1
Free compulsory education will do nothing but augment the number of imbeciles.
2
It will not augment the number of office-holders, nor the exigencies of State; but the contrary.
3
To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,-thatis the object.
4
It will not augment the number of government functionaries, nor the exigencies of government officers; but the contrary.
5
The congress has not thought fit to augment the number of representatives in proportion to the increase of population.
6
The idea underlying the change was to avoid a superfluity of staff-officers, and to augment the number of actual combatants.
7
The monks endeavour to augment the number of little villages of their Missions, by taking advantage of the dissensions of the natives.
8
It was not enough, however, to augment the number of the people, it was equally necessary to prevent the ascension of a single man.
9
But as no one ever yet came to a fortunate end who quarrelled with the Church, Wallenstein also must augment the number of its victims.
10
His great reputation had certainly prodigiously augmented the number of his family.
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And how art widens its borders and augments the number of its adepts!
12
This extraordinary delusion, while it augmented the numbers, increased also the hardships of the pilgrims.
13
He writes not in the expectation of gathering wealth, or augmenting the number of his friends.
14
Administration of apoptotic cells augmented the number of Th2 and B lymphocytes recruited in the peritoneal cavity.
15
These men, who were regular Dervishes, were transported in sailing-boats to Omdurman; and augmented the number of prisoners of war already collected.
16
Ways and means being provided, Governor Dinwiddie augmented the number of troops to be enlisted to three hundred, divided into six companies.