At the moment my increase of fortune encreases my actual poverty.
The plague encreases in many places, and is 53 this week with us.
The plague, I hear, encreases in the towne much, and exceedingly in the country everywhere.
The smell or scent thereof is somewhat near unto Bazil; it encreases by the root under ground as all the others do.
The juice snuffed up in the nose purgeth the head, it cleanses filthy ulcers, encreases milk in nurses, and outwardly by ointment helps leprosies.
Rocket seed, provokes urine, stirs up lust, encreases seed, kills worms, eases pains of the spleen.
Saffron powerfully concocts, and sends out whatever humour offends the body, drives back inflammations; applied outwardly, encreases venery, and provokes urine.
Fennel seed, breaks wind, provokes urine and the menses, encreases milk in nurses.
It encreases Trade and Correspondence betwixt the Colonys there.
It encreases the Revenue of the Post Office in England.
This new emotion is easily converted into the predominant passion, and encreases its violence, beyond the pitch it would have arrived at had it met with no opposition.
When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neitherencreases nor diminishes.
In like manner a man, who is not dejected by misfortunes, is the more lamented on account of his patience; and if that virtue extends so far as utterly to remove all sense of uneasiness, it still farther encreases our compassion.
The lively idea of the places passes by an easy transition to the facts, which are supposed to have been related to them by contiguity, and encreases the belief by encreasing the vivacity of the conception.
Thus, because the gravity of a body encreases or diminishes by the encrease or diminution of its parts, we conclude that each part contains this quality and contributes to the gravity of the whole.
Though a removal in the past, when very great, encreases our passions beyond a like removal in the future, yet a small removal has a greater influence in diminishing them.
It is thus our uncertainty concerning any minute circumstance relating to a person encreases our apprehensions of his death or misfortune.
As belief is an act of the mind arising from custom, it is not strange the want of resemblance should overthrow what custom has established, and diminish the force of the idea, as much as that latter principle encreases it.
We have also instances, wherein an indifference and insensibility under misfortune encreases our concern for the misfortunate, even though the indifference proceed not from any virtue and magnanimity.
There is not in my opinion any other natural cause, why security diminishes the passions, than because it removes that uncertainty, which encreases them.
And now I protest, my Arabella, by all that's happy, your want of fortune this moment encreases my pleasure, as it serves to convince my sweet girl of my sincerity.
To the first eternity is but a single blessing, since at most it but encreases what they already possess.
The plague, I hear, encreases in the town much, and exceedingly in the country every where.
No news, only the plague is very hot still, andencreases among the Dutch.
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