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In the words of a modern historian, "He resolved to avail himself of the superstition of his fellow-citizens, by a pious fraud. He went to the senate-house and declared to the Five Hundred that Jove and Athe'na had forewarned him in a dream of some great blessing that was in store for the Commonwealth. Shortly afterward public couriers arrived with the news of Philip's death.
"Forewarned is forearmed, they say; and if we know Eugene is laying low for us, we can be on our guard." "Yes, that's all very good," Frank went on, shaking his head; "but once we get into the big canyon it may pay us to keep an eye out for overhanging rocks." "Say, you don't mean to tell me you think Eugene would go that far?" demanded Bob, startled at the very idea of such a thing.
He was thinking of an afternoon at Oxford, when, to such an accompaniment as this, he had witnessed the first scene in the drama of evil wherein the man called Antony Ferrara sustained the leading rôle. That the denouément was at any moment to be anticipated, his reason told him; and some instinct that was not of his reason forewarned him, too, that he and his father, Dr.
But all disappear again, one by one, apparently without a word of condolence or encouragement to the distressed pair. I have often noticed among birds this show of sympathy, if indeed it be sympathy, and not merely curiosity, or desire to be forewarned of the approach of a common danger. An hour afterward I approach the place, find all still, and the mother bird upon the nest.
No daughter!" said Crawford, with stern emphasis. "Frances was the daughter of thy wedded wife, friend Crawford." "But I have disowned her. I forewarned her of the consequences if she married that young man. I told her that I would cast her off for ever; and I have done it." "But, friend Crawford, thee has done wrong." "I've said it, and I'll stick to it."
"Are you not you that were born a Cornish Christian gentleman become a heathen and a robber, a renegade and a pirate? Have you not sacrificed your very God to your vengeful lust?" He met her glance fully, never quailing before her denunciation, and when she had ended on that note of question he counter-questioned her. "And your instincts had forewarned you of all this?
"Forewarned is forearmed," says the proverb, and of all forewarnings there is none we are more likely to heed than our own mistrust; for whereas we may leave unheeded the warnings of a friend, we seldom leave unheeded the warnings of our spirit.
In the following section I shall give some of the general impressions which this excursion has left in my memory, and a few suggestions derived from them. My reader was fairly forewarned that this narrative was to be more like a chapter of autobiography than the record of a tourist. In the language of philosophy, it is written from a subjective, not an objective, point of view.
And if, moreover, we are to attribute any part of these disasters to some personal ill-fortune attaching to the men themselves, in the case of Pompey, certainly, the Romans had no reason to anticipate it. Whereas Agesilaus would not suffer the Lacedaemonians to avoid what they foresaw and were forewarned must attend the "lame sovereignty."
"Forewarned, foolish man, thou are forewarned. Peace," said the King; and, shaking his head, he rode on to join the Normans, who now, in a broad field, where the corn sprang green, and which they seemed to delight in wantonly trampling, as they curvetted their steeds to and fro, watched the movements of the bittern and the pursuit of the two falcons.
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