Nay, further, the social affections, as Shaftesbury has proven, are the strongest of all, and the man will rarely be found in whom the sum of the benevolent impulses will not outweigh that of the selfish ones.
The stately English dame must let her amusement outweigh her resentment if she is addressed as "grandma" by some genial railway conductor of the West; she may feel assured that no impertinence is intended.
There are, possibly, two sides as to the value of this supremacy of the magazine, though to most observers the advantages seem to outweigh the disadvantages.
Sisera presumed on the peaceful relations which existed between his lord and Heber; and supposed that the sympathy of one alien race for another was to outweigh every other consideration.
Make you the son's fidelity Outweigh the father's treason, that the name Of Piccolomini be not a proverb Of infamy, a common form of cursing To the posterity of Wallenstein.
But we should look twice before we should thus qualify a government in which the chief makes his will outweigh the wishes of the citizens, or a government in which the will of the citizens outweighs that of the chief.
The outlook it would afford for humanity would far outweigh a measure of hardship imposed on the present generation.
The analogy between Culhuacan and Culiacan is not a strong argument in favor of a north-western location, or at most does not outweigh the identity of the names Culhuacan and Nachan.
Whole losses outweigh half-gains: Earth's good is with evil blent: Good struggles but evil reigns.
But there is one important argument on the other side, which, if it could be maintained, would be sufficient to outweigh all this improbability.
This objection, then, is quite insufficient to outweigh the positive testimony in favour of the miracles, to which we have already alluded.
Now, of course, the whole of this Essay is really an attempt to meet this objection, and to show that, when carefully considered, the arguments in favour of Christianity far outweigh those against it.
Indeed, the superiority of free men who act right, though they might act wrong, to mere machines is obvious to everyone; and it may far outweigh the disadvantage that some of them should act wrong.
Yet, as a matter of fact, the evidence in its favour did outweigh every difficulty, and finally convince the civilised world.
So the evidence is all cumulative and far more than sufficient to outweigh the improbability of the religion, due to its apparent partiality, which is the most important argument on the opposite side.
And let no one cherish a secret suspicion that because the Syriac and the Latin versions are such venerable documents they must be held to outweigh all the rest, and may be right in this matter after all.
Collectively, however, the Copies, without question, outweigh either the Versions by themselves, or the Fathers by themselves.
Were the primary duty of a member for any constituency to consider the special needs of that constituency, local considerations would outweigh national interests.
But the advantage which would arise from the increase of the spirit of reasonableness would far outweigh such disadvantages as might befall the less politically minded members of the House.
For one striking experience, or two or three recent ones, will immensely outweigh a great number of faint or remote experiences.
At first the injury to the industries which suffer from the competition and to those employed in them is likely to outweigh the benefit of the payments received.
But if the origin of the disturbance is of temporary duration, the losses from the injury done to organization may outweigh the profit of receiving goods without paying for them.
Now, if the oath were abolished, the jury would judge all testimony according to the witness, and then the evidence of one man of good reputation would outweigh the lies of thousands of nobodies.
The expectation of a farthing in this world was supposed to outweigh the fear of God's wrath in the next.
At last, the good deeds would outweigh the evil, and, according to the religion of Egypt, the latch-string of heaven would never be drawn in until the last wanderer got home.
But the economies of the large business were found to outweigh these considerations.
The furnace of affliction may be fierce, but if it refineth thy soul, The good of one meek thought shall outweigh years of torment.
In brief, then, the voting privilege granted to women, and particularly to business women, would be a detriment to the women, and it would not be of sufficient value to the government to outweigh the loss to them.
To my mind the advantages of a properly conducted home life far outweigh the advantages of any institution, no matter how good.
He must hold it to be so evil that the wrongs it does outweigh the benefit it confers, for only so is non-co-operation to be justified at the bar of conscience or of Christ.
I think its inconvenience would more than outweigh the sentimental gratification of keeping up a phantom of the old Ottoman Empire.
The new constitution gives no scope for retrenchment and therefore no scope for measures of social reform except by fresh taxation, the heavy burden of which on the poor will outweigh all the advantages of any reforms.
Thus, from a silvicultural viewpoint, the disadvantages of brush burning far outweigh its advantages.
Disadvantages of Burning "The disadvantages of burning brush are many and, with the one exception of protection from fire, far outweigh the advantages.
We had demonstrated the impossibility of receiving a fair, impartial vote at the hands of the ignorant, lawless and unthinking multitude whose ballots outweighall reason and overpower all sense.
This same year of 1870, which witnessed our first parliamentary defeat, brought compensation also of such magnitude as to outweigh the temporary overthrow of the franchise bill.
Of the young gentleman for whom you intercede I know but little; but there are two disqualifications against him, more than enough, either of them, to outweigh your advocacy.
Of course, then, my intractable temper is the cause of all our incompatibility; my only consolation is that I have a son and a daughter-in-law so charmingly endowed that their virtues are more than enough to outweigh my faults.
The advantages, however, of the smaller calibre and the lighter bullet and ammunition are considered to outweigh the disadvantages, and they have been universally adopted for all military rifles.
In the regions outside the western area occupied by the Negro proper, exclusive of the upper Nile, the similarities of cultureoutweigh the differences.
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