The majority of the British merchants are natives of Scotland, proverbial for their talent and activity in trade.
The majority of the people, I should conceive, thought an alteration necessary in the clergy: many of that majority had visited Europe, and became divested of the narrow policy the Spaniards had taught them.
The majority of the nuns in these two convents are aged, having received very few additions, lately, of the youthful class.
Although very useless for the majority of men, the ministers of religion have tried to make death appear terrible to the eyes of their votaries.
Consent, then, to leave without regret this world, which causes more trouble than pleasure to the majority of you.
In what way can we recognize the tenderness of a Father who created the majority of His children but for the purpose of dragging out a life of pain, anxiety, and bitterness upon this earth?
If there existed a good God, would we not be forced to admit that He strangely neglects the majority of men in this life?
In matters of religion the majority of men have remained in their primitive barbarity.
Those who find the idea of another life so flattering and so sweet, have they then forgotten that this other life, according to them, is to be accompanied by torments for the majority of mortals?
According to the notions of modern theology, it appears evident that God has created the majority of men with the view only of punishing them eternally.
The idea of God has so little stability, it is so afflicting, that it can not hold the imagination for a long time, except in some sad and melancholy visionists who do not constitute the majority of the inhabitants of this world.
The majority of men rarely think of God, or, at least, do not occupy themselves much with Him.
By an overwhelming majority they had decided to trust the King, and they would not find his grace unmindful of that.
The Proclamation produced a great effect, and the parliament which met on the 20th of December contained a working majority of men who were not only patriotic, but who were also endowed with common sense.
Happily the King and the majorityin the Chamber and in the country had, if not much love for Cavour, a profound conviction that he could not be done without, and that, consequently, he must be allowed to do what he liked.
He did not succeed in making the majority of his countrymen republicans, but he contributed more than any other man towards inspiring the whole country with the desire for unity.
Then, seeing Charles looked rather hurt, he added, "I am not speaking of any particular clergyman here or there, but of the great majority of them.
No one had any fault, except of a negative kind, to find with Percival, yet the majority of Mr. Thorne's old friends were inclined to dislike him.
There are naturally no French, who heretofore formed the majority of the summer population.
At present, the preponderating majority of the visitors are Germans.
The score in games is then denoted just as in a single game, "deuce" and "vantage" games being played until a majority of two is won.
In case of a tie at the end of a game it is customary to continue until one side secures a majority of the points.
In scoring for golf there are two methods: Either the score of each hole is taken and the winner of a majority of holes wins the match, or the total score in counted as in "medal" or "tournament play.
Montaigne's words were not those of a philosopher talking only to his own order, he addressed himself to mankind at large, and he wrote in language the majority could easily comprehend.
I say of the past three centuries, because it is only during the past three hundred years that heresy has made the majority of its converts amongst the mass of the people.
If faith had to be inferred from action rather than profession, it would indeed be impossible to say to what sect or creed the majority of mankind belong.
Rousseau, and the unlimited power which he accords to the majority for the time being in the state (Contrat Social, 1761, II, ch.
The suddenness of such an accident took the world by surprise, and in consequence of the mystery in which great people's illnesses are always shrouded, the majority of the public were not aware of his danger till they heard of his death.
He said the great majority of them were so, but that the well-disposed had not come forth, while the factious minority had.
Footnote 53: [Ministers were beaten in the House of Lords by a majority of six on the Irish Poor Law Bill, and by a majority of one in the House of Commons on a motion relating to the Public Accounts.
I told him I did not think he could have done this, or could have got a majority on it, for nobody ever dreams of abolishing the Malt Tax.
If he had got a majority he would have been more perplexed than the Government, and this is the man the peers are ready to follow and to make Prime Minister.
The Duke of Newcastle told me they hoped for a majority of fifty, therefore eighty-six was far beyond their most sanguine expectations.
The Government got a majority of two in a division which Stanley most unwisely forced on, and the affair ended in a general opinion that the Ministers had much the best of it, and that Stanley had been signally defeated.
Most people thought the same, but everybody was agreed that go which way it would, the division would be a very close one, and the majority small.
The general opinion is that there will be a majority of about forty, but nobody knows what Peel will say or do, and many votes are quite uncertain.
The lapse of time has seconded the sacerdotal arts; and in the East, as well as in the West, the Deity is addressed in an obsolete tongue, unknown to the majority of the congregation.
By these inquisitors the trial was prepared and directed; but they could only pronounce the sentence of the majority of judges, who with some truth, and more prejudice, have been compared to the English juries.
War and religion were administered by the supreme magistrate; and he alone proposed the laws, which were debated in the senate, and finally ratified or rejected by a majority of votes in the thirty curi or parishes of the city.
Once they realized the facts, the majorityof Germans naturally welcomed the so-called war of defense.
The majority opinion of medical science and the evidence of statistics are united on this point.
The majority of physicians and sex psychologists hold that the practice of absolute continence is, for the greater part of the human race, an absurdity.
The Western European strains in this country are represented by a majority of native-born children of foreign-born or mixed parentage.
Immigrants or their children constitute the majority of workers employed in many of our industries.
With this precedent established--a precedent which a majority of the congressmen could hardly have understood because of the hasty passage of the act--Comstock secured the enactment of state laws to the same effect.
But the great majority felt that they could have no associations with such as the Allens, and completely ignored them.
I'm sure she meant everything for the best, and she took the course which is taken by the majority in like circumstances.
But the majority turned away not quite satisfied--with an inward foreboding that all was not as well as it might be--that critical eyes would see ground for criticism.
All the worse for the majority then, if they fare anything as we have done.
The majority of the world thinks I am not even fit to speak to," she added, in a low tone.
And the young major stalked off, followed by the majority of the others.
Of the steamers chartered the great majority steamed 12 or 13 knots.
At the same time there were reports that 3,000 Transvaalers were moving to Burghersdorp, but as a matter of fact the majority of them appear to have gone to Colesberg.
Australians, Canadians, and Ceylon planters were among the mounted infantry; Afrikanders, among the Cape volunteers; but the great majority came from within the limits of the British Isles.
These sentiments were received with loud acclamations by the majority of his hearers.
Of the attributes of the Supreme Being, the majority have but the slightest conception, regarding him in the light of one inferior to their Emperor, and neither respecting nor fearing him so much.
The stubborn, passive resistance and self-sacrifice that I have pictured was that of a moral leadership of a majority shaming the minority; of an ostracism of all who had relations with the enemy.
For now the war has sucked into its vortex the great majority of those who are strong enough to fight or work.
Though in the tenso with Linhaure, Guiraut expresses his preference for the simple and intelligible style, it must be said that the majority of his poems are far from attaining this ideal.
Of the many ladies whose praises were sung or whose favours were desired by troubadours, the majority were married.
Peire Vidal, with the majority of the troubadours, shows himself a vigorous supporter of Alfonso.
All owed allegiance to the Duke of Aquitaine, the Count of Poitou, but his suzerainty was, in the majority of cases, rather a name than a reality.
While examples of the fine careless rapture of inspiration are by no means wanting, artificiality reigns supreme in the majority of cases.
In summer themajority of the stoves in Dutch houses are taken down and put away—one would like to know where.
They are the smart members of a homely family, and, as is usually the case with such, though no doubt very admirable in some ways, not appealing specially to the majority of people.
Though a few made a great deal of money, the majority of the new bulb growers and buyers lost everything they possessed!
The majority are in perfection in April, and the latest sorts, such as Poeticus and Grandee, carry us on well into May; but by the end of that month Narcissi are over in the bulb gardens.
Among that majority was the late Chief Justice Marshall.
Then how do the majority of turpentine planters in this section make money?
It is a government without limitation of power, in a single State, aided by one fourth of the States--a government by which the minority may control the majority in all cases whatsoever.
But when we come down to a practical examination of sense impressions retained in the memory, we find that the majority of such impressions are those obtained through the two respective senses of sight and hearing.
You will find by a little questioning that the majority of people remember figures or numbers in this way, and that very few can remember them as abstract things.
The trouble with the majority of people is that they read books "to kill time," as a sort of mental narcotic or anaesthetic, instead of for the purpose of obtaining something of interest from them.
The law of Association has been used in the majority of these systems, often to a ridiculous degree.
The majority of sense impressions, stored away in the memory, have been received more or less involuntarily, that is with the application of but a slight degree of attention.
And the same with mouths, a few classes being found to cover the majority of cases.
When asked whether the cats came down head or tail first, the majority were sure that the cats descended as they were never known to do.
The phase of memory connected with the remembrance or recollection of names probably is of greater interest to the majority of persons than are any of the associated phases of the subject.
For that matter it is difficult for the majority of persons to even think of a number, abstractly.
The principal difficulty in it lies in the fact that to do the thing you must do some active earnest thinking, and the majorityof people are too lazy to indulge in such mental effort.
But the majority of these impressions are but faintly recorded upon the memory, because we give to them but little attention or interest.
There was once a discussion about an oven of peculiar structure, which a decision of the majority had pronounced liable to become unclean, like earthenware vessels.
In many points the majority of the college took middle ground between the opposing doctrines of the schools of Shammai and Hillel, and they decided "neither like the one nor like the other.
For these various reasons the majority of the teachers of the Law were not greatly prepossessed in favor of the neo-Persians.
Like the majority of the Babylonian teachers of the Law, however, he had a small field of his own, which he cultivated by the agency of a freeman.
Before he rose from the table the majority of the sweets had disappeared.
Because of its being above ground it will be drier than a cellar, and in the majority of cases it will be more convenient to get at.
There will, in the majority of cases, be little nooks and corners here and there about the home grounds in which some plants can be grown by those disposed to make the most of existing conditions.
The majority of them entered their carriages and were quickly driven away, leaving behind only two men who walked down Courcelles, where they parted, as one of them lived in that street.
Because, as you must know, the majority of the diamonds were false.
