| 单词 | preponderating |
| 例句 | In sum, while most of the evidence points to a preponderating importance of the nuclear matter, it cannot be said to be an established proposition that the nuclear matter is the germ-plasm. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The principle involved in this preponderating e. m. f. he explains in this way: Suppose a conductor is moved into the magnetic field and then suddenly withdrawn. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z One of the results of this movement, consequent upon the preponderating attention given to colour and technique, has been an almost entire neglect of subject. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z If Condorcet wrote just before his death his immortal Sketch, Voltaire took a preponderating part in the creation of the intellectual atmosphere in which Condorcet lived and could develop his genius. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Hence the will-reason exhibits its existence in them as a preponderating majority of freemen, or in its “reflectional” universality, which has its actuality vouchsafed it as a participation in the sovereignty. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z It has, however, on the highest authority since transpired that when in 1874 Mr Disraeli took office, he had already decided upon acquiring for England a preponderating interest in the international waterway. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The Jesuits obtained at an early day a preponderating influence in Canada and in Acadia. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The juries made their presentments in respect of large masses of peasantry, under the preponderating influence of the gentry and without much chance for the verification of particular instances. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z There is a large foreign element in the population, the Germans preponderating. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z This law of nature becomes most apparent when one compares the preponderating power of Rome against Carthage, with its weakness against the Cimbri and Mithradates. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z After crossing the Great Wall and staying in China proper, I still found the preponderating Muscovite influence. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z But for the preponderating influence of the Dutch Government the two disputants would long before have resorted to war. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z There’s a preponderating number of unattached young men in the newly-opened parts of the Dominion.” The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z I did not blench when I learned that, judicial executions apart, ninety-nine per cent. of hangings were suicidal, so that, certain other precautions being observed, a presumption could be made preponderatingly probable. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Mr. Egerton, the indignation preponderating over the amusement.—"Probably just as I am about to do." The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z Their voice in such matters has a preponderating influence. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z The more difficult expression is adopted by preponderating textual authorities, and “his house” is regarded as a correction to make the sense easier. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z "Certainly," he says, "the part taken by the missionaries in expeditions of this character, was a preponderating one." Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z The subsequent marshalling of the cells is disguised by their association with a preponderating mass of inert material. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z England is so preponderatingly clean-shaven that a beard always arouses my suspicions. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Such, indeed, appears to be the conviction of the human societies which assign a preponderating rôle to Science. The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z But even the advocates of the omission allow that the clause has “preponderating support,” and the sentence is painfully incomplete and abrupt without it. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z It must be observed, that in all these changes accident has no part: they all are the result of the presence of a victorious and preponderating race. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Its effect may struggle as it will: it sinks under the preponderating mass as a butterfly will be beaten down under a dirty, drenching, city rain. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z The condition was enjoined upon them that whenever “decidedly preponderating evidence” constrained their adoption of some change in “the Text from which the Authorized Version was made,” they should indicate such alteration in the margin. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z Bird’s-eye view of the Philippine Archipelago, showing the preponderating importance of Luzon. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z I think it must necessarily be so in all countries which are most rapidly increasing in riches, for from whence do riches come but from production preponderating over consumption? Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 2011-06-09T02:00:21.460Z What we term national character, is the aggregate of the qualities preponderating in a community. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z He sees so much to say on all sides that he never clearly defines on which side lies the preponderating reasoning. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z That it enjoys “clearly preponderating evidence,” is what no person, fair or unfair, will for an instant venture to pretend. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z But only by exerting the whole available strength of the VIIIth Corps had it been possible to withstand the preponderating attack of the enemy. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Suspense between hope and dread, dread preponderating, 132 is the state of feeling represented in the present chorus. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Their articles are the streak of light in the dimness of the preponderating political literature of the week. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Moreover, even those who attribute to the "syndicate" of factors a preponderating power over historical progress do not attribute to intelligence a greater influence than we recognize as belonging to it. Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism 2011-04-27T02:00:20.770Z Verily, my lord Bishop, your notion of what constitutes “clearly preponderating Evidence” must be freely admitted to be at once original and peculiar. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z To produce an act of choice, therefore, we have only to awaken a preponderating desire. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z Though they certainly function to a preponderating extent, it has been shown that gaseous particles can act similarly, particularly when air is ionized. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z They were aware of their preponderating numbers, and counted on the sympathy of the soldiers. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z Galicia is a preponderatingly agricultural land and possesses the densest agricultural population in Europe. Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 2011-03-01T03:00:45.597Z Do you seriously imagine that the testimony on your side is “decidedly preponderating”? The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z The “personal laws” began to transmute themselves into local customs, and the Roman vulgar-law began to look like the local custom of those districts where the Romani were the preponderating element in the population. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Only in Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire and parts of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire do they seem to have settled thickly 471 and formed a preponderating element in the countryside. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Aid was afterwards extended to schools of the ‘Division B’ type in which science did not form the preponderating element of the instruction given. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Thus the Jews were largely concentrated in commerce and industry, the non-Jews preponderatingly concentrated in agriculture. Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 2011-03-01T03:00:45.597Z You contend that there is “decidedly preponderating evidence” for reading instead, “Great Is the mystery of godliness, who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,” &c.: The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z They were mostly foreigners—English and Irish preponderating. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Every man has some one preponderating object in life,—an object that he aims at and holds supreme. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z The later civilisations may, therefore, be said to have profited by centuries of untruthfulness in that they have learnt the preponderating advantages of an intelligible code of truth. A Cursory History of Swearing In each of these countries, again, the Jews are essentially town dwellers in the midst of preponderatingly rural populations. Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 2011-03-01T03:00:45.597Z The preponderating elements of the ectodermic layer are elongated columnar cells, each containing a nucleus, and bearing cilia at their free extremities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The men were athletic and well-proportioned, and the young women chubby, and blooming with the blended tints of the lily and the rose—the rose rather preponderating. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z No sooner had they reached it, than the attack began in real earnest, and with a preponderating force in that direction. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 See what a preponderating influence is given at this day to grace. The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski Amidst populations preponderatingly devoted to agricultural occupations and dwelling in villages, the Jews represent an industrial and commercial people, strongly concentrated in towns. Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 2011-03-01T03:00:45.597Z After completing his collegiate course he commenced the study of law under Chancellor Wythe, whose liberal views were calculated to mature and strengthen those already preponderating in the mind of Jefferson. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution The preponderating influence in morphogenesis is osmotic pressure, the osmotic forms varying with its intensity, distribution, and mode of application. The Mechanism of Life If at any time the counsels of that country had been harmonious and united, they would have had a powerful, perhaps a preponderating, effect upon Cuban affairs. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 The failing power of Sweden, the already beginning process of dissolution in Poland, occasioned perplexity of views; the preponderating power of France, the suspicious friendship of Holland, necessitated prompt and vigorous foresight. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. Sometimes the energetic development of some particular national characteristic, exercises for centuries a preponderating influence on another. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. And it transpired that he had sold a preponderating interest in Le Mot d’Ordre to Ferez Bey, who was operating the paper in German interests through orders directly from Berlin. The Moonlit Way Henceforth in place of the relation of producer to consumer has been substituted, as preponderating element in human dealings, the relation of the artist to the art-lover. Underground Man She, with her tacit omissions, was the influence almost preponderating. The Furnace He required a strong counterpoise against the preponderating power of Russia, and diplomatic entanglements with Austria. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. To this common feeling there were many brilliant exceptions; and the more brilliant because they stood, as it were, apart from the preponderating mass of public judgment. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency But certainly they also would be unworthy of a hearing who would feign that the early Scriptures do not give a vast, a preponderating weight, to the concerns of our life on earth. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Thereby he has given in sociology a preponderating place to the individual, and the accidental, and has thus separated himself from the most general tendencies of thought in our times which are those of Comte. Underground Man This quite distinctive local character suggests that the cities in question played a certain preponderating role, a hypothesis with which the scanty documentary evidence is in agreement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" The feeling in the county was preponderatingly against her. The Great Miss Driver The preponderating engineering opinion is that the city should not widen Adams Street,-14- but remove the structure to the half block east of Adams Street. Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn While foreign investment is preponderatingly of this sort, however, there also exist the beginnings of a movement more truly international. American World Policies The fight was another proof of the fact that, in all such engagements, the preponderating advantage is with the land batteries. The Greater Republic A History of the United States To the deep respect for Olga's wisdom a Russian annalist ascribes a preponderating influence in the introduction of Christianity into Russia from the Byzantine Empire rather than from Rome. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) It was carried in the other States by small majorities; and especially in Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia by little more than a preponderating vote. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 In order to the formation of a well-defined corona it is essential that the particles be exclusively, or preponderatingly, of one size. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" But these events not only did not end but actually intensified war, while bringing out more sharply its preponderatingly economic character. American World Policies As it was, he had already occupied about one-third of the island with a loss of only three killed and twenty-eight wounded, against a preponderating force of 17,000 Spaniards. The Greater Republic A History of the United States If we knew all the preponderating influences of heredity for ages, we could with almost mathematical accuracy compute the traits of human biology in every case. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) But it is not to be believed that they form any preponderating or influential part of that army of young men who are the to-morrow of our great republic. Maids Wives and Bachelors Not indeed at Trichinopoli, for Captain Gingens, who commanded there, though a brave man, was scarcely equal to taking a bold initiative in face of the preponderating troops of the enemy. Rulers of India: Lord Clive He is naturally good and tender, the latter rather preponderating; and, like most men of this disposition, is more subject to vanity than those of firmer character. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors The election, then, is reserved to the members of the higher clergy, to the cardinals, among whom the cardinal bishops have the preponderating position. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" That these the most difficult of all departments to subject to scientific treatment should have been the first chosen was due simply to their preponderating interest: "The proper study of mankind is man". Logic, Inductive and Deductive There can be little doubt that the preponderating influence of the city was responsible for the unwisdom of the later imperial policy and the Peloponnesian war. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The rebel leader, instead of awaiting the attack in the town, made for the open, to give a better chance to his preponderating numbers. Rulers of India: Akbar A 309 popular master in a girls’ school might, perhaps, offer a figure of his preponderating station. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Wherever we find this preponderating feminine principle in worship we shall find also a corresponding feminine influence in the customs of the people. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy It means a preponderating resemblance between two things such as to warrant us in inferring that the resemblance extends further. Logic, Inductive and Deductive This was especially so in the case of Nonconformists, who had conscientious objections to supporting the Established Church; and in Ireland, where the population was preponderatingly Roman Catholic, the grievance was specially felt and resented. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" His system was a mixture of the Eleatic and Socratic, the ethical preponderating in his doctrine. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Of this preponderating quality of Shakespeare’s genius, accordingly, almost the whole of modern English poetry has, it appears to me, felt the influence. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century If I shall identify its general, preponderating and clearly developed traits, it must stand or fall as they shall prove benevolent or selfish. Thoughts on African Colonization Constitutional formulae become of preponderating importance when we consider the more complicated inorganic and especially organic compounds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" May 18th.—Showers and sunshine, the first preponderating. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Meanwhile, however, this policy had not been able to prevail against the preponderating influence of the military party, who demanded the U-boat campaign. My Three Years in America Nevertheless, the animosity between the mates and the shrewd, greasy, sea-going engineer was keen enough, sharpened no doubt by the preponderating wages of the latter. An Ocean Tramp Furthermore, so far as reliable information before us goes, it appears that actions for absolute divorce also proceed preponderatingly from wives. Woman under socialism He had seen the outer pressure build up to that of the air of Earth; the spectro-analyzer had shown nitrogen preponderating, with sufficient oxygen to support life. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 And it is quite certain that not merely the fact, but the desire for some amount of sacrifice, forms "an integral, fundamental, and preponderating element" in the sexual emotion. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development As soon as the process of "crystallization," as it is called, is complete, there is nothing left for the Government but to Page 34 follow the preponderating public opinion. My Three Years in America In the early councils of the Republic the stalwart sons of Virginia exercised a preponderating influence. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 But in Vienna, being a preponderatingly Catholic city, divorce is hard to obtain. Woman under socialism The great circle of rebirths will be more or less quickly run through according to the preponderating purity or impurity of the several lives of the individual. The Buddhist Catechism It is to these preponderating drifts that reference is made in the foregoing division, as specially marking periods. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 In the convulsive period of this disease both the polynuclear cells and the lymphocytes are increased, the latter in preponderating amount. Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological For of course, they can always exert a preponderating influence in British affairs, holding as they do the balance of voting power. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule All the Allies except Japan were now represented on this front by their contingents, though of course the French and British were still in vastly preponderating majority. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources It bestowed on him a large jurisdiction—even more, put under his supervision the conduct of public functionaries in their administration, and conferred on him a preponderating influence on their election. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I Unhappily, hitherto, the small, bad clique of West Point engineers No. one, exercised a preponderating influence on the conduct of the war, and thus West Point became in disrespect, nay, in horror. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 In the 'survival' preparation he found, in addition to the nucleus, two clearly distinct substances: a hyaline ground substance in preponderating amount, and a more scanty, finely granular, fibrillary substance embedded in it. Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological As a matter of fact, though Buddhism was introduced into Japan from Korea as far back as 552 A.D., it is not and never has been the preponderating religion in Japan. The Empire of the East The great place which he occupied among the astronomers of that time caused his theory to exert a preponderating influence on scientific thought during the century which followed. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language For such would have been the case, if the attempt to found a Germanic Anglo-Saxon kingdom under Harold, and maintain it free from any preponderating foreign influence had been successful. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) At first massage predominates, and more passive than active movement; gradually massage is lessened and movements are increased, active movements ultimately preponderating. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Dr. Blanton, the authority on seventeenth-century Virginia medicine, in contrast argues that "there is not evidence ... that malaria was responsible for a preponderating part of the great mortalities of the Seventeenth Century in Virginia." Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 There vast stretches of undeveloped territory, much of which was immediately adjoining its own territory, created a strong desire for possession, or at least for a preponderating influence. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers And yet, notwithstanding these exceptional cases, the true typical number of limbs, as shown by a preponderating majority of the vertebrates of all ages of the world, is four. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Invested with full powers by the Church but dependent on the King, this Commission procured him a preponderating influence in all ecclesiastical affairs. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) At the crisis of the Restoration, M. de Talleyrand displayed, in a very superior manner, the qualities of sagacity, cool determination, and preponderating influence. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 The greatly preponderating part of psychoanalytic dream literature is occupied with interpretation according to material categories. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts It was in that year that Tunis gave up its resistance to French occupation and from that time on dates the preponderating influence which France has held ever since in north Africa. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers It was not, therefore, until nearly up with the fort that these numerous cannon would come into play, and exercise that preponderating effect which had driven off the gunners at Forts St. Philip and Jackson. Admiral Farragut "Go on with the business together," said Robinson; "Mr. Brown keeping, of course, a preponderating share in his own hands." The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm The country which presents the most interesting questions in connexion with the study is the United Kingdom, with its largely preponderating foreign trade. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" These are caused by the increased absorption which the light suffers in the atmosphere, and give rise to the preponderating red light on the sun under such conditions. The Story of the Heavens Great Britain is the preponderating user of the canal, with Germany a poor second. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan The Roman Senate was like the House of Peers in England, when the peers had a preponderating political power, and whose property lay in landed estates. Ancient States and Empires So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it. The Subjection of Women No politician will deny the strength with which the united or greatly preponderating influence of the Church can support or oppose a party. The Map of Life Conduct and Character These facts indicate that the two dangers to which I have already called attention—the preponderating influence of chamberlains and eunuchs—were mutually checks on each other. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 If the alteration was one for which the evidence was patently and decidedly preponderating, it was at once adopted, and the work went onward. Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture It was placed on the main road between Bristol and Ireland, at a distance from other places of refuge, and so was continually overrun by rich and poor strangers, the poor evidently preponderating. Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures The composition of marls differs greatly in different districts, and they have been divided into true marls, and clay marls, according as the carbonate of lime or clay is the preponderating ingredient. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry And finally, Antony had a preponderating fleet with which he could command the sea and compel his opponent to fight on the defensive in Italian territory. A History of Sea Power This denunciation has spread until apparently it has won the preponderating sentiment of the North. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement If, however, it was a case where it was doubtful whether the evidence for the alteration was thus decidedly preponderating, then a discussion, often long, interesting, and instructive, followed. Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture Soon after his accession, the tranquillity of Europe was established by the peace of Utrecht, and Austria once more became the preponderating power in Europe. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges It was repulsed with heavy loss, the Yankees having preponderating advantage of position. Reminiscences of a Rebel The matter was to him one of such preponderating moment that he could hardly be expected to speak of it. Cousin Henry She appeared to have resigned herself to Hammerfeldt's preponderating influence in political affairs, and to accept in compensation the office of mentor and guide in all social matters. The King's Mirror The preponderating influence which Byron exercised in the formation of his genius has already been noticed. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Nowadays, no doubt, their relative importance is more evenly balanced, and what preponderating interest the cartoon may have for "Pater" is equalled by the special fascination exercised by the social picture over "familias." The History of "Punch" The place was about one third filled with a representative English audience, the males preponderating in number. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War In the institutions the combined is by far the preponderating system, being employed in all but fifteen of the sixty-five; while the oral is employed in twelve. The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States From the day when my brain began to develop, his was the preponderating influence. The King's Mirror Suspense between hope and dread, dread preponderating, is the state of feeling represented in the present chorus. Classic French Course in English By conquest, alliances and understandings with his neighbours he had acquired a preponderating influence in the councils of Europe. From a Terrace in Prague By the end of Jefferson's second term of office, the civil service was as preponderatingly Republican as it had been Federalist in 1800. Union and Democracy This is the preponderating love of ease, a branch of self-love. The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings Heeren remarks, that when a secret society pursues political ends, it naturally follows that an opposing party increases in the same degree in which the preponderating influence of such a society becomes more felt. Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy It is at any rate easy to understand how the study of mathematics came to hold the preponderating place it did in the Platonic Academy. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The style is a mixture of German and Italian, the former preponderating. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Barbour, of Virginia, frankly admitted that slavery "like all other human things is mixed with good and evil—the latter, no doubt, preponderating." Union and Democracy These are familiar examples of the preponderating influence of the male parent, so far as the external form is considered. The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals All classes and conditions of men, women, and children were hustling each other in a state of great excitement; but the preponderating class was that which is familiarly though not very respectfully styled “the masses.” The Iron Horse But the Onondaga nation, being situated in the middle of the five, and the grand council-fire being held in its chief town, exercised a preponderating influence in these meetings. French Pathfinders in North America The chamber is at the same time the preponderating repository of power in the national government and the prime organ of the popular will. The Governments of Europe It is surely enough if the results harmonize on the whole and preponderatingly with the rational, moral, and �sthetic instincts of man. On the Genesis of Species They are, as a class, of higher social rank than these of Kaiserswerth, the preponderating number of whom are from the lower grade of social life. Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America He had a preponderating interest in that Southwold company, and he thought that the Henrietta had been sold too cheap, and that hung up the delivery. Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" She was coloured, but of mixed race, the European element evidently preponderating. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories The sovereigns of the two preponderating states, Austria and Prussia, delayed and eventually evaded the obligation altogether. The Governments of Europe This was probably due partly to the obscurity and confusion of his thought, partly to his lack of sympathy with the biological thought of his day, which was preponderatingly morphological. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology The preponderating number of native Americans are Protestants,248/244 and their thoughts and beliefs are permeated with the principles that their fathers held so dear, and which they sacrificed home and country to preserve. Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America He defended the Bill in an elaborate speech, advocating such an introduction of the working class to the franchise as would give them a considerable but not a preponderating power. Historical and Political Essays An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The Senate consists of eighteen members elected for life by the House of Burgesses, but in accordance with an indirect method so devised that the Senate itself exercises a preponderating influence in the elections. The Governments of Europe Those of Huron transmit the rays of light to a great depth, and consequently, having no preponderating solid matters in suspension, an equalization of heat occurs. Canada and the Canadians Volume I This able treatise, though it may not be positivism pure and simple, shows a preponderating influence of Comte and his school, and its attitude toward religion is approximately that of Herbert Spencer and Stuart Mill. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Since the downfall of the Roman Empire no such preponderating power had existed in the world. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 Beyond these tracts there are many Kachins in Katha, M�ng-Mit, and the northern Shan States, but though they are often the preponderating, they are not the exclusive population. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" With respect to the existing franchises there are two preponderating facts. The Governments of Europe Byzantine taste has exerted a preponderating influence upon Russia. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers The unbroken record of their illustrious deeds had established beyond the shadow of a doubt their preponderating share in shaping the destinies of their Faith. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh The great Republic of the West is inescapably swept into the swelling tide of the world tribulations, presaging the assumption of a preponderating share in the establishment of the anticipated Lesser Peace. Messages to America America has been called upon by the Master to play the preponderating role in this great World Crusade which is moving forward with increasing momentum. High Endeavours: Messages to Alaska The consequence was that Prussia became inevitably the preponderating power in the Empire. The Governments of Europe Abdu’l-Bahá, its Divine Commander, and in accordance with the provisions of a God-given Charter, to play such a preponderating role in the spiritual conquest of the entire planet. Citadel of Faith That all Jews are not Bolsheviks and that all Bolsheviks are not Jews is of course obvious; but that Jews are playing a preponderating part in Bolshevism it is absurd to deny. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements The year 1861 closes leaving it clear as noon-day that emancipation in the Border States is a foregone conclusion, and that, reduced to the cotton belt, it can never become a preponderating national influence. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The interval of her life, between sixteen and twenty-five, is characterised by one of her biographers as a period of 'preponderating sentimentality, of romance and dreams, of yearning and of passion.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 This fact arises from the relatively preponderating influence which is exerted by the Government in its proceedings. The Governments of Europe May enrolled pioneers arise and confirm primacy of American Bahá’í Community playing preponderating role in initial stage of spiritual conquest of unopened territories and islands of the planet. Citadel of Faith Religion and the civil law claim a preponderating voice. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Has climate a preponderating influence in determining the character and history of a nation? Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition Adams sustained the same great cause when he strengthened the administration of Jefferson against the preponderating influence of Great Britain. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States Some of these devices were shaped under the preponderating influence of radical democracy, some under that of monarchical reaction; but all are of interest and importance. The Governments of Europe The influence of the moon's attraction is the preponderating one in the tide rising force, while that of the sun is about two-fifths as much as that of the moon. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention Genoa had, indeed, for many years exercised a far more preponderating influence at Constantinople than Venice had done. The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century The new empire seemed indeed of preponderating strength. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars For that very reason the choice is free and independent of necessity, because it is made between several possibles, and the will is determined only by the preponderating goodness of the object. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Throughout several decades a preponderating political question was that of substituting for this essentially medi�val arrangement a modern bicameral legislative system. The Governments of Europe The Servian or Bosniac language here ceases to be the preponderating language, and the Albanian begins and stretches southward to Epirus. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Anna's reign was the period of a preponderating German influence in politics and at court. A Short History of Russia If that were done, he would be caught between two fires; and, since one of the party possessed a gun, the advantage would be preponderatingly against him. The Land of Mystery "No," replied I; "M. Arago can only succeed in counterbalancing the opinion justly preponderating for M. de Laplace, when the right is found to be without possible contradiction on his side." Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Throughout the entire system the preponderating fact was the thoroughgoing centralization which, through the governors, mayors, and regadores, the authorities at Lisbon were able to maintain. The Governments of Europe Fourteen Bristol magnates had long a preponderating influence in the government of the town. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Amongst a preponderating lower middle-class element Nonconformity, or rather what is better known as Protestantism, is very popular. Town Life in Australia In fact, another personage is always seen in conjunction with, and even superior to him, who, at the decisive moment we have now reached, seems to have exercised a preponderating power. The Life of Jesus The party of the new nobility, with its modern and oriental tendencies, had for ten years been held in check by the preponderating influence of Agrippina. The Women of the Caesars Upon this preponderating consideration, and upon the otherwise divergent purposes of the Government groups, Taaffe built his system. The Governments of Europe Moreover the enormous growth of the system of papal provisions had given the papacy the preponderating authority in the selection of the bishops of the English Church. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) When the illuminated point is exposed in an otherwise dark field the progression is preponderatingly downward in binocular vision and upward in vision with the single eye. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Austria was now the preponderating power in degenerate Italy. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power And as law cannot exist without the sanction and the support of a preponderating force, it must finally place this force in the hands of those who legislate. Essays on Political Economy The Federal Council, being elected by the Federal Assembly, is practically certain to reflect the preponderating political complexion of that body. The Governments of Europe His self-seeking narrowness gave Pembroke the chance of winning for his middle party a preponderating authority. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Like whatever is the most effectively rich and great in society, these classes became the seat of all the active politics, and the preponderating weight to decide on them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) On the contrary, my clear opinion is, that the liberties of Europe cannot possibly be preserved but by her remaining a very great and preponderating power. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) This preponderating weight, being added to the force of the body of chicane in the Tiers État, completed that momentum of ignorance, rashness, presumption, and lust of plunder, which nothing has been able to resist. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Political Parties: the Ministry of Estrup, 1875-1894.—Prior to 1848 the preponderating public issues of Denmark were concerned chiefly with the introduction in the kingdom of a constitutional type of government. The Governments of Europe Ethiopia grew more powerful as Egypt declined, and threatened ere long to establish a preponderating influence over the entire Nile valley. Ancient Egypt The British nation, her great preponderating rival, she had humbled, to all appearance she had weakened, certainly had endangered, by cutting off a very large and by far the most growing part of her empire. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) He seems to me to have been an extraordinary combination of the barbarian and the civilised man, of the Slav and the Latin or Teuton, the Slav barbarian preponderating. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Hence a fresh weight has only been thrown into the preponderating scale. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 Especially unscrupulous was the manner in which the preponderating parties obstructed systematically the election of Republican and Independent deputies. The Governments of Europe Persons in those stations of life do exercise political power already; but, in a few places, in large masses; preponderating over the influence of other classes of society. Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century For others, again, it is the capillary phenomena which here act a preponderating part. The New Physics and Its Evolution The interests abroad are become the settled preponderating weight both in the Court of Proprietors and the Court of Directors. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Generally speaking, it will be to the advantage of the preponderating side to seek a decision as quickly as possible in order to terminate the state of dispute. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy Those who criticise the present system are far from agreed as to precisely what would be more desirable, but, in general, there are two preponderating programmes. The Governments of Europe The herds are followed on a large scale at the end of the winter season, which is also the whelping season, and hundreds of thousands are killed, females and young preponderating. Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 Thus phenomena like those of diffraction, which are negligible in the ordinary conditions under which light is observed, may here assume a preponderating importance. The New Physics and Its Evolution Inevitably the people who achieved a preponderating influence in the new continent came to be called Americans. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making It is to the advantage of the preponderating Navy to end the state of dispute by seeking a decision. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy Much of the time, however, within the past half-century party demarcations have been vague and shifting, being determined largely in successive periods by the rise and disappearance of various preponderating public issues. The Governments of Europe To a people whose religion always had a preponderating influence on their moral conduct, the last alternative only was available, as there was not the same facilities for emigration then as now. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 These fair attractions, although occupying, in practice, a preponderating share of my time, are as nothing to me, however, in comparison with that enticing illusion, my Book. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Oriental or Greek Christianity is predominantly eschatological, Protestantism predominantly ethical, and Catholicism is a compromise between the two, although with the eschatological element preponderating. Tragic Sense Of Life So long as a state of dispute can force the preponderating Power to concentrate, operating by evasion is possibly open to the weaker. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy Son.—A village or rather a district preponderatingly rural. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People The monks who had emigrated to "Saxon land" were men of considerable intellectual culture, and, as such, had a preponderating influence, creditable alike to themselves and to those who bowed to its sway. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 We shall see, in a subsequent part of this work, how this preponderating quantity of water, combined with other causes, must have contributed to raise the temperature and induce a greater uniformity of climate. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Everything," he declares, "in my experience—and I speak only of my own—testifies to the incompleteness of life, nay, even to its preponderating unhappiness. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Then, again, the amount of living and brilliant colour is exactly proportioned to that of sombre brown, the red holding its value by strength, as against the greatly preponderating mass of dark. Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples His works will be found in the note, arranged under those two heads, as nearly as I can ascertain the preponderating sentiments of critics49. Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary To reduce the Hugonots, to lower the nobility, to elevate France to be the preponderating power in Europe, were the three objects, which the Cardinal proposed to himself. The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands The demand is for no more than a university which shall be Catholic in the sense that it shall be national, and this in a preponderatingly Catholic country implies Catholicism. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement She who had fancied herself so powerful was but the lowly, abject subaltern at the beck of a preponderating power of which she understood no more the details than the aim and principle. The Son of Clemenceau The Punic wars between Carthage and Rome, now the preponderating power in Italy, were the most celebrated in the maritime annals of antiquity. The Art of War No more in this second period of her life than in the first does love bear that preponderating part which seems to us Frenchmen an essential characteristic of the lot of woman. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 With railways Russia will be able to bring quickly a preponderating force to any point on her frontier. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Witness the Classical, Mediaeval, and Renaissance types to which historic cities preponderatingly belong, and within which we group their varied individualities, as after all of comparative detail. Civics: as Applied Sociology Peruvians and Chilians from across the isthmus, Spaniards and Cubans, black gentlemen from Hayti, French colonists from Martinique, but English preponderating above all other nationalities. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern He did employ written sources preponderatingly if not exclusively and these were in modern Persian. Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I It tends to habits that undermine and to the appropriation of a preponderating share of the valueless things of life. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment At the time of Mr. Girard's death there was a mixture of Democrats and Federalists in our Councils: the former preponderating in number. Famous Americans of Recent Times A preponderating authority was given to the electors by the Golden Bull of Charles IV. in 1355. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History An “agglutinative” language would normally be taken to mean one that agglutinates all of its affixed elements or that does so to a preponderating extent. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech And such, I need not say, is, if not the undivided, the preponderating sentiment of all the North. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Much Gallic blood asserted itself in complexion and feature, generally of undoubted, unadulterated "Caucasian" purity, but sometimes of visible and now and then of preponderating African tincture. Strange True Stories of Louisiana They hate a preponderating power, and find out some way to get rid of the threat to their national egotism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 Mrs Humphrey Ward is not the only opponent of women's suffrage to state that the atmosphere of girls' schools suffers from the preponderating spinster element. Women Workers in Seven Professions It is with the introduction of Christianity into Ireland that the Irish woman came into her rightful place, and attained the preponderating influence which she, ever since, has held among the Celtic people. The Glories of Ireland We need not fear to admit that man has a preponderating tendency to evil. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Science may explain them, or illustrate or extend; but it cannot shake their preponderating influence upon the crop of the year. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 An effect of precisely the same kind, and arising from the same cause, ought not to be placed in two different categories, merely as there does or does not exist another cause preponderating over it. Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy None of Charles V.'s councillors exercised over his master that preponderating and confirmed influence which makes a man a premier minister. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 An historical myth is a myth that has a known and recognized foundation in historical truth, but with the admixture of a preponderating amount of fiction in the introduction of personages and circumstances. The Symbolism of Freemasonry It has several thousand inhabitants, the foreign element preponderating, we should judge. Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. Croatia and Slavonia, preponderatingly Roman Catholic, were lands of the Hungarian crown, and though they had a provincial pseudo-autonomous diet at Agram, the capital of Croatia, they sent deputies to the Hungarian parliament at Budapest. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey These electoral districts are marked out by the legislature, and the division is apt to be made by the preponderating party with an unfairness that is at once shameful and ridiculous. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins But it had a preponderating tendency, when considered, to become fainter. Little Dorrit In all probability this legend is a mythical history, in which truth is very largely and preponderatingly mixed with fiction. The Symbolism of Freemasonry When a ship "lists" to starboard or port a preponderating weight of the cargo has shifted sideways; if bow or stern is unduly depressed it is a sure indication that the cargo has shifted accordingly. Flying Machines: construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship So complete was the fusion, and so preponderating the influence of the subject nationality, that beyond a few personal names no traces of the language of the Bulgars have survived. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey The peculiar and preponderating fact which marks those ages as its own is the equality of conditions; the ruling passion of men in those periods is the love of this equality. Democracy in America — Volume 2 The preponderating force resides in the province, not in the nation; and it may be apprehended that the national Government may in the end be stripped of the privileges which are necessary to its existence. Democracy in America — Volume 1 Not only did the Christian revolution transform manners: it also exercised, for a space of two thousand years, a preponderating influence over civilisation. The Psychology of Revolution The general characteristics of crowds are to be met with in parliamentary assemblies: intellectual simplicity, irritability, suggestibility, the exaggeration of the sentiments and the preponderating influence of a few leaders. The Crowd; study of the popular mind There can be little doubt, however, that the ancient Hermunduri formed the preponderating element in the nation. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 But our impressions of the fashionable world, as a class, must be taken from the general preponderating characteristics of good or evil of the whole. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 The legislators who formed the Constitution of 1789 endeavored to confer a distinct and preponderating authority upon the federal power. Democracy in America — Volume 1 To so great an extent did this immigration proceed that the Governor began to fear lest the American element in the Province might soon be the preponderating one. Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 Here, once more, were we able to embark on more extensive explanations, we should show the preponderating influence of racial considerations. The Crowd; study of the popular mind In the same interest she founded in 1879 the Nouvelle Revue, which she edited for the first eight years, and in the administration of which she retained a preponderating influence until 1899. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 It is a remarkable fact that Mormon immigrants made even a greater number of agricultural settlements in Arizona than did the numerically preponderating other peoples. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert In America the President exercises a certain influence on State affairs, but he does not conduct them; the preponderating power is vested in the representatives of the whole nation. Democracy in America — Volume 1 For the Indians and negroes in this census, unpleasant memories play a far more and often preponderating rôle suggesting persecution and sad experiences. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene Are we in possession of a single word of truth concerning the lives of the great men who have played preponderating parts in the history of humanity—men such as Hercules, Buddha, or Mahomet? The Crowd; study of the popular mind They are still preponderatingly fair in complexion, while physically they are tall and strong. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The country was poor, like all the other American districts where the French were to be found preponderating. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt It will suffice, at this stage, to say that it was at first of wood, and became, by degrees, of wood and iron; in the present day the iron very much preponderating. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 In the present day the preponderating tendency among scholars favours the traditional authorship. Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Preface and Introductions The Wesleyans here, as everywhere, preponderating on the Coast, number 1,405 souls; the Catholics 500, and the Episcopalians 200. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Most Europeans are only acquainted with the first of these three causes, and they are apt to give it a preponderating importance which it does not really possess. American Institutions and Their Influence In the next place, supposing that we have found the preponderating utility of our aspheterising in Wales, let us by our speedy and united inquiries discover the sum of money necessary. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. While husband and wife belonged to different gentes, the preponderating number in each household would be of the same gens, namely, that of their mothers. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines The number of traders aggregated about seventy-nine men, and their train consisted of thirty-eight wagons drawn by mules and horses, the former preponderating. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Modern Hebrew literature, for a century the handmaiden of one preponderating idea, the humanist idea in all its various applications, henceforth enters upon a new phase of its development. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) In America the president exercises a certain influence on state affairs, but he does not conduct them; the preponderating power is vested in the representatives of the whole nation. American Institutions and Their Influence This gave the farmer in the West and the new manufacturing classes in the cities a preponderating influence in the affairs of government. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization He has shown it to be the preponderating influence in the outcome of battles. Battle Studies But in practice the Reichstag is nothing but a debating society because of the preponderating power of the Bundesrat, or upper chamber. My Four Years in Germany Both are true elementary species, differentiated from lamarckiana in nearly all their organs and qualities, but not showing any preponderating character of a retrograde nature. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The legislators who formed the constitution of 1789 endeavored to confer a distinct and preponderating authority upon the federal power. American Institutions and Their Influence He shews that the leading animal of a typical circle usually has a combination of properties concentrated in itself, without any of these preponderating remarkably over others. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Malta will be restored to the Order; and if the King of England should consider it conformable to his interests as a preponderating naval power to destroy the fortifications, that clause will be admitted. World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France The passage is one that belongs to the triple synopsis, and the form in which it appears in Hegesippus shows a preponderating resemblance to the version of St. Matthew. The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion' Intellectual superiority, even if it is of the highest kind, will not secure for a man a preponderating place in conversation until after he is forty years of age. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims The preponderating force resides in the province, not in the nation; and it may be apprehended that the national government may in the end be stripped of the privileges which are necessary to its existence. American Institutions and Their Influence The Lamas enjoyed a preponderating influence, and stood much higher than the priests of other creeds, living in the palace as if in their own house. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 The First Consul was extremely indignant, having counted on the threat of a war in Portugal to exercise a preponderating influence in the negotiations in London. World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France But where the effective decisions are taken by very few men, the chances are far greater of a preponderating balance of error in one direction. Supply and Demand But such was the preponderating opulence of his fancy, that I am persuaded, not for any half hour together, did they ever look their own prospects fairly in the face. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia It was desired to avoid if possible the drowsy nullity of the Canadian Upper House and the preponderating "bossiness" of the American. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) After 1840, however, the bulk of the nation, and especially the small gentry whose preponderating influence was making itself continually felt, were unwilling to follow Szechenyi in his one-sided policy. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 Since his vote of the 20th January, and until the 9th Thermidor, he remained in voluntary obscurity; mingling since then in all great theoretical discussions, he had exercised a preponderating influence in recent events. World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France A preponderating weight was thus thrown into the scale, which disturbed the ancient political balance, and which, if the projects on Naples should be realized, would wholly annihilate it. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 There can be no sense of safety and equality among the nations if great preponderating armies are henceforth to continue here and there to be built up and maintained. Why We Are at War : Messages to the Congress January to April 1917 Although there are still intelligent advocates of the petrifaction theory, the preponderating weight of opinion supports the view that the giant wonder is a work of art. The American Goliah The preponderating influence was exercised by the Senate. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. But these actions have moral grandeur, because all that testifies to a preponderating authority exercised over the sensuous nature has grandeur, and grandeur is found only there. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller In such a meeting the United States might naturally expect to have a preponderating influence; and Clay accepted the invitation a few days before the first Congress under Adams's administration assembled. Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 Already his father was meditating abdication in his favour, and Philip was pondering how he might secure at least a preponderating influence with Elizabeth, whose ultimate accession he regarded as inevitable. England under the Tudors This last war has, apparently, been won by a fusion of two economic systems which together hold and administer a preponderating mass of fluid capital, and which have partially pooled their resources to prevail. The Emancipation of Massachusetts It is true that Hyde assigned to the Crown a far more preponderating weight in the balance than later constitutional theories admitted. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 However it had happened, the Presbyterians had of late been preponderating in the Commons. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 At the present day the contest seems to have been decided in favour of the latter, as they occur in greatly preponderating numbers, perhaps a hundred of them to one smeller. Facts and Arguments for Darwin He recognized that change is always accompanied by evil, even if its preponderating result be good, and that it should be attempted only with care and caution. The Eve of the French Revolution For that matter, one of the two may sometimes seem to be present in a preponderating degree, and to determine by its presence the character of the object. The Nature of Goodness But so preponderating was the colored population of Horsford, and so dependent upon their labor was its prosperity, that they had entertained little fear of its coming among them. Bricks Without Straw A vastly preponderating number of bird species are of sanguine temperament; and it is this fact alone that renders it possible for us to exhibit continuously from 700 to 800 species of birds. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The representation of the people at present contains a large body of the property of the country, and in which the landed interests have a preponderating influence. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century It is since the appearance of these two works of ours that the preponderating influence of the life of microscopic organism in the phenomena of fermentation has been better understood. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) The preponderating element was the Anglo-Saxon, and its genius for law and order asserted itself. Tennessee's Partner It was a long, thin nose, which, as it progressed forward into the air, certainly had a preponderating bias towards the left side. The Small House at Allington She spoke of it exactly as Bennet Goldsworthy had spoken of hers—in a spirit compounded of benevolence and contempt, the former element preponderating in him, the latter in her. Sisters It was clear that Louis aimed a consolidating France and the Spanish dominions into one preponderating empire. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo Blake, in the last century, is an instance of preponderating soul, embarrassed, at a loss, in an era of preponderating mind. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Henry VII. was prudent and cunning; and in the absence of any preponderating oligarchical influence, planted the heel of the sovereign upon the necks of the nobles. Landholding in England This last conjecture it is certainly difficult to reconcile with the conclusion at which we arrive on other grounds, that Chaucer's married life was not one of preponderating bliss. Chaucer But the one preponderating desire in his heart just then was to humble the girl who had dared to flout him, to make her bend her stubborn neck. Love-at-Arms Since the downfall of the Roman empire no such preponderating power had existed in the world. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo The Rainbow is one of the many tokens of preponderating Chinese influence in the Straits of Malacca. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither The British nation, her great preponderating rival; she had humbled; to all appearance she had weakened; certainly had endangered, by cutting off a very large, and by far the most growing part of her empire. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke Yet we shall see how it came about, and how it was bound to come about, that the Derash not only arose in the Synagogue, but assumed preponderating importance there. Rashi Thus the preponderating interest in one section is the mining of silver, and this interest is represented by the Populist Party, who demands the coinage of more Silver. Confiscation; an outline When the whole committee deliberates, they are bound, in important decrees, to submit to the preponderating opinion of the majority, after voting in the negative. The French Revolution - Volume 3 In the circle of our life the religious element took so preponderating a place, that it is impossible to avoid mentioning, what might otherwise seem unimportant, the theological views of Miss Marks. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments But from the end of the table Blenheim's utterance was heard preponderating over that of his neighbours. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches For an air that was difficult to explain, of preponderating authority, lurked in the solid figure; and the lordly breeding of the House of Cavendish was visible in the large, long, bearded, unimpressionable face. Eminent Victorians The preponderating interest of the second section, or East, is manufactures, and is represented by the Republican Party, who demands protection. Confiscation; an outline Any attempt to guaranty and protect a revived State Government, constituted in whole, or in preponderating part, from the very element against whose hostility it is to be protected, is simply absurd. History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868 The Grand Council of Zurich, hopeful of securing a preponderating influence in Switzerland by taking the lead in the new movement, favoured Zwingli. History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 At the head of the preponderating party in the India House, had long stood a powerful, able, and ambitious director of the name of Sulivan. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 The great central mass, on account of its preponderating dimensions, would still retain, for further uncounted ages, a large quantity of its primeval heat, and would thus display the splendours of a glowing sun. Great Astronomers The preponderating interest of the third section, or South, is agriculture, and is represented by the Democratic Party, who demands free trade. Confiscation; an outline These things may obtain such a preponderating influence as to make of War a half-and-half affair. On War — Volume 1 It is this executive authority which lends so great a dignity to the Senate, gives it the privilege of preponderating over the other House, and makes it the political safeguard of the nation. North America — Volume 2 In winter-time the room was seldom empty before eight o'clock, when the four women had it all to themselves, and made up for the silence previously imposed upon them by the preponderating masculine element. Father Goriot In this case the attraction of the sun is a force of such preponderating magnitude, that the actual path of each planet remains nearly the same as if the other planet were absent. Great Astronomers There are three political parties in the field, each with the preponderating interest of some section in charge, which it is bound to see through regardless of the interests of the other two. Confiscation; an outline |
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