| 单词 | vaticination |
| 例句 | Whatever may seem of a larger import, in Seneca's language, than events had fully justified, belongs to the obscure and lofty strain of remote vaticinations, or to the exaggerations of flattery. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-15T03:00:31.720Z For the rest, you will be tired of hearing that, for vaticination, you, to excess, simplify. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Unfortunately, Lilly’s knowledge was always embodied ‘in generals,’ and the misty vagueness of his vaticinations renders it impossible for the reader to pin them down to any definite meaning. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Everybody knows the description given by Virgil of the Cumaean sybil at the moment of vaticination: "The god, the god, she cried," etc. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z If not, where was there room for marvel at Simeon's vaticination? The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules 2011-12-24T03:08:06.143Z The most that can be said of Mr. Whitman's vaticinations is, that, cast in a fluent and familiar manner, the average substance of them might escape unchallenged. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z I believe, however, that Lord Bacon may claim the merit of having been the first to notice this vaticination. Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-12T02:00:27.427Z I cannot but regard it as a suspicious circumstance that these vaticinations have hitherto invariably proceeded from members of the Revising body. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z And yet the formative and directive influence of his vaticinations, enunciated with tremendous spiritual heat and lofty gesture, has been very great. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Now, as undoubted matter of fact, the Babylonish captivity was the falsification of all such vaticinations, more particularly of that which affirmed that the descendants of David should not be treated as Saul was. The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules 2011-12-24T03:08:06.143Z He lingered for a while near that edge of the platform where the two aged ladies were seated, as though some faint vaticination of the advent of half-a-crown still haunted his bewildered faculties. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Had any one indulged in such a vaticination, however, his prediction would have been most ignominiously falsified by subsequent events. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z The old man's face was scarlet because of this contradiction of his own dismal vaticinations. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Not many moments elapsed before these vaticinations of ill fortune began to be verified. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z Why, Gentlemen! none of these worse than Cassandra vaticinations—why none of this panic, terror, confusion and flight, in Slave Society? Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z The weather prophets easily established a reputation for infallibility—according to the accepted modern standard of vaticination—by predicting invariably evil things. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z At this point our forecast has become so sombre that the optimistic reader may grow impatient with such pessimism, and may at least demand some confirmation of our vaticinations. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z He was himself destined in another thirty years to prove the truth of his own vaticination. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z "I sincerely wish that my vaticinations had not been verified." The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z A great poet seems to require his birth in an age when there are about him great self-revelations of man, for his vaticination. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Such lore had given her mind a sombre hue, and inclined her to indulge in the practice of vaticination. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. On Mr. Lowe's “most doleful vaticinations that ever were heard,” about the new voters repudiating the national debt and adopting an inconvertible paper currency, he poured easy ridicule. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) We see now the folly of the vaticinations against the endurance of our liberty which were uttered by many foreign wiseacres and some weak-kneed natives. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Many predicted that Piddler had now met with his match, and might even have to succumb; but their vaticinations were not verified in every instance. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z His assumptions and vaticinations are tremendous, but they are uttered with an authority and an assurance that convince like natural law. Whitman A Study The enemies of self-government at home and abroad are untiring in vaticinations that a dictatorship now, and after the war a strong centralized government, will be inaugurated. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 If it stooped in submission to any such expectation as that expressed, and dedicated itself to the crude vaticination of the transitory emotions and opinions, it had better turn journalism at once. Imaginary Interviews "You rate my powers of vaticination too high," he said slowly, "and—you are groping after an ideal." The Sign of the Spider And this was the end of the vaticinations of M. Selis, and such are the tears of things. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Mr. Newan professes to gave penned these vaticinations in the year 1744, twenty-one years after the date of his vision; so that he had ample time to mature them. Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc He tries to make them sure that a large Union party will soon be forthcoming in the South, and again sounds his vaticinations of the sacramental ninety days. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The condition, say of Bury, in Lancashire, at that time, contrasted with its condition to-day, is the adequate answer to these dreary vaticinations. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch The white people all believed more or less in portents, warnings and dreams; and trusting a little to their vaticination now, they could not yield the lingering hope that he was still alive. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Yet in these vaticinations, the true, patent danger was left out. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) After every election, our ears are vexed by the gloomy vaticinations of defeated candidates. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 It must be likewise taken into account,—and they say so themselves,—that Mr. Seward's oracular vaticinations about the end of the rebellion from sixty to ninety days confuse the judgment of diplomats. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Anything like a categorical answer to these questions would have to be a work of vaticination or of effrontery,—possibly as much to the point the one as the other. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation But I will deal in no more vaticinations of Evil. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 He was rather inclined to such pessimistic vaticinations; but it must be confessed that he spoke with too much reason on this occasion. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series The most notable of these vaticinations was "the Augury of the Hogs", Page 324 which he practised by the advice of a certain Jewish magician. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation About the meeting point so determined the population so determined has grouped itself—and this is the point I overlooked in those previous vaticinations—in accordance with laws that are also considerations of transit. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought These considerations are drawn from the seeming fitness of things, claims of parts beseeching completion, vaticinations of experience. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life It is easy not to share M. Rodin's gloomy vaticinations as to French sculpture based on the continued triumph of the Institute style and suavity. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Mr. Kiley's gloomy vaticinations as to the disastrous effect of the Plumage Bill on British commerce met with no encouragement from Sir Robert Horne. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 In one section of society I hear voices of melancholy vaticination. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences How are we to regard the vaticinations of the heathen oracle? Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood He did not even make them understand what his vaticinations of the resurrection meant. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life President Van Boozenberg thus unburdened his mind and justified his vaticinations to the knot of gentlemen who were perpetually at the bank. Trumps If you look at their vaticinations, you will find that they all select their winners out of the first four favourites. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892 "She came from that low doorway, beyond there at the right, where the two cypresses are; and she came at the very climax of my vaticination," said her ladyship. My Friend Prospero And what have become of Mr. Lowe's gloomy vaticinations as to the terrible consequences of the very moderate Reform Bill of 1866, followed as it was by a much more democratic measure? Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question No order, no system, no method anywhere in mundane things, and therefore no power of vision and vaticination. The Jericho Road They were silent; but hollow though time had branded their vaticinations the silence of the seers was not exactly golden. The Siege of Kimberley Notwithstanding the pathetic remonstrances and strange vaticinations of the canal proprietors, the Legislature incorporated the road and refused compensation to the canal. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 There is nothing in the gloomy vaticinations of Tocqueville, wise and benevolent as he is, which should be permitted to darken our future. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 In England, Ruskin too long ruled the critical roast; full of thunder-words like Isaiah, his vaticinations led a generation astray. Promenades of an Impressionist Almost every notable man in Piedmont contributed his quota of melancholy vaticination, in which the note, "I told you so!" was already audible. Cavour Strange dreams untold had visited him, and a German conjuror, who had made some strangely successful vaticinations, had told him that his worst enemy would come up to him from a lake. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 "A vaticination," says the commentator, "of the Spanish discovery of America." Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 Had she trusted rather to woman's vaticination, matters had been better for her. The Purchase Price There was no proportion in his mind; and vaticination and twaddle rolled off his eloquent tongue as chance would have it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Yet in these vaticinations, the true, patent danger was left out. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes The more practical father might chide such overreaching vaticinations, might reiterate— "Do not fill the boy's head with nonsense." In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Their vaticinations might be mere fallible guess-work; Don Cesar might live and give them the lie, so far as any external constraint is concerned. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller For which cause Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed Loxias. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 I have touched, in speaking to you, on certain vaticinations and certain advice given by a few good strangers to Canadians on the subject of the future of Canada. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses The art is merely Geomancy in its rudest shape; a mode of vaticination which, from its wide diffusion, must be of high antiquity. First Footsteps in East Africa A prophet's proper mantle is the long cloak of Harpocrates, and his best vaticinations are inspired more than uttered. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale Meanwhile the minstrel proceeded with his explanation of the dubious and imperfect vaticinations of which we have given a sufficient specimen. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Any vaticinations of changes to be wrought by some great and mysterious external power would, after our occupation of Egypt, naturally suggest the English. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography But this cannot be cemented by the publication of vain vaticinations. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses "You too have allowed yourself to be frightened by her vaticinations?" Napoleon and Blucher The prophecy was well known in the North, and it was not, like many similar vaticinations, made after the event. History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name Nor had Mrs. Harold Smith, nor Miss Dunstable, nor had a hundred others who now either listened to the vaticinations of Mr. Towers, or to the immediate report made of them. Framley Parsonage His gifts of dialectical vaticination made them look upon him as the lively oracle of the special Providence which he himself was accustomed to say presided over the British Empire. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography "What say the despatches touching the negotiations going on for peace?" asked Philibert, who knew how true were the Governor's vaticinations. The Golden Dog Rose wondered whether this were a general or a particular vaticination. The Chaperon The powers of vaticination possessed by such judges of drama can be fairly tested in the career of Salome on the European stage, apart from the opera. La Sainte Courtisane Here are the miraculous Three Days; heralding, in thunder, great things to Torrijos and others; filling with babblement and vaticination the mouths and hearts of all democratic men. Life of John Sterling |
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