10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PONDERANCY»
Discover the use of
ponderancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ponderancy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals
... and we cannot get better information, it becomes practically indifferent fyfrich
way we act. When there is any pre- ponderancy, ponderancy, it is evident we
ought to take that way, in a virtuous Agent. 297.
2
History of the House of Austria ...
France, at this period, had attained an enormous pre- ponderancy among the
powers of Europe, not only from a dread of her strength and resources, but from
the character and system of the prime minister. Cardinal Fleury was in the 84th
year ...
William Coxe, Walter Keating Kelly, Franz de Paula Graf von Hartig, 1854
3
Norman Sinclair [a novel].
... order to keep up the pre- ponderancy on the roll, new votes had to be created
by the splitting of existing superiorities, and these were given as a kind of bonus
for past services to inferior agents, satellites, and understrappers ; due precaution
...
William Edmondstoune Aytoun, 1861
4
Trinidad: Its Geography, Natural Resources, Administration, ...
... ponderancy. From the preceding statements it does not appear unreasonable
to expect that, within a given time, the Western Archipelago will recover the high
position which it once occupied, and which by nature it must eventually occupy.
Louis Antoine Aimé Gaston De Verteuil, 1858
5
On parliamentary government in England: its origin, ...
... and independent departments, acknowledging no bond of union except the
authority of the sovereign, their common head and lord. In every successive
administration, Whigs and Tories were mingled together, in varying pre-
ponderancy.
6
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
... all the others ; and when we consider that the capitalist, both in commerce and
manufactures employs a much larger proportion of mere laborers, we may safely
conclude that the capital employed in agriculture has a similar pre- ponderancy.
New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, 1851
... senses, — and keeping them in place so nicely adjusted, that the whole move
in harmony, but when it restrains generous, noble impulses, and is used as a
cloak for selfishness, I can't say that I admire a pre- ponderancy of it in the
character.
8
The Federalist, on the New Constitution
The more I revolve the subject, the more fully I am persuaded that the balance is
much more likely to be disturbed by the pre- ponderancy of the last than of the
first scale. > We have seen in all the examples of ancient and modern ...
... himself the year before to the piofligate intrigues of the Peishwa for the
subversion of British pre- ponderancy ; thirdly, by specific promises given to the
Pindarries of making common cause with them, should they be driven to
exigency.
10
The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine
... of the inhabit^.' , whereas, On the contrary, there are many parts of Christens
where there is not a single Mahometan to be found, except * sojournor or a
Visiter. " How then was this rapid promulgation, and permanent : ponderancy, ...
