"multiplying glass" meaning in English

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          "text": "1694, N.H., The Ladies Dictionary, London: John Dunton, p. 95,\n[…] ten to one but a Lady gets an Enemy when she refuses a Lover—who is generally so unreasonable an Animal, that he does not consider, One poor Woman can suffice at once but for one Man; whereas if a Fam’d Beauty, or Fortune, she can never content all Pretenders—unless she had as many Bodies as she has Faces when she looks in a Multiplying Glass."
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          "ref": "1776, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 5, in A Survey of Experimental Philosophy, volume 2, London: T. Carnan and F. Newbery, page 284",
          "text": "It may have one side, which must be convex, ground into little facets, like those of some jewels, while the other side is plain. Children know it by the name of a multiplying glass […]",
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          "ref": "1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, New York: Harper & Brothers, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 384",
          "text": "When I look at a candle through a multiplying glass, I seem to see a dozen candles instead of one […]",
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        "A glass with a number of facets, causing an object to appear multiplied many times."
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          "ref": "a. 1631, John Donne, “Sermon preached upon Whitsunday”, in LXXX Sermons, London: Richard Royston, published 1640, page 343",
          "text": "Will he forgive that dim sight which I have of sin now, when sins scarce appeare to be sins unto me, and will he forgive that over-quick sight, when I shall see my sins through Satans multiplying glasse of desperation, when I shall thinke them greater then his mercy, upon my death bed?",
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          "text": "1631, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, London: Thomas Alchorne, Act I, Scene 1,\nporing through a multiplying glasse, / Vpon a captiu’d crab-louse, or a cheese-mite / To be dissected, as the sports of nature, / With a neat Spanish needle"
        },
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          "ref": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 18, in Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, page 94",
          "text": "For all men are by nature provided of notable multiplying glasses, (that is their Passions and Selfe-love,) through which, every little payment appeareth a great grievance; but are destitute of those prospective glasses, (namely Morall and Civill Science,) to see a farre off the miseries that hang over them, and cannot without such payments be avoyded.",
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        "A magnifying glass."
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        "(obsolete) A magnifying glass."
      ],
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          "word": "multiplying lens"
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  "word": "multiplying glass"
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          "text": "1694, N.H., The Ladies Dictionary, London: John Dunton, p. 95,\n[…] ten to one but a Lady gets an Enemy when she refuses a Lover—who is generally so unreasonable an Animal, that he does not consider, One poor Woman can suffice at once but for one Man; whereas if a Fam’d Beauty, or Fortune, she can never content all Pretenders—unless she had as many Bodies as she has Faces when she looks in a Multiplying Glass."
        },
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          "ref": "1776, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 5, in A Survey of Experimental Philosophy, volume 2, London: T. Carnan and F. Newbery, page 284",
          "text": "It may have one side, which must be convex, ground into little facets, like those of some jewels, while the other side is plain. Children know it by the name of a multiplying glass […]",
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          "ref": "1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, New York: Harper & Brothers, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 384",
          "text": "When I look at a candle through a multiplying glass, I seem to see a dozen candles instead of one […]",
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          "ref": "a. 1631, John Donne, “Sermon preached upon Whitsunday”, in LXXX Sermons, London: Richard Royston, published 1640, page 343",
          "text": "Will he forgive that dim sight which I have of sin now, when sins scarce appeare to be sins unto me, and will he forgive that over-quick sight, when I shall see my sins through Satans multiplying glasse of desperation, when I shall thinke them greater then his mercy, upon my death bed?",
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          "text": "1631, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, London: Thomas Alchorne, Act I, Scene 1,\nporing through a multiplying glasse, / Vpon a captiu’d crab-louse, or a cheese-mite / To be dissected, as the sports of nature, / With a neat Spanish needle"
        },
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          "ref": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 18, in Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, page 94",
          "text": "For all men are by nature provided of notable multiplying glasses, (that is their Passions and Selfe-love,) through which, every little payment appeareth a great grievance; but are destitute of those prospective glasses, (namely Morall and Civill Science,) to see a farre off the miseries that hang over them, and cannot without such payments be avoyded.",
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        "(obsolete) A magnifying glass."
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