reveriion; yet the intent of the party gives the rent de rm*§ firft a being for the whole, and then the leffer eftates are carved out of it. ❋ William Peere Williams (1793)
THE CONVENTION.ami. conup. unity; and I confuler Uie peaple of tke different ftates, as forming communities again ou a leffer, fcale. ❋ James Wilson, Thomas McKean (1792)
It would be of little fervice to the views of the Society, for tiie author of this paper to defcribe to tliem all the different leffer lifaing nations upon the Weil coail, with which he is acquainted: there are num - ❋ Highland Society Of Scotland (1791)
Then they form a natural rampart about the leffer properties in all their gradations. ❋ Unknown (1790)
But though initiated in Phoenician literature, they were not fulBcicntly powerful for giving the law in language in the greater ifle, as their brethcrn the Milefians did, in the leffer. ❋ Unknown (1786)
Fergus, the fecond fon of Fingal, was, at that time, on an expedition, which is men - tioned in one of the leffer poems. ❋ Unknown (1784)
The general colour greenifli brown: bill and eyes black; above the eyes a fulvous ftripe, and a leffer one of the fame bcncatii them: the chin fulvous: bread black: legs grey. ❋ Unknown (1783)
This country abounds with game of the leffer feathered tribes, fuch as doves, quails, nd other birds of paflage. ❋ Unknown (1783)
The praife he applies in a higher, is acceptable to himfelf in a leffer fphere, and no man pays at a dearer rate for panegyric f. ❋ Unknown (1782)
The trade was funk, the fleet and army fpent j Devouring taxes fwallow'd leffer rent j Taxes impos'd by no authority; ❋ Unknown (1779)
It is a redemption from the greateft evils, fin, and the wrath of God; — of the greateft benefits, peace with God, pardpa, and eternal life; — perform -, cd by the greateft of perfons, the Son of God; and could be performed by* no leffer one, being above the reach of angels and men; — purchafed by the paying of the greateft ranfom, the blood of God. ❋ Unknown (1773)
But if one of them much exceeds the others it will in general be fufficicnt to take thd neat-eft number in the Tabic fbr the leffer; ❋ Unknown (1773)
For the fpace of fome Englifo miles, we had hills and rocks on the wef - tern banks of the river; and a change of leffer and greater mountains and vallies cover - ed with young firs, red cedars, and oaks, on the eaftern fide. ❋ Unknown (1770)
V/hofe fame in thine, like leffer cuxreuxs, i All that we have, and that we are, fubfifts. ❋ Unknown (1767)
The afl: is fimilar and uniform, having no o - ther difference but that of a greater or leffer Intenfnefsor Application (which is only a gra - dual, not ja fpectfick difference) but the Ideal Objeft is various and multiform, and 'tis thQn it felf as in that determination df Motion which w? call Reflex, but how or what it is I do not well underhand, and therefore Hiall hot go about tq explain, ❋ Unknown (1704)
Cck nature of the thing, as in the chufing of a leffer Evil for the avoiding of a greater, Ihp - pofe Phjfick for the avoiding of Sicknefs. ❋ Unknown (1704)
How men fhould demean themfelvcs in matters of leffer mo - ment In what method the obligation of things is to be ftated? ❋ Unknown (1701)
