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But whereas a man's profession and employment in this world is very much in his own, or in the choice of such who are most nearly concerned for him; he therefore, that foresees that he is not likely to have the advantage of a continued education, he had much better commit himself to an approved-of cobbler or tinker, wherein he may be duly respected according to his office and condition of life; than to be only a disesteemed pettifogger or empiric in Divinity.
He, too, foresees not with an eye like Clay's, clear only at intervals and clouded by vanity, ambition, and sophistry, at other seasons he, too, foresees the coming of our doom! His clear vision embraces anarchy, dissension, civil war, with all its attendant horrors, as the consequence of man's injustice; and, like Moses, he beholds the promised land into which he can never enter!
If I could express the tone in which he uttered the word, which had never fallen from his lips before it was always either "Miss March," or the impersonal form used by all lovers to disguise the beloved name "URSULA," spoken as no man speaks any woman's name save the one which is the music of his heart, which he foresees shall be the one fireside tune of his life, ever familiar, yet ever sweet.
God foresees and permits sin. It is all a terrible mystery, but the facts are as undeniable as the mystery of their co-existence is inscrutable. II. The slumbering possibilities of sin. Hazael indignantly protests against the thought that he should do such a thing. There is conscience left in him yet. His example suggests how little any of us know what it is in us to be or to do.
The atmosphere is rife with vicissitude and change. Monotony would seem to have made there its home; yet no day is quite like another. What one hopes for is too long in coming; and what one never foresees on, a sudden comes to pass. We took counsel together as to the best thing to be done.
On receiving the envoy of the Emperor Alexander at Wilna, be says to him: "Russia does not want this war; none of the European powers are in favor of it; England herself does not want it, for she foresees the harm it will do to Russia, and even, perhaps, the greatest... I know as well as yourself, and perhaps even better, how many troops you have.
Therfore God seeks "to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem," and, "in that day," because in his fine judgment he foresees and ordains that those who resist the faith are struck with eternal damnation, or are destroyed or diminished according to the extent of their own weakness.
This system isn't new, though it's new to you." "You people in London don't know what work is." "And what about your Clyde strikes?" G.J. retorted. "Well, all that's settled now," said Concepcion rather uneasily, like a champion who foresees a fight but lacks confidence. "Yes, but " G.J. suddenly altered his tone to the persuasive: "You must know all about those strikes. What was the real cause?
The King and North hate and fear me already more than Wilkes." "And with more cause," I replied warmly. "His Majesty perhaps knows that you understand him better, and foresees the time when a man of your character will give him cause to fear indeed." He did not answer that, but called for a reckoning; and taking my arm again, we walked out past the sleeping houses.
The outcome of this story is one more proof of a proven truth a mother's place cannot be filled. A mother foresees danger long before a Mlle. Armande can admit the possibility of it, even if the mischief is done. The one prevents the evil, the other remedies it. And besides, in the maiden's motherhood there is an element of blind adoration, she cannot bring herself to scold a beautiful boy.
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