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"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," her father was wont to say, and she had come to the same conclusion. Besides her faith in her predictive dreams was by no means fixed. She had reached but one comforting conclusion, and that was negative. If no vision came to reveal the future of any friend, she rested secure in the belief that he or she at least was to be free of disaster.
There is often something like a predictive spirit in the early career of great men, which urges them to make provision for greatness; and remote as is the condition of a captain of a smart frigate from the commander of fleets, yet the captain of the Alarm, though the least ostentatious of men, seems always to have had a glance towards the highest duties of the British admiral.
All these attractive marks, the proofs of a religious calling, whereas, when born, all said, these are marks of a 'great man, who ought to receive tribute from the four seas! And now to see what he has come to! all these predictive words vain and illusive." Thus they talked together, the gossiping multitude, with confused accents. Tathâgata, his heart unaffected, felt no joy and no regret.
In some parts, but not in all, the suffering of the Servant, whoever he may be, is emphasised; but there is no trace in the Old Testament, or in the later Jewish writings, that these descriptions were regarded as predictive of the future.
Such an all-pervasive and extensive pathology manifests itself in the behavior of each and every member. It is a defining though often implicit or underlying mental structure. It has explanatory and predictive powers. It is recurrent and invariable a pattern of conduct melding distorted cognition and stunted emotions. And it is often vehemently denied. Curriculum Vitae
Paris, February 15, 1883. * This dream was shortly followed by Mrs Kingsford's antivivisection expedition to Switzerland, the fierce conflict of which amply fulfilled any predictive significance it may have had. XIX. The Game of Cards: A Parable
And, when tea was served, he went up-stairs for the ladies, and escorted them to the table with a manner so beaming and so happily predictive that Charlotte could not but catch some of its hopeful spirit. Just as they sat down to the tea-table, the wet, weary travellers reached Up-Hill.
But on this particular day it seemed as if December had remembered that it was time for winter and had turned suddenly dull and brooding, with a windless hush predictive of coming snow.
The unique relationship which brings Him into connection with every soul of man upon earth, and makes Him the Saviour, Helper, and Friend of us all, is expressed when He calls Himself the Son of Man. III. And now one last word in regard to the predictive character of this designation.
I hovered near the grand stand till the full thirty hours and the six predictive hours were over, and then, as the thunder above roared threateningly and the rain fell suggestively, I took a rubber coat and camped on the trail of that famous spouter. Geysers are more than a trifle freaky. "Old Faithful" is a notable exception.
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