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This appeared to him the primary step towards manhood, and he was proportionably pleased.

The third is the shoemaker (or some other tradesman), whose labour suffers proportionably by the same cause.

The interest of money is proportionably so.

That in those times of poverty and barbarism these were proportionably much cheaper than corn is undoubtedly true.

Tarbosaurus had tiny forelimbs, proportionably to body size the smallest of all members of the family.

The nearest of the fixed stars is inconceivably distant from the earth, and they are probably proportionably distant from each other.

If he imports a slave, he adds one to the number of labourers in his country, and proportionably to it's profits & abilities to pay taxes.

I knew him most intimately, and valued him proportionably; but I am recurring--so let us talk of life and the living.

It is a law universally true, that the further effects depart from their causes, the power of retaining their own qualities is proportionably weakened and diminished.

Indeed, the wine of the latter island is far superior to that of the former; but then it can only be purchased by a sum of money proportionably larger.

'The crisis of the strait however arose further on a little; where the crowded market-place had to introduce itself into a street,--straight indeed and good, but proportionably far too narrow.

A change indeed had taken place in me; my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise, rose proportionably.

His pride, his affections, his superstitions, are all directed towards fewer objects; but the wounds inflicted on them are proportionably severe, and furnish motives of hostility, which we cannot sufficiently appreciate.

Which reasons will hold proportionably for parishes not granting certificates in ordinary cases; for it is far more than an equal chance, but that they will have the certificated persons again, and in a worse condition."

But wherever you depart, in the least, from the similarity of the cases, you diminish proportionably the evidence; and may at last bring it to a very weak analogy, which is confessedly liable to error and uncertainty.

Nor is this only because we believe that they will obtain an immortality of fame, or that they will have crowns of glory in another world, when their enemies and persecutors will be proportionably tormented.

In the final paragraph Franklin argues that immigration should come from the "Saxons" of England and Saxony, asserting that "the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small".

As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.

The state, not knowing how to tax, directly and proportionably, the revenue of its subjects, endeavours to tax it indirectly by taxing their expense, which, it is supposed, will in most cases be nearly in proportion to their revenue.

The twelfth law is that such things as cannot be divided, be enjoyed in common, if it can be; and if the quantity of the thing permit, without stint; otherwise proportionably to the number of them that have right.

Cram not in people, by sending too fast company after company; but rather harken how they waste, and send supplies proportionably; but so, as the number may live well in the plantation, and not by surcharge be in penury.

But yet, upon a stricter inquiry, I am forced to conclude that good, the greater good, though apprehended and acknowledged to be so, does not determine the will, until our desire, raised proportionably to it, makes us uneasy in the want of it.

Though both the gold and silver mines of America exceeded in fertility all those which had ever been known before, the fertility of the silver mines had, it seems, been proportionably still greater than that of the gold ones.

They are dressed by men till four years of age, and then are obliged to dress themselves, although their quality be ever so great; and the women attendant, who are aged proportionably to ours at fifty, perform only the most menial offices.

This inequality, striking as it is, will be yet highly aggravated if we suppose, as we fairly may, the several other cantons of the commune to fall proportionably short of the average population, as much as the principal canton exceeds it.