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He did not forsee the day when, a Schnorrer indeed, he would have taken five shillings from anybody who could afford it: had no prophetic intuition of that long, slow progression of penurious days which was to break down his spirit. For though he managed for a time to secure enough work to keep himself and the Red Beadle going, his ruin was only delayed.
Naturalists say they are very sagacious creatures, and I beleeve they are so; bot I shall never be of the opinion they can forsee future contingencies, which I suppose the divell himselfe can neither forknow nor fortell; these being things which the Almightie hath keepd hidden in the bosome of his divine prescience.
For what we have reached is really the conception of an Encyclopædia Civica, to which each city should contribute the Trilogy of its Past, its Present, and its Future. Better far, as life transcends books, we may see, and yet more, forsee, the growth of civic consciousness and conscience, the awakening of citizenship towards civic renascence.
From what has been said, I consider my first proposition as completely established, that the Rockingham party was the only connexion of men, by which the country could be well served. I would however just observe one thing by the way. I forsee that my first proposition lies open to a superficial and childish kind of ridicule.
With camp equipment a party is always safe, though it is not easy to pitch tent in a high wind. I can forsee no object before you which can justify the risk of accident to yourself or to the other members of your party. I wish you to show these instructions to Debenham, who will take charge of the party in case you should be incapacitated.
He could forsee that his failure to find it would be followed by worse tortures, but he heeded not.
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