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And then she saw her father, an 'she leffen it to her father to make things right, an' he's made things right.
Sally of Missouri 1905
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One end of the axis of the wheel of forty-eight teeth is pointed, and works in the frame; the other end is fup - ported by, and works in, the bent arm g, which is fcrewed to the frame at h; but to leffen the fri6lion at i, in the bent arm g, a fcrew
Miscellaneous Experiments and Remarks on Electricity, the Air-pump, and the Barometer: With the ... Abraham Brook 1797
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But this does not remove his ill defert in any degree, or take away, or leffen, his obligation to obey the law perfeftly: And it remains as much the meafure and rule of duty to him, as ever it was.
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Lcaft of all do they expeft, that any future«par* liament will leffen its own powers, or communicate to the people that authority which 4t has oncfe ob - tained.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets 1787
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It be* came therefore an aft of policy, for his own eafe and the fecurity of his family, to leffen the power or the nobles, and give authority to tlie commons.
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The very courteous leffen their favours by giving them the appearance of a debt, through their fire - quent profeffions of kindnefs.
The miscellaneous works, in verse and prose, of Gorges Edmond Howard. .. 1782
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Ihould. be thrown over - board, in order to leffen the confumption of the proviGon that remained.
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It being the Property of thofe only who are diffident of their own Merit, to envy and endeavour to leffen their Neighbours, and becaufe t&ej are little, imagine that others are fo, whilft thofe who have noble Souls a 5 them -
Letters Concerning the Love of God, Between the Author of the Proposal to the Ladies, and Mr ... 1705
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It pnw t admit of doubt, that if goods were con - fidently lowered in their value by any means in England, that it mult prove of advantage to fomc individuals. individuals, to carry a greater quantity to the mar - kets of other countries; and as the quantity of gold and filver, which flowed into the different countries of Europe, raifed the nominal value of every fpecies of goods, fo any caufe which con - tributes to leffen the quantity of money in a country, nmft on the other hand lower their va - lue.
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• hope, did not tend to leffen a paflion, which INTERESTIN Ij,
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