Nothing can be more evident than that the thirteen States will be able to support a national government better than one half, or one third, or any number
less than the whole.
It may even be given as a general rule, that the
less any part of the organisation is concerned with special habits, the more important it becomes for classification.
'Arthur,' continued I, relaxing my hold of his arm, 'you don't love me half as much as I do you; and yet, if you loved me far
less than you do, I would not complain, provided you loved your Maker more.
It is also much better for those tyrants who quit their kingdom to do this than to leave behind them money they have hoarded up; for their regents will be much
less desirous of making innovations, and they are more to be dreaded by absent tyrants than the citizens; for such of them as he suspects he takes with him, but these regents must be left behind.
Elinor had often wished for an opportunity of attempting to weaken her mother's dependence on the attachment of Edward and herself, that the shock might be
less when the whole truth were revealed, and now on this attack, though almost hopeless of success, she forced herself to begin her design by saying, as calmly as she could, "I like Edward Ferrars very much, and shall always be glad to see him; but as to the rest of the family, it is a matter of perfect indifference to me, whether I am ever known to them or not."
"Love never made a law so cruel, a law that would rob true lovers of each other's society for a whole month in a year, stretching them on the rack of absence--" There my period broke down, so I began another
less ambitiously planned.
Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are
less subject to envy.
When she was pink she was feeling
less then when pale; her more perfect beauty accorded with her
less elevated mood; her more intense mood with her
less perfect beauty.
He could not bear the idea of letting the enemy even reach Smolensk, still
less could he contemplate the burning of Moscow, and when our armies did unite he was displeased that Smolensk was abandoned and burned without a general engagement having been fought under its walls.
Then, my pupils being older, would be more rational, more teachable, and
less troublesome than the last; they would be
less confined to the schoolroom, and not require that constant labour and incessant watching; and, finally, bright visions mingled with my hopes, with which the care of children and the mere duties of a governess had little or nothing to do.
But it could not be
less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
I do not mean by this that one substance cannot be more or
less truly substance than another, for it has already been stated' that this is the case; but that no single substance admits of varying degrees within itself.