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ty of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature. Addison.

Not contested. Addison.

put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community. Addison.

To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence. I will increase the famine. Ezek. v. 16. Make denials Increase your services. Shak.

Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. "Large increment." J. Philips.

figures, gracefully leaning upon it. Sir H. Wotton. To move the incumbent load they try. Addison.

Blair. Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy; they would be immoral. Addison.

Ill desert. [R.] Addison.

orals must be removed before Catholics can read them. These catalogues are published with additions, from time to time, by the Congregation of the Index, composed of cardinals, theologians, etc., under the sanction of the pope. Hook. -- Index rerum Etym: [L.], a tabulated and alphabetized notebook, for systematic pres…

t stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness. Addison.

s which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are highest importance. Addison.

oice more than to another; neutral; impartial. Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die. Addison.

ndigent faint souls past corporal toil. Shak. Charity consists in relieving the indigent. Addison.

st with individuality. The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison. N. Drake.

In an indolent manner. Calm and serene you indolently sit. Addison.

te upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.

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ab, etc. The country is cut into so many hills and inequalities as renders it defensible. Addison.

f-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Addison.

ssion; as, to be infatuated with gaming. The people are . . . infatuated with the notion. Addison.