Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 18, 2025
The prescient poet projects himself centuries ahead and judges performer or performance after the changes of time. Does it live through them? Does it still hold on untired? Will the same style and the direction of genius to similar points be satisfactory now?
He smiled his sad, prescient smile. "Soldiers deal with events, not theories. They learn to call a spade a spade, Miss Parker. I repeat: It wasn't a war to make the world safe for democracy. That phrase was just a slogan in a business campaign the selling of stock in a military enterprise to apathetic Americans. We had to fight or be overrun; when we realized that, we fought.
In justice however to the large class of Christians under the despotic and truly lamentable influence of this belief, the Author is bound to admit that they are far more consistent and logical in their notions of Deity than perhaps any other section of Theists, for it cannot properly be denied that the doctrine of an Omnipotent and Prescient God destroys all distinction of virtue and vice, justice and injustice, right and wrong, among men.
She suffered it to remain on her beautiful face only a few minutes, but it gave me reason enough to urge you to sound a warning if his Majesty's late love should render him more yielding than is desirable." "The warned man will heed what prescient wisdom enjoins upon him," the major-domo protested, with his hand upon his heart.
I thank you, Graeme!" said his Grace of Gatten, as he shook his host by the hand, till the tears stood in his eyes. The prescient Chambery had made a good dinner, and bore the joke philosophically. Coffee awaited the gentlemen in a small octagonal chamber, adjoining the music room. There stood Mr.
"Why, Eveliny an' the baby oughtn't ter be out in this hyar rain they'll be drenched," said the old woman, when they were all safely housed except the two. "Whar be she?" "A-foolin' in the gyarden spot a-getherin' seed an' sech, like she always be," said the sister-in-law, tartly. Absalom ran out into the rain without his hat, his heart in the clutch of a prescient terror.
We observe this to hold throughout the animal and vegetable kingdoms. In any one phase of the existence of the lower animals, we observe that they remember the corresponding stage, and a little on either side of it, of all their past existences for a very great length of time. As with memory, so with prescience. The higher they advance in the scale of life the more prescient they are.
I saw that if I put him on the defensive I should have him at advantage, for he had not that art of the true swordsman, the prescient quality which foretells the opponents action and stands prepared. There I had him at fatal advantage could, I felt, give him last reward of insult at my pleasure.
Moreover, these battles show not only generalship of the first order, but great statesmanship. They display that prescient knowledge which recognizes the supreme moment when all must be risked to save the state.
Through pride and faults of temper he had impaired his usefulness and marred his record. Even so there was that which rescued his work from the stigma of failure. He had guarded his people from the tomahawk and the scalping-knife. With prescient eye he had foreseen the imperial greatness of the West. Whatever his shortcomings, they had not been those of meanness or timidity.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking