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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Kind to me," echoed Mrs. Winstanley. "He has been all goodness. We have never had a difference of opinion since we were married." "No, mamma, because you always defer to his opinion." "Is not that my duty, when I know how clever and far-seeing he is?"
In the time of the Christian Emperors freedom of divorce by mutual consent was alternately maintained, and abolished. We even find the wise and far-seeing provision of the law enacting that a contract of the two parties never to separate could have no legal validity.
"But for centuries England has been a naval power, and obliged to direct her efforts to the acquisition of colonies over sea." "And what was there to prevent Prussia, centuries ago, from becoming a naval power that should command respect? It was our misfortune that the mighty ideas and far-seeing plans of the great Elector were frustrated by the inadequate means at his disposal.
All in all, then, the work of Anaxagoras must stand as that of perhaps the most far-seeing scientific imagination of pre-Socratic antiquity.
"And Prussia?" asked Potemkin, with a significant smile. Catharine smiled in return. "I cannot chide HIM, Potemkin, for he would have befriended YOU." "And the treaty? Do you intend to renew it with this wise, far-seeing prince?" "I cannot say. It depends upon the offers he makes. Stay in this room, Gregory; and I will receive Von Gortz in the next one, where you can hear what passes between us."
He began to share the nervousness of Preston and the wise, far-seeing Franklin. He jumped into a cab and was at the corner some minutes ahead of time. Precisely at eleven he saw the coach draw near. He hurried to its side. The footman dismounted and opened the door. Inside he saw, not Margaret, but the lady of the hidden face.
At all events, the plan was soon well in hand. A less far-seeing leader would have been content to call the scattered tribes to a momentary alliance with a view to a general uprising against the invaders. But Tecumseh's purposes ran far deeper.
San Giacinto, calm, far-seeing, and keen as an eagle, surveyed the chaos from the height of his magnificent fortune, unmoved and immovable, awaiting the lowest ebb of the tide.
At length, Watt found a fit partner in another eminent leader of industry Matthew Boulton, of Birmingham; a skilful, energetic, and far-seeing man, who vigorously undertook the enterprise of introducing the condensing- engine into general use as a working power; and the success of both is now matter of history.
But the far-seeing eye of Barneveld could not be blind to the danger which at this crisis beset the Stadholder and the whole republic. The Prince was induced to return to the Hague, but the city continued by armed revolt to maintain the new magistracy. They proceeded to reduce the taxes, and in other respects to carry out the measures on the promise of which they had come into power.
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