His treatise is based on traditional English opinion of the middle ages, with an increment of Horace, of whom he thinks so highly as to append to his treatise an English translation of the "Cannons or generall cautions of poetry," which Georgius Fabricius Chemnicensis (1560) had digested from the Ars Poetica, and the Epistles.

A.The same as that followed by air, in which the increments in volume are very nearly in the same proportion as the increments in temperature; and the increment in volume for each degree of increased temperature is 1/490th part of the volume at 32°.

In this very queer season it appears as though the final freezing is to be reached by gradual increments to the firmly established ice.

Most of them are absentees whose one thought is to secure a maximum of unearned increment from tillers of the soil.

The revisions of the Tweedmouth Inter-Departmental Committee came into force in 1897, involving many concessions to the male staff, and simultaneously the minimum salary of the Women Clerks was, without any warning, reduced for new entrants to £55 per annum, and the increment for the first six years was reduced to £2, 10s.

Humanity is rebelling against the continuing existence of a labour class as such, and I can see no way by which our present method of weekly wages employment can change by imperceptible increments into a method of salary and pensionfor it is quite evident that only by reaching that shall we reach the end of these present discontents.

Washington's wealth was due in part to inheritance and a fortunate marriage, but most of all to the increment on land.