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And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.

Ulysses 2003

Buys said that 120 of the country's 843 municipalities were not yet at the 90% readiness level, but that the number was di - minishing daily.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

But the husband, on the other hand, when he has received the baneful evil [19] into his house, rejoices, having added a beautiful decoration to a most vile image, and tricks her out with robes, unhappy man, while he has been insensibly minishing the wealth of the family.

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Now these were far fewer in number, the godlike wooers minishing them at their feasts, for the swineherd ever sent in the best of all the fatter hogs.

Book XIV Homer 1909

The tokens of leprosy be most seen in the utter parts, as in the feet, legs, and face; and namely in wasting and minishing of the brawns of the body.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

Now these were far fewer in number, the godlike wooers minishing them at their feasts, for the swineherd ever sent in the best of all the fatted hogs.

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

The priests and knights that repaired to the castle loved Perceval much, for, so far from his goodness minishing in ought, they saw from day to day how his valour and his faith in God increased and multiplied.

The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

So I told her in plain words, neither 'minishing nor adding, how I had found them, and the story I had heard from the poor woman.

In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864

D.rwin got his main postulate, the pressure of population on the available means of subsistence, from the treatise of Malthus on Population, just as he got his other postulate of a practically unlimited time for that pressure to operate from the geologist Lyell, who made an end of Archbishop Ussher's Biblical estimate of the age of the earth as 4004 B.C. plus A.D. The treatises of the Ricardian economists on the Law of D.minishing Return, which was only the

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903