If convenience preponderates in favor of either view, that is a sufficient reason for its adoption.
Yet the friendship of kindred is more stable, since it is more natural, and preponderates over others in matters touching nature: consequently we are more beholden to them in the providing of necessaries.
The sum total of the Christian religion consists in mercy, as regards external works: but the inward love of charity, whereby we are united to God preponderates over both love and mercy for our neighbor.
If knowledge preponderates at the time of invocation, it is to be continued, for such an invocation is a worship in itself.
If Divine Wisdom preponderates at the time, silence is preferable.
The value of land is vastly increased by the expenditure of capital on it, and in manufactures, machine labor preponderates over the labor of the human hand.
This apparent continuity might be ascribed to the deficiency of the sense of touch, but there is evidence that in currents of such high frequencies one of the impulses preponderates over the other.
Both the electrodes behave generally alike, though it appears from some observations that one current impulse preponderates over the other, as before mentioned.
I have met with of these reciprocal hybrids, is strongly of opinion that the ass preponderates in both crosses, but in an unequal degree.
I have seen, preponderates over the domestic fowl; but the latter, as far as colour is concerned, has considerable power of transmission, for hybrids raised from five differently coloured hens differed greatly in plumage.
Accurately speaking, there is no such thing as a mixed government (with the meaning usually given to that word), because in all communities some one principle of action may be discovered, which preponderates over the others.
Thus, if the minority of the nation preponderates in the senate, it may paralyze the decisions of the majority represented in the other house, which is contrary to the spirit of constitutional government.
It is not the people who preponderates in this kind of government, but those who best know what is for the good of the people.
But how is it possible, that one substance preponderates and fills a thing in greater mass than the others present?
As long as the State is still in an embryonic condition woman as mother preponderates and determines the grade and the manifestations of Culture: in the same way as woman is destined to complement the disorganised State.
As the arterial character preponderates in these animals, so do the venous organs, especially the liver and renal structures, retrograde.
They are the first digression from Red, the Yellow; the Earthy preponderates in them.
It is not the people who preponderates in this kind of government, but those who are best versed in the good qualities of the people.
Thus, if the minority of the nation preponderates in the Senate,.
Accurately speaking there is no such thing as a mixed government (with the meaning usually given to that word), because in all communities some one principle of action may be discovered which preponderates over the others.
It is not enough that the earth should exist; the body must be within that distance from it, in which the earth’s attraction preponderates over that of any other body.
But it is a fact, which no one present will call in question, that what preponderates in the national character is quiescence or passivity, the active virtues being thrown into the background, or remaining in a state of dormancy.
This pink decayed rock is sometimes streaked with a white decayed rock, which the natives call jadi mannu, and sometimes the latter so much preponderates that it looks nearly white.
In England, North America, and Holland, this tendency governs and preponderates over all the other national instincts.
Wherever one of thesepreponderates greatly, or is wanting altogether, the novel falls below her usual standard.
For truth always preponderates over error in her conceptions, and the result is a moral effect.
The agreeable preponderates in the story, but it has its tragic features and its serious import.
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