She is a constant menace to the predominancy of Germany in the world.

That is what we are fighting, that claim to predominancy of a civilization, a material one, a hard one, a civilization which if once it rules and sways the world, liberty goes, democracy vanishes, and unless Britain comes to the rescue, and her sons, it will be a dark day for humanity.

A predominancy of shade has the best effect; and light, though it should not be scattered, must not be drawn, as it were, into one focus.

"But still a predominancy of one or other quality in the minister is often visible.

I was not, however, ignorant of her anxious desire for a reconciliation with Tamaahmaah; nor was the same wish to be misunderstood in the conduct and behavior of the king, in whose good opinion and confidence I had now acquired such a predominancy that I became acquainted with his most secret inclinations and apprehensions.