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But make a fiasco, Luigi, and not a second ten for you, my friend: and away, out of my sight, show yourself no more! Luigi humbly said that he was not the instrument of a fiasco. Half spurning him, Antonio-Pericles snarled an end both to his advices and his prophetic disgust of the miserable tools furnished unto masterly minds upon this earth.
It takes on whatever quality of soul we have acquired and it fosters that quality be it much or little so that we may not go into the interior realms a spiritual pauper. Even as our physical childhood is a prelude to mental adultship, so old age, our "second childhood," is a prelude to our soul adultship, and the character of our old age period is prophetic of our state in the soul life.
Narrow as was Blaine's view of world affairs, impossible as was his conception of an America divided from Europe economically and spiritually as well as politically and of an America united in itself by a provoked and constantly irritated hostility to Europe, he had an American program which, taken by itself, was definite, well conceived, and in a sense prophetic.
In the same short chapter he asserts in very weighty words his belief in the ever-watchful providence of God: Shortly after this he tells the heathen Emperor that the mission and work of Jesus Christ had been predicted: "There were amongst the Jews certain men who were prophets of God, through whom the Prophetic Spirit published beforehand things that were to come to pass, ere ever they happened.
Croker drew that picture of Coomara the Merrow, when he probably never saw a sea crayfish, a lobster, or even a prawn at home, I cannot account for, except by the divining and prophetic instincts of genius. And when I speak of his seeing a crayfish, a lobster, or a prawn at home, I mean at their home, and not at Mr. Croker's.
But how could the President of the United States assert, in the presence of any foreigner, a claim to honorable principle or moral virtue, as attributes belonging to his countrymen, when he is the first to cast the indelible stigma upon them? 'Vale, venalis civitas, mox peritura, si emptorem invenias, was the prophetic curse of Jugurtha upon Rome, in the days of her deep corruption.
The gay and unreflecting character of O'Shaughnessy, the careless merriment of my brother officers, jarred upon my nerves, and rendered me irritable and excited; and I sought in lonely rides and unfrequented walks, the peace of spirit that calm reflection and a firm purpose for the future rarely fail to lead to. There is in deep sorrow a touch of the prophetic.
You know it is one of their wise sayings, that a kinsman is part of a man's body, but a foster-brother is a piece of his heart. 'Well, Fergus, there is no disputing with you; but I would all this may end well. 'Devoutly prayed, my dear and prophetic sister, and the best way in the world to close a dubious argument. But hear ye not the pipes, Captain Waverley?
These quarrels are important only as they are prophetic in thus early disclosing the gulf between Marx and Bakounin in their conception of revolutionary activity. Although profoundly revolutionary, Marx was also rigidly rational.
Nevertheless, whatever may have been the reason, the fact was that there was no room for Jesus in that inn the first night he spent in this world, and this fact was sadly prophetic of his reception in the world he came to save. There were few places where he did find welcome: generally there was no room for him even in places where he had the most reason and right to expect it.
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