Mr. Harrison Weir, a successful breeder of prize Fantails, informs me that his male birds often have a greater number of tail-feathers than the females.
The presence of a greater number of digits than five is a great anomaly, for this number is not normally exceeded by any existing mammal, bird, or reptile.
It may therefore be asserted, as a general proposition, that the purpose of a democracy, in the conduct of its legislation, is useful to a greater number of citizens than that of an aristocracy.
A false notion, which is clear and precise, will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.
From the fact that the genus includes the species, in other words denotes more than the species, or is predicable of a greater number of individuals, it follows that the species must connote more than the genus.
But finding a greater number of sides concur in the one event than in the other, the mind is carried more frequently to that event, and meets it oftener, in revolving the various possibilities or chances, on which the ultimate result depends.
It may be objected to this theory, that a man may be supposed to have in his mind, the idea of the form and features of the female, rather than his own, and therefore there should be a greater number of female births.
He had shipped a greater number; but some, regardless of their own situation, and of the effect such an act might have on others, had been detected in the act of robbing the ship, and were turned on shore.
By constantly attacking them on their march they strip them of all their baggage; they besiege day and night those that resisted; when many were slain on both sides, they excite a greater number to arms.
But they completed their works first; both because they had a greater number of men, and because they had a smaller compass to enclose.
Democratic republics extend the practice of currying favor with the many, and they introduce it into a greater number of classes at once: this is one of the most serious reproaches that can be addressed to them.
A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.
It may therefore be asserted, as a general proposition, that the purpose of a democracy in the conduct of its legislation is useful to a greater number of citizens than that of an aristocracy.
Into the administration of these a greater number of individuals will expect to rise.
In the first case, he would have to corrupt a smaller number; in the last, a greater number.
There is little probability that there would be a greater number.
I have frequently beheld a greater number of dead bodies within as narrow a compass, though these, to speak the truth, were numerous enough, but wounds more disfiguring or more horrible I certainly never witnessed.
Thus we should see a greater number of stars when we looked out through the length of such a disc in any direction, than when we looked out through its breadth.
Instead of following this method of procedure, we place professional services within the reach of all, so that a greater number may be benefited.
Natural hermaphroditic reproduction occurs only among inferior classes of animals, and naturalists inform us that there are a greater number of these than of the more perfect varieties.
It is accomplished on the same general principles in animals, yet it presents more modifications and a greater number of organs than in vegetables.
This one short poem contains, perhaps, a greater number of happy single expressions which one could quote than all the extant tragedies of Sophocles.
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