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The three other iflands are lefler, each not exceeding ten leagues in length, five in breadth, and twenty-five in circuit.
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- * - Of courfe, there are five inferior Courts of Juftice, yrbcvt lefler offences, committed in London and its vicinity, are tried by Juftices of the Peace.
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and ... Patrick Colquhoun 1797
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The finuefes contained but little mat - ter* The other horfe appeared to be radically, cured; which I afcribed to the good habit of the animal's body, the fmall quan - tity, of the virus, its lefler degree of malignancy, andthefliort time it was allowed to ravage, rather than to the courfe of medi - cines* Befides, in thefe matters,
Sporting Magazine 1796
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The lefler diftrifts of this country were Hy Lcareigh, Hy Maghoneigh, and Hy Drifcuil, under the dominion of their refpcaive chiefs,
Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population Seward, William Wenman 1795
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A feeling for my reputation, I muft confefs, had alfo its Ihare, though infinitely in the lefler degree*
Theory of tides, tr. [extr. from Études de la nature]. Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre 1795
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And fuch fchifms may be among orthodox divines about lefler points and yet managed without giviog offcncei 2.
Sacramental Meditations and Advices Grounded Upon Scripture Texts: Proper for Communicants, to ... 1793
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Rcvcrfc, within a like triangular harp, a crcfcent, and blazing ftar or planet, (as we fee upon his brother Richard* s firft great feal) and three lefler ftars in the angles, each point of the triangle terminating in a crofs pate, and the like crofs on each fide, above the legend, roberd on dive.
An Historical Account of English Money: Illus. with Copper Plates and Tables of Gold and Silver ... Stephen Martin Leake 1793
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John, I take OCi; r« — Oficr is the aquatic and lefler Salix.
The Childrens' Companion: Or, Entertaining Instructor for the Youth of Both Sexes; Designed, to ... 1792
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Oh, that I were as great As is my grief, or lefler than my name!
The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes William Shakespeare , Joseph Rann 1791
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Then they form a natural rampart about the lefler properties in all their gradations.
Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London ... 1790
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