| 单词 | omniscience |
| 例句 | I feel myself shift, already losing bits of my prenatal omniscience, tumbling toward the blank slate of person- hood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As always, my passes at omniscience are absurd, but you, of all people, should be polite to the part of me that comes out merely clever. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Naomi is older, and "seemed confident in all things", Keneally tells us, with the kind of old-fashioned omniscience one rarely encounters in fiction nowadays. The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally – review 2012-11-09T22:50:01Z Less interested in scene than in sweep, Allende nonetheless describes her characters’ emotions with great detail, writing in third person with an omniscience that drains any wonder from their choices and interactions. Review | In ‘A Long Petal of the Sea,’ Isabel Allende delivers another sentimental epic set in troubled times 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z And yet omniscience, it seems, isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. “Black Mirror” ’s “Bandersnatch” and the Pitfalls of Interactive Fiction 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Whether embodying a spiritual masseur at an Esalen-style retreat, a bartender, or even a hunky tennis pro, she remains poised between embracing warmth and distancing coolness, a discreetly entertaining font of omniscience. ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ Review: Four on a Mattress, With Songs 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But what good is all that omniscience without omnipotence? 'Wolf Hall' Recap: Henry Is All Heat, Fury and Menace 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Here, says America In Primetime, is a figure that encapsulates 60 years of American TV maleness, from the sexless omniscience of the postwar breadwinner to the achy-breaky self-doubt of today's Mr Boo Hoos. America In Primetime, an engrossing squint at US television 2013-04-20T05:00:00Z Although some readers found these asides a little donnish, the dispensation of particulars achieved a sensuous flow: you could go swimming in Porter’s omniscience. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z The question is: can we do any better — without falling into the trap of feigning omniscience? Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z Each is labeled according to time and place — they were all supposedly observed in London — slyly satirizing the Enlightenment fantasy of encyclopedic omniscience. Art Review: Armory Show, Modern and Contemporary, at Piers 92 and 94 2012-03-08T23:15:02Z While the director’s camera does not peer though that device again, the perspectives in this movie shift subtly but distinctly from adult’s eye view, to child’s eye view, to a hushed omniscience and back. ‘Suburban Birds’ Review: A Spectacular Directing Debut 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “He has the tidiest and most orderly brain, with the greatest capacity for storing facts, of any man living. . . . All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.” Review | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns to his other passion: Sherlock Holmes 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Nobody does omniscience like the broadcast network news, where anything short of nuclear war can be hammered into a calm recap. Perspective | TV viewers want the world — and the George Floyd story — to make sense. Good luck with that. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s kind of a vibey omniscience that proceeds by way of spare descriptions. Sally Rooney’s Novel of Letters Puts a Fresh Spin on Familiar Questions 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps that magical yet iffy omniscience — Sassy calls herself a griot, or traditional keeper of stories — would have felt less jarring in a more abstract production. Review: In ‘This Land Was Made,’ Huey Newton Walks Into a Bar 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z What holds it all together isn’t his omniscience so much as his curiosity, his historian’s hunger to figure out why what happened happened. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z They may showcase an intelligence baron or two to give us a glimpse of their omniscience and – wait for it – openness. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z “Read Me” is constructed not as a linear tale but rather in layers, sometimes recounting what the narrator actually sees and at others deploying an assumed omniscience. A Psychological Thriller Asks, Are We All a Little Stalker-ish? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Because of the shifts in omniscience, it quickly becomes clear that all of these characters are either withholding information or lying about something they believe will have no effect on the trial’s outcome. Review | ‘Miracle Creek’: A twisty legal thriller that shows how far parents will go for their kids 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Narrative omniscience seems required to produce a novel that appears to do justice to a complicated city, but not just because it allows for so many viewpoints. Guardian book club: Capital by John Lanchester 2013-03-01T17:42:01Z Dominic Dromgoole's spirited, even-handed and easily digested production for the Globe strips the Chorus of any semblance of objectivity or omniscience. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z The argument of Snowden’s supporters is that the fact that the government has this potential omniscience is in itself terrifying and a violation of freedoms, regardless of how or why it is ever used. Binge-Watching Picks for Edward Snowden 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z As a clinician, she is haunted, full of doubt and regret — leagues away from the twinkling omniscience of an Oliver Sacks. A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Yet, from time to time, things are shown that she doesn’t know—the filmmakers’ omniscience extends to things that Christine doesn’t know, but not to what she does know. “The Girlfriend Experience” Is Not an Experience 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z On air his urbane tenor speaking voice conveys a cool omniscience and authority that seem ageless. Gene Schiller, Music Director for Hawaii Public Radio 2012-06-24T01:23:03Z The plots let them defer responsibility for the fate of the world to demigods; the way they are shot – lots of signposting, everything carefully controlled – offers a false sense of omniscience. Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z That is, unless you have the blessed, empathic omniscience of a godly, forgiving artist like Ms. Barron. Review: ‘Dance Nation,’ the Power and the Terror of Girls at 13 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But the term “helicopter parent,” with its menacing tones of parental omniscience, has nothing on the intimate reach of the cyberparent. Cyber Parents, Accessing Perhaps, TMI 2013-05-03T22:57:13Z She succeeds only in opening her gray-haired mother’s eyes to the omniscience of Google, but that is no small feat. Theater Review: ‘More of Our Parts,’ Six Short Plays at Clurman Theater 2012-06-26T21:08:24Z Locally, where it counts, news of the move has met with a mix of hand-wringing and retroactive omniscience. Critic at Large David Kipen on El Segundo in literature 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The narrator's omniscience lets us see that being in London in this novel is, for every character, a habit of decoding. Guardian book club: Capital by John Lanchester 2013-03-01T17:42:01Z Sebold grants Susie a disembodied omniscience — the dead teenager hovers close to her loved ones as they grieve and look for answers surrounding her death. Dear Match Book: Seeking Literary Page-Turners 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z But your prose style — the present tense, second person, the omniscience blended into the almost hypnotic refrain first occurring in the title: ”This Is the Water” — is artfully perfect for the plot that unfolds. “Of course I’m not a prostitute”: Laura Kasischke and Yannick Murphy on first-person, genre fiction and parenthood 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z It also mercifully interrupts a tone that leans dangerously toward cracker-barrel omniscience, evoking Garrison Keillor spinning folksy tales of Lake Wobegon crossed with the avuncular narrator of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” | 'It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later': ?It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later? - Review 2012-01-09T03:01:00Z It is a thrillingly democratic use of omniscience, and, for a novel about class, race, family and the dangers of the status quo, brilliantly apt. In a Quiet Ohio Town, Who Started the Fire, and Why? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z There's Andrew, a puritanical young doctor with an air of "benevolent omniscience." Summer reading: Sizzling romance and more 2012-06-15T17:13:51Z And let's face it, Google isn't making us stupider, it's simply making us realise that omniscience is actually slightly boring. Why McLuhan's chilling vision still matters today 2011-07-20T18:00:15Z Once again, Trump demands faith from his listeners while asserting his future omniscience about a topic that every presidential candidate should already understand. Donald Trump thinks he’s a god. Even worse, his supporters agree 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z But the narration can also be alien, frightening, with an implacable omniscience. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Most shows are told from the comforting perspective of absolute omniscience, which guarantees a return on the viewer’s investment of time. Step 1 to start loving ‘The Affair’: Admit there’s no such thing as truth 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z So relentless is Gary’s insistence on narrative omniscience that she refuses to quote almost anyone. A Sleepy Biography for the Author of ‘Goodnight Moon’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The novel’s narrator addresses us with the brazen directness of our own moment’s memoirists, though Proust is strangely self-effacing, even his terrifying omniscience grounded in his repeated insistence that he really knows nothing at all. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z The Almighty's omniscience clearly includes a knowledge of Nielsen ratings and their theatrical box office implications. Sean Hayes plays the Creator with ironic camp in 'An Act of God' at the Ahmanson Theatre 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z When I bought Echo, I envisioned a future of advanced omniscience. Perspective | ‘Am I handsome?’ and other things I had asked Alexa before I knew my questions were being recorded 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z They don’t start out with the presumption of omniscience; they struggle like the rest of us. In Praise of Agatha Christie’s Accidental Sleuths 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Writing with the assurance and wry omniscience of an easygoing deity, Makumbi watches her protagonists live out invariably provisional answers. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Historians, he said, tend to default to a dry omniscient voice that hasn't changed since the 19th-century, despite the fact that historians no longer believe in that kind of omniscience. ArtsBeat: Historians Look Back, and Inward, at Annual Meeting 2013-01-04T23:52:38Z That dichotomy is essential to sustaining the mystical omniscience of a play that draws heavily from biblical scripture and Jewish ritual. Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Transfixing Epic of Riches and Ruin 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z At the same time, I try to surrender to the absence of certainty, and not be so addicted to some false sense of omniscience. Jeffrey Wright on ‘The Goldfinch,’ ‘Westworld’ and James Bond 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z His sense of omniscience is compensatory and more disturbing than ever. Trump's "persecutory delusion" ramps up 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z But the memoir makes no claim to omniscience. At the center of L.A.'s transformation: a man named Zev. His memoir is essential history 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s worth remembering that Greenspan’s reputation for omniscience did not last. Fed unsure of economy’s direction as Wall Street meltdown worsens 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z She slides from room to room, spying on the characters around her with an omniscience that aligns her with her creator. HBO’s dazzling ‘Irma Vep' is just the TV series to restore your faith in movies 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Conversations about Amazon tend to emphasize the company’s omniscience — the cutting-edge technologies that it uses to gather data on its competitors and customers and to discipline its workers. Opinion | What You Don’t Know About Amazon 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z I assured him it was generally quite careful and didn’t make claims of omniscience that could not be supported. Talking War and Market Volatility With a Giant of Economics 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Bjarnason’s sensation of an ominous omniscience lingers, but he has the wonder-inducing talent to not make you feel too bad about that. Review: A new piano concerto by Daníel Bjarnason gets a little help from Edgar Allan Poe 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z But for spectators, Mr. Orenstein’s invention offered a degree of omniscience seldom afforded in life, when the ending of a story can scarcely be seen at the beginning. Henry Orenstein, Holocaust survivor who helped bring Transformers to U.S. toy shelves, dies at 98 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z They are constant reminders not to become so self-confident that you start to mistake luck for knowledge, the arc of history for the strength of one’s own bootstraps, experience for omniscience. Perspective | Remembering where Colin Powell came from 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Scientific omniscience looks less likely than ever, and humans are far too diverse, creative and contrary to settle for a single worldview of any kind. Science Should Not Try to Absorb Religion and Other Ways of Knowing 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z I've been sketching here the highly self-indulgent claims to omniscience of people who consider themselves credentialed and entitled to determine a republic's grand strategies. What "politics" does to history: The saga of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz's right-hand man 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z At that time, male sportswriters tended to write from a position of lofty omniscience, which I found incredibly tedious. 'Who knew people wanted a funny book on punctuation?': Lynne Truss on writing Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The successful man always assumes that success in his field gives him a warrant to speak with an air of omniscience on every human and social problem. Do business leaders have any business being president? Available evidence says no 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z And as algorithms improve, and more of our lives are lived online, that bureaucratic dream of omniscience is fast becoming corporate reality. What Google and Facebook owe to a 19th-Century machine 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Gibson noticed that people with access to unlimited information could develop illusions of omniscience. How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The main questioner, however, is heard only through speakers, which creates a sense of omniscience. Review: Tim Robbins and the Actors' Gang return us to the harrowing events of '1984' 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Physicists were not the only scientists bewitched by the dream of omniscience. The Delusion of Scientific Omniscience 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z The goal is to give users a kind of local omniscience — perfect situational awareness of what’s around every corner and behind each hill. With border security start-up Anduril, Palmer Luckey charges into tech's most heated debate 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Initially, the famous artist’s avatar, “David,” seems inert, too shackled by predestination and weighed down by narrative omniscience. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Holland Michel’s book is not the first to look at technologies intended to achieve omniscience, but it is among the best. Hollywood and hyper-surveillance: the incredible story of Gorgon Stare 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Yeah, we do a lot of that … ” in a tone of serene omniscience – that’s who I’m talking about. My dispiriting, infuriating – and illuminating – time as a political telemarketer 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z But the concept of scientific omniscience always suffered from fatal flaws. The Delusion of Scientific Omniscience 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z These companies mythologized their own omniscience when it was a boon to their business. How Secrecy Fuels Facebook Paranoia 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Science and progress are asymptotic curves reaching ever upward but never touching omniscience or omnibenevolence. The Case for Scientific Humanism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z She also took pictures of maps, their folds evident, their edges clearly rendered within the frame — as if noting the limits of human omniscience. In quiet yet visceral works, Zoe Leonard captures the frailty, pain and eccentricities of human life 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It was part of a profound theological reorganisation: the French Revolution dethroned not only the monarch, but also God, whose superlative attributes – omniscience and omnipotence – were now absorbed into the institutions of the state itself. The demise of the nation state 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z There may still be a few true believers in scientific omniscience out there. The Delusion of Scientific Omniscience 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Indeed, hinting at its drive for omniscience, Zuckerberg once habitually talked about what Facebook insiders called radical transparency, an idea that partly amounted to an insistence that old ideas about privacy were becoming outmoded. The Cambridge Analytica saga is a scandal of Facebook’s own making | John Harris 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z They may aspire to divine levels of omniscience, but they risk driving away their followers in the process. Learning to Fool Our Algorithmic Spies 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Economists mostly recognise that normal people—their friends and family—fall short of omniscience and perfect rationality in making day-to-day decisions. Richard Thaler wins the Nobel prize for economic sciences 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z His three novels are remarkable for the distinctiveness of their styles, but also for their special uncanniness, their relentless omniscience. Bruce Chatwin: One of the Last Great Explorers 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z This is the song where he proclaims his literal omniscience, then complains about a lack of baked goods. Harder? Better? Faster? Stronger? Why is every trailer soundtracked by Kanye? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The camera work is meticulous and exquisite in its expression, creating a sense of tense foreboding throughout, linking characters and images with a creepy omniscience. Primal needs rule in dystopian thriller 'The Survivalist' 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z This is the omniscience not only of a writer but of a wife. The Art and Activism of Grace Paley 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z And its conclusion — that perfection in life can be achieved only with repetition and omniscience — is both pleasurable on a narrative level and poignant on a philosophical one. 'Before I Fall' is a warm, empathetic mash-up of 'Groundhog Day' and 'Mean Girls' 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z With his new novel, his first in seven years, Auster takes authorial omniscience to a new level, spinning four separate but simultaneous tales about the life — or lives — of Archie Ferguson. Paul Auster’s ‘4 3 2 1’: four versions of one man’s life 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z A narrator is by definition a kind of outsider, someone whose very omniscience both elevates and relegates them to the margins of the story. John Hurt on film: A voice of wit, mischief and wily humanity 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z As such, their writings often attempted to bridge the gap between human reason and divine omniscience. What Life Was Like in the World’s First Ghetto 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The omniscience of the film’s perspective and the fluidity of the editing ease us into the narrative yet slowly divest us of our moral bearings. Once banned, 'Battle of Algiers'' smart, compassionate take on terror and rebellion resonates today 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The broad public grasp of football strategy may never progress far beyond Madden’s limits, never mind approach omniscience. What Playing Madden Teaches Us About Football — And What It Doesn’t 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z That’s because monetary wizards, like brain surgeons and rocket scientists, tend to cultivate an aura of omniscience. Exclusive: Janet Yellen Talks Transforming the Fed 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Laplace called this intellect a “demon,” and it’s not hard to see why: It offered the possibility of omniscience, but it left no room for free will. We didn’t see Donald Trump coming. But we could have. 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z She would find that first and figure out the suspect’s omniscience later. To Catch a Rapist 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z They just departed, sometimes by a matter of millimetres, from some bizarre set of specifications that defines, with apparent omniscience, what it is that we, the customers, demand our parsnips to be. Viewpoint: The rejected vegetables that aren’t even wonky - BBC News 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z He himself has dismissed philosophy altogether—as nonsense rendered obsolete by the omniscience of monolithic science. Bill Gates and Elon Musk are wrong: Artificial intelligence is not going to take over the world 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z This is crucial, since all presidents rely on advisers, contrary to their pretensions to omniscience. Want to be president? Show us how you’d handle a disaster. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It was the only way to win back that feeling of omniscience that, for me at least, is essential to writing a good story. Erin Brockovich Writer: Success Doesn't Make You Better 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z There’s nothing quite like the look of a jerk whose smug omniscience gets shattered by a singular sound — that of a reporter asking a serious question. TAMMY BRUCE: Questions for Obama on Iran 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The history of conceptions of omniscience is also a history of database media in all their forms, an implicit catalog of different recording formats. Google wants to be God’s mind: The secret theology of “I’m feeling lucky” 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z I started at the paper very much afflicted with the insufferable omniscience of many twenty-something writers. Postscript: David Carr (1956-2015) 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z This mobile technology brings us one step closer to omniscience. Seven Startups You Probably Haven't Heard Of - But Should 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Such omniscience has the potential to reverse the perverse incentives–which emphasize treatments rather than results–driving America’s annual health costs past $3 trillion. Medicine's Manhattan Project: Can The World's Richest Doctor Fix Health Care? 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z In Berlin, Mr. Murphy radiated a sense of omniscience to his family. David Murphy, Soviet ops chief at CIA, dies Technology pursues the classical divine attributes of omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence—knowing everything, being everywhere, being capable of anything. Apple Watch: To Wear It Like a Man—Or a God? 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The NSA seeks something like omniscience regarding electronic communications. Eugene Robinson: NSA’s misguided snooping on innocent people This is a version of the popular journalist's "fallacy of omniscience by proximity". Sex and the French 2014-01-17T15:18:01Z We are a species that increasingly has omnipotence without omniscience. Wild Bees Won't Survive in a Human-Dominant World 2013-08-11T16:50:29Z Israel takes considerable pride in its security services, whose reputation for effectiveness – if not omniscience — is counted as a force multiplier even for a small nation accustomed to punching above its weight. Israeli Officials Speak to TIME of Their Own Snowdens 2013-06-26T03:05:24Z Which is why it is worth stating and restating the theologically obvious: the NSA is not God – however much it might aspire to the absolute power of omniscience. In the NSA we trust: the trouble with faith in an omniscient state 2013-06-17T14:28:41Z Already the implied omniscience of the digital revolution is a gift to power. The digital revolution? It's all a gift to the power of the state 2013-05-15T06:00:40Z That's about the most radical form of omniscience I can think of. Just how fast can Formula One cars go? 2013-03-13T15:40:01Z Just as God's omniscience convinced Christians that they could see into the future, the enviable track record of science convinces secular prophets that they can see new Jerusalems or great tribulations around the corner. Mayan apocalypse: it's not just the religious who try to be prophets 2012-12-21T12:10:36Z Such omniscience could make artificial athletes unbeatable—if their hardware were up to scratch. Robot sport: Heavy hitters 2012-07-19T15:02:30Z In his omniscience are embraced all human actions. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z It is only those who have an unworthy conception of omniscience and omnipotence that can doubt this. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z Lady Grant could never miss an opportunity to emphasize the mysterious and sacerdotal omniscience that belonged to the profession of medicine. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z "Alas! there is a limit to omniscience," he said, shaking his head gently. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z It cannot be righteous for the “omnipotent” to be making human beings contrived and designed by his omniscience so as to be fitted for the commission of sin. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z As he has omnipotence, he has omniscience too, he is “the Lord who knows all things,” the Asura viçva-vedas. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Plainly he and his companions were about to solve the mystery of what lay hidden round that corner which our omniscience is pleased to consider the end of all things. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z But the man's omniscience cowed my spirit, terrified me, and broke me down. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z I challenge the omniscience of the Home Office to say whether I ever countenanced anything of the kind in word or deed. Life and Character of Richard Carlile 2012-03-14T02:00:25.327Z The local librarian presently to be consulted needs to combine patience and method with something like omniscience. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z As still to its asymptote speedeth the curve, So approximates Man—Thee, who reachable not, Hast formed him to yearningly Follow thy whole Sole and single omniscience!” Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z But its reputation for omniscience, for being able to reach anywhere, began with the capture of Eichmann. The Art of Nazi Hunting: How the Mossad Found Adolf Eichmann 2012-01-06T06:55:00Z Autocrats, curiously enough, can be particularly vulnerable since their air of omniscience will become absurd as soon as they stumble. Fabio Capello: a bullying autocrat whose invincible aura faded 2012-02-08T21:56:08Z He is putting the forefinger of his left hand into the centre of his right, and upon each of the hands is an eye, denoting, I presume, the omniscience of the Deity.” The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z Her sense of omniscience, of companionship with the infinite, was quite gone. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z When he acknowledged and avowed his ignorance of the day of judgment, which must be presumed to be the most important event in the world's history, he disclaimed the attribute of omniscience. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z But I think you will agree with me, my courteous reader, that the dogmatic omniscience of these historical critics is really beginning to surpass human endurance. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z She read it over wondering and trembling, with a sudden awful sense of the editor's omniscience as she saw the letters "H. P."—her husband's initials—Harry Pallant. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z We are not believers, like some folks, in the omniscience of even Shakespeare. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Chopra: There is an omnipresence and omnipotence and omniscience to the cosmos, and it is very ordered, intelligent, and creative. Smart, Loving Universe or Mechanistic Physical Laws?: Interview 2011-12-20T15:46:01Z It is our old friend the Doctor, with his Bolognese jargon, long-winded citations, insipid tomfooleries, and absurd pretensions to omniscience. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Some thought drifted into our mind and filled us with vague forebodings of omniscience. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z His reputation for omniscience was more firmly established than ever. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Charles' face grew clear again at once—at any rate, the man did not claim omniscience. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Life has not given us infallibility, any more than it has given us omniscience, or omnipotence, or any other of those attributes which we call divine. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Moreover, as Canon Liddon argued, it is not so much a question of Christ's omniscience as a question of his infallibility. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z Gladstone goes in for omniscience; Does the team obey the bit As when Pam's whip stung with banter, Or when Canning's cut with wit? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 2011-11-19T03:00:22.947Z He prescribes with dictatorial omniscience what is good, what is bad, what should be practised and what avoided. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z I ceased to be flattered by the implied tribute to my omniscience, and felt rather like a person who gives up a third-class ticket after he has ridden in a first-class carriage might feel. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z To more than know a thing, speaking of that thing only, is impossible even to omniscience itself; for knowledge is but the same in both the infinite and finite minds. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z Even our public schools, that favorite emblem of our omniscience, have been declared by authority to merit interest but by no means grovelling admiration on the part of the effete peoples of Europe. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z His ubiquity, his omniscience, have indeed never been disproved by his critics or his enemies. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z It would be unjust towards theology to say that it has never seen the incompatibility of Free Will with divine omniscience. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Miss Delmege had only once been afforded a view of the back of Sir Piers Vivian's white head in church, but she made the assertion with her usual air of genteel omniscience. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z But do these successes bring us any nearer to omniscience. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The idea of God's omniscience, too, may come readily enough to a child accustomed to look up admiringly to the boundless knowledge of some human authority, say a clergyman. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z The practice of anonymous writing affords, of course, obvious conveniences to a superficial omniscience. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Where we are to-day, we know, and only God in His omniscience knows the final answer as to our future estate. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z A theometer—an instrument of instruments—he gathers in himself all forces, partakes in his plenitude of omniscience, being the Spirit's acme, and culmination in nature. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Apollo, according to the ode, was himself aware, in his omniscience, of the frailty of Coronis. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z He does not say that others may not have sufficient knowledge of a primal cause of things; but lacking it himself, he concludes that veracity in statement may be a virtue where omniscience is denied. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z The wheels symbolize divine omniscience and control, and the whole vision represents the coming of Yahweh to take up his abode among the exiles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z In writing it I had the advantage of comparative youth and of that self-confident omniscience which only youth can have. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z To disperse these, his own spiritual mind must ray forth the light reflected from the source of light—omniscience. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Mr. Manning, who prejudices his own case by speaking of Boyma as "the Almighty," next introduces us to a "Son of God" equal to the father as touching his omniscience, and otherwise but slightly inferior. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z But now that he has gathered all his knowledge he wants it to amount to omniscience, and most imprudently shuts his eyes to the places where there is nothing under his feet. Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z For a second time the German spy system fell a good deal short of its reputed omniscience. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z Without stepping beyond the analogy of that which is known, it is easy to people the cosmos with entities in ascending scale, until we reach something practicably indistinguishable from omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z As such I possess a sort of quasi omnipresence and a quasi omniscience, for I exist wherever man exists, and, dwelling in human hearts, know all that men think, feel, and do. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Centuries succeeded to centuries, and the learned went on translating, commenting, and interpreting, the sacred obscurity of the autocratical edict of a genius whose lofty omniscience seemed to partake in some degree of divinity itself. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It flattered him with the possession of something like omniscience. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z We find judgments pronounced in one edition of his works with the confidence of omniscience, and retracted in another with frank self-contempt, but with unabated confidence. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Science, even in its flourishing modern estate, falls a trifle short of omniscience. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z It must be admitted that our excellent correspondent has set forth the claims of 'Adolphe' and 'Alexis,' and similar interesting abstractions, to the powers of omnipresence and omniscience, with great candor and becoming gravity. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z And especially may we not believe this, when, in his omniscience and his truth, he has declared that his purposes will forever be righteous, benevolent, and wise? A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z But no man is gifted with omniscience; and there are occasions when the wisest in thought, and quickest in action, may be overtaken. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z I bow to your omniscience as a newspaper master. Giller to Murdoch: pull down the paywalls 2011-03-11T09:16:12Z Only omniscience could have foreseen and guarded against this disastrous complication of adverse circumstances. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z She had acquired what is infinitely better than the superficial omniscience which is so much cultivated in these days. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z Does not such a proposition detract from the omnipotence of God, in the same proportion in which it aims to exalt his omniscience?” A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z For to suppose that there was a point of duration when the plan was first conceived, would imply new knowledge in one confessedly omniscient; and that destroys the idea of omniscience. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Universal happiness would require omniscience to legislate for it and the “normal” or, as some would say, “perfect” man to desire it; neither of these conditions of its realization is at present in existence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z His chief weapons against the new ideas were social superiority and omniscience, and he used both unsparingly. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z "We know it all, Herr Frank," asserted the Assessor, with a look which betokened omniscience, to say the least. Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.700Z And as we approach immortality, omniscience and omnipotence, will our lives still have meaning? 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal 2011-02-10T07:45:00Z I speak not here of the divine omniscience, which we know reaches every thought and action; but I refer to created beings. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The subconscious powers, knowing nothing, yet approached omniscience; enjoyed omnipresence, while still being here. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Whether the Englishman was successful or not, he was a “fathead,” because no Irishman was silly enough to put his pocket before his politics or to prefer his neighbour’s omniscience to his own. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Here king David teaches us that God has laid a mirror of his omniscience and eternal wisdom into man, into the hearing ear, and seeing eye, those two wonderful powers of the human body. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z So far the terrible omniscience of the blind man in the dark and the respect for his markmanship with which his coolness had inspired them, dominated the group. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities and relations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z I need to be careful not to confuse that ultimate with another, omniscience. Well: Nurse Disagrees With the Doctor 2010-10-13T16:25:00Z There is no omniscience here, just experienced and well-meaning people attempting to understand and help. 2010-01-26T05:00:00Z In a country that likes to project a sense of omniscience to its citizens, these rampages—coming in on top of the other—have shaken Chinese confidence. 2010-01-04T19:45:00Z I have solved the rebus of existence and have put on omniscience. Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile Therefore it is right to hold, as we do, that omniscience is produced when the hindrances are removed by the three means before alluded to. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy The emperor Hadrian characteristically tested its omniscience by a question as to the birthplace of Homer. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius I could not help asking a bit grimly; for his air of omniscience always prepared me for some specious creation of his own fancy. Witching Hill The omniscience of God had been faint sustenance then compared with this feeble finite shadow of the same that shot thrilling through the spirit of the boy. The Unknown Sea Obligingly, and with the peaceful aura of omniscience, she took them into her parlor and told them of things to come. The Year When Stardust Fell Of these two powers the visual, while only one power, is, according to its diversity of objects, indirectly describable as of five kinds, vision, audition, cogitation, discrimination, and omniscience. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy There was no limit to this, for the experiments show that there is some quality in the soul of man that seems to be omniscient, or in direct correspondence with omniscience. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 The General looked a little nonplussed, for, like many generals of all nationalities, he had no slight penchant for omniscience. The Firebrand "But what have I to reveal; what mystery is there that your omniscience has not penetrated?" The Fortunes Of Glencore As Gud knew all things he knew the answer to his question before he asked it, but he thought it best to ask anyway in order to verify his omniscience. The Book of Gud If anybody had omniscience it would be we British of course, but I confess, Wharton, that this is beyond me. The Guns of Europe For one brief hour, I have imagined myself possessed of omniscience. On the Heights A Novel He would rather be judged by omniscience than by a judgment that can scrutinise only his outward conduct. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II There were those, however, who maintained that Celestine knew all languages, that there was a dark omniscience about her. East Angels And to their minds, reborn to omniscience of the truth of what had been as it had really been, came also the memories of what they thought had been. The Book of Gud The Brydges woman was pretty, rich, and charming; omniscience was her pose. Man and Maid This is the knowledge and wisdom of God, the omniscience which renders Him all-knowing and all-wise. Jewish Theology I have mentioned a scarcely concealed feeling in the saloon against the omniscience of the wireless operator. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Ember passed smoothly over this flaw in his professional omniscience. The Destroying Angel If wealth were distributed by omniscient wisdom and power according to the maxim of Louis Blanc, the higher welfare would still be as far away as ever, unless the same omniscience should control all actions. Rural Health and Welfare Through it all he held in reserve the fixed cat-grin which implied a bemused omniscience, a dreadful knowledge of secret human standards. Command Accordingly, if we are to speak in human terms, we may consider God's wisdom the element which determines His various motive-powers,—omniscience, omnipotence, and goodness,—to tend toward the realization of His cosmic plan. Jewish Theology The impersonal relator is omniscient, but his omniscience is not so obtrusive as in the story that touches on the facts of the soul. The Technique of Fiction Writing Might it not have been the same with omniscience? The Christian View of the Old Testament One of Southbourne’s foibles was to pose as a kind of “Sherlock Holmes,” but I was not in the least impressed by this pretension to omniscience. The Red Symbol The devil is his rival in the spiritual world and, according to the current doctrine, his equal in omniscience and omnipresence, and a close and terrible antagonist in the contest for omnipotence. From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography The doctrine of man's free will presents another difficulty from the side of divine omniscience. Jewish Theology As said by Addison, "omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for its full attainment." Concerning Justice I was very much puzzled, but the force with which Tibertius' omniscience was affirmed impressed me. Contemporary Russian Novelists As to any hope of reclaiming them, he had long ago given that up, though not without a certain disappointment in the omniscience of that Providence which could refuse the co-operation of his valuable agency. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. But in answer to his despatches, proposing such a compromise, Stanley, with his dogmatic omniscience, and eloquent certainty, had nothing but regrets to express, and difficulties to suggest. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 In order to escape this dilemma, the Mohammedan theologians were compelled to limit either the divine omniscience or human freedom, and most of them resorted to the latter method. Jewish Theology Pushed on by the influence of the lower population, it fell into the depths of anthropomorphism, asserting for the Virgin and the saints such attributes as omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition He does not lay any claim to omniscience. The Defects of the Negro Church The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 10 Miss Dickenson lodged her claim to a mild form of omniscience by saying with presence of mind:—"Exactly!" but without presumption, so that only her near neighbours heard her. When Ghost Meets Ghost One would have supposed it quite as easy to divest the Christ-figure of any inconvenient attributes as to eliminate omniscience and omnipotence from the God-idea. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' Philosophical inquiry into the ideas of the divine omnipotence and omniscience, however, discloses many difficulties. Jewish Theology Sometimes it is one of omniscience, sometimes of blind perplexity. Memoirs of Life and Literature Now an author assuming absolute omniscience could tell us what each of them was thinking at the self-same moment: the locked door would not be a bar to him. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews And, if he did, his editorial omniscience could hardly have given him knowledge of any of my slum garrets. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography It is true that there are passages in the Gospels which no more accord with Mr. Shaw's sociology than do omnipotence and omniscience with the theology of Mr. Wells. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' Nor can He abrogate the laws of nature, which are really His own rules for His creation, without detracting from both His omniscience and the immutability of His will. Jewish Theology Not even in the range of God’s omniscience is there a reason why Christ will refuse any poor sinner who comes to Him for pardon. Sovereign Grace Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects Therefore, in assuming a point of view external to the characters, it is usually wiser for the author to accept a compromise and to impose certain definite limits upon his own omniscience. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews I am uneasy at the prospect, because this conception of uncultured omniscience, the calm eyes of him shining with the pride of Government-stamped knowledge, is inseparable from an utter lack of reverence for women. An Ocean Tramp These charitable souls excuse the egotism, the personality, the violence, the inconsistency, the absurd assumption of omniscience and Admirable-Crichtonism, on the plea that "Christopher" is only the ideal Editor and not the actual Professor. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The idea of divine omniscience could ripen only gradually in the minds of the people. Jewish Theology It requires the wisdom of omniscience to decide how much wickedness there may be in the heart, consistently with piety. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series The only phase of this device which we need to examine is that wherein the novelist's omniscience is limited to a single character. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews I wonder," she said, with a brow of ruffled omniscience and eyeing me rather severely with a magnified eye, "why it is called Titlis. The Passionate Friends No. And in a lesser man, that sort of omniscience could be infernally irritating. Fifty Per Cent Prophet Obviously the idea of divine omniscience took hold of the people as a result of the admonitions of the prophets. Jewish Theology He was no longer sure, as he once was, that he had omniscience for his guide. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country I imagined that living in fashionable society in London, he did not like the somewhat scholastic title of Professor which, in London particularly, has always a by-taste of diluted omniscience and conceit. My Autobiography A Fragment Jack's omniscience was one of his most awful attributes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 To do otherwise, to claim omniscience for His human intellect is gross monophysitism. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology His omniscience and omnipotence are bound up with His omnipresence and eternity. Jewish Theology Arguments that would look fallacious in the nursery are used in the pulpit, generation after generation, with an air of solemn profundity, as though they were as wise as the oracles of omniscience. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Yet an infinite, immutable, omniscient, and perfect being must exist, because infinity, immutability, omniscience, and perfection are applied as correlatives in my ideas of finitude, change, etc. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The only phase of this device which we need to examine is that wherein the novelist’s omniscience is limited to a single character. A Manual of the Art of Fiction On those occasions divine intuition superseded in Him the slow and faulty methods of human intelligence; thought was vision, intellect intuition, knowledge omniscience. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology In it the eternal verities of the Jewish faith, God's omnipotence, omniscience, and moral government of the world, are conveyed in the historical narratives as an introduction to the law. Jewish Theology They were held, Robertson says, "as solemn appeals to the omniscience and justice of the Supreme Being." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) It is only God who can bear the awful light of omniscience and of omnipresence. A Singer from the Sea Now an author assuming absolute omniscience could tell us what each of them was thinking at the selfsame moment: the locked door would not be a bar to him. A Manual of the Art of Fiction They are lost in the divine omniscience, omnipotence and transcendent love. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Therefore the idea of God's omnipotence must be coupled with that of His omniscience. Jewish Theology Ilse smiled that wise, wholesome smile of hers: “Suppose you renounce your own omniscience, darling,” she suggested. The Crimson Tide A Novel The attitude of omniscience and omnipotence has often been crudely stated by the Catholic hierarchy. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule You see, he was already acquiring the first ingredient of the American character—omniscience, for he found that in New York no one ever admits that he doesn't know everything. The Vagrant Duke He was obsequious, but impassioned, full of cajolery, but not for a moment did he try to impose upon his countrywoman by any assumption of omniscience. The Spanish Jade Dr. Vereker had a good opportunity of studying omniscience of a malignant type in the very well marked case of his own mother. Somehow Good “On what authority except your own omniscience do you so confidently preach the non-existence of omnipotence?” The Crimson Tide A Novel He pleads that omniscience and contingency are incongruous ideas, and, on the ground of pure metaphysics, it would be difficult to refute him. On Calvinism The omniscience of officials had given place to a less satisfactory if more human ignorance; last come was first served, and a seat in a train seemed by no means to insure transportation. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories But it is not for us to assume the province of omniscience. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject She had no reason for supposing this; but a general atmosphere of omniscience among grown-up classes is morally desirable. Somehow Good Not only what happens in the next room, but what is thought at the other side of the world, is comprehended in his omniscience. English: Composition and Literature How the repentance of God is to be reconciled with the wisdom and omniscience of God. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood And again, “At this rate, events would come forth uncaused from the womb of non-entity, to which omnipotence did not give birth, and which omniscience could not foresee.” A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory But the idea of man's freedom clashed with the doctrine of God's omniscience. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The eye is intended to denote the divine omniscience. Romulus Makers of History It had shattered his belief in his omniscience. The Orchard of Tears “Do you insist on being the only and perfect embodiment of omniscience?” A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories We can believe no such thing; and we are not willing to admit that there is any part of the creation of God in which omniscience alone can cope with the atheist. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Accordingly he maintains freedom in all its rigor, and mitigates the conception of omniscience. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy This would be to limit the omniscience of God by the short-sighted ignorance of man. The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller But I perceive now that my thought was a seed containing my omniscience in microcosm. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Such an exposure moves one to sorrow over a writer whose omniscience used to make the timorous believe that arrogance, if lively enough, had some advantage over reason. Waiting for Daylight The free actions of men are clearly reflected back in the mirror of the divine omniscience—they are not projected forward from the engine of the divine omnipotence. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory God's omniscience must be maintained in all its rigor. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Divine omniscience alone can see the end from the beginning and foretell the great events that shall mark the history of the world, and affect the interests of the church. Modern Spiritualism We are not believers, like some folks, in the omniscience of even Shakspeare. Spare Hours According to Luther, therefore, nothing can or does occur independently of God, or differently from what His omniscience has foreseen. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Our joy in the thought of omniscience makes us attribute joy to the possession of it, which it would in fact perhaps be very far from involving or even allowing. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory In some of his earlier writings he insists that anything short of absolute omniscience in God is unthinkable. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Others might doubt His omniscience, but they knew its reality. Memories of Bethany Now a long association with the idea of omniscience has rendered him wiser in consciousness than in fact, which is a joke the imagination often plays upon serious people. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance God in His majesty is supreme and man cannot resist His omnipotence, nor thwart His decrees, nor foil His plans, nor render His omniscience fallible. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church When omniscience was denied us, we were endowed with versatility. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Later, however, he maintains that God's omniscience and man's freedom are absolutely incompatible, and solves the difficulty in a manner similar to that of Crescas by curtailing freedom as formerly understood. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy I know," said Mrs. Parry, not liking to have her omniscience questioned; "Trim told me. A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story And so, in spite of your sweet reasoning with me, and the assumption you make of omniscience concerning me, my convictions remain. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance He eyed the King's Messenger with an expression of melancholy omniscience. The Long Trick And yet they affect, at all times, an amusing omniscience. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 This includes ethics and other topics related thereto, theodicy, providence, free will and its compatibility with God's omniscience. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy It was so during the days of Ahab, when the eye of omniscience beheld at least seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal. John the Baptist The sentiment of "doing good" and of controlling great wealth leads rapidly to megalomania, and Mr Carnegie cannot conceal the pride of omniscience. American Sketches 1908 "You—you——" she paused in consternation, aware again of this man's omniscience. The Secret Witness I never stopped to question whether the matter were true, because I in my omniscience knew it to be impossible. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Maimonides gives up neither God's omniscience nor man's absolute freedom, and escapes the dilemma by taking refuge in his idea of God's transcendence. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy "Please, sir, that was asafœtida and—" "And butyl mercaptan; I'm quite aware of that," said the Doctor quickly, to continue the tradition of omniscience. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World The clairvoyant does not become infallible simply by reason of the perhaps only faint awakening of his clairvoyant vision—he is not suddenly gifted with omniscience, as some seem to suppose. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. The Pursuit of God The Monitor cultivated the sense of omniscience, which it communicated in turn to all the members of its staff. The Candidate A Political Romance If so, how can we reconcile this with God's omniscience, who knows beforehand how the person will act at a given moment? A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The teaching included the attainment of perfection through marriage, and claimed omniscience for Koreshism, which could throw new light upon all things, including such subjects as astronomy and philosophy. Modern Saints and Seers For this it has been regarded as sufficient to ascribe to the world an underlying unity capable of bearing the predicates of perfection, omnipotence, and omniscience. The Approach to Philosophy That is opposed to the omniscience of Jesus. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul The detective of the successful novel resembles the Deity in his attributes of ubiquity and omniscience. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. If so, we defend freedom at the expense of God's omniscience. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Does the Archdeacon claim the attribute of omniscience? The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Philosophy always assumes the hypothetical view of omniscience. The Approach to Philosophy His omniscience wills That I go forth among the haunts of men And offer evil to their touch. Mr. Faust He, at any rate, had no doubt of his own omniscience. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties We have all known people who made a specialty of omniscience. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman It displays omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, holiness, justice, and benevolence. Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker Nevertheless it is significant that no human individual can possibly possess the range of omniscience. The Approach to Philosophy Didn't you find my family's omniscience and total recall a trifle overdone? The Capgras Shift But perfect scheming demands omniscience, and the notary’s envy had been stimulated into hatred by causes of which Tito knew nothing. Romola You will no doubt find excellent grounds for doubting his ability to reconstruct; for suspecting what you will feel to be his pretentious breadth of view, his assumed omniscience. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 A might approaching omnipotence was vouchsafed me, but no power of omniscience to direct my hand or stay its effects. Edmond Dantès But this must not be said: it would limit the omniscience of the a priori school of physical inquirers, the larger half of the whole, and would be very unphilosophical. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I The hypnotist is usually endowed by the subject with an omniscience and infallibility which logically is unjustified. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis In a word, omniscience would be necessary to enable one to make such a reply. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles His tone of prophetic and impeccable omniscience was vexatious at all times, but particularly galling at this agitated period. Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 This is a question frequently asked by inquiring Congressmen, who imagine that an answer may readily be had from one of those gifted librarians who is invested with that apocryphal attribute, commonly called omniscience. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries The title promises much, and the writer has smart thoughts now and then; but the whole is the wearisome omniscience of the author's day and country, which no reader of our time can tolerate. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I We should realize that even complete knowledge may not preclude the propriety of making inquiries, and, moreover, that even omniscience does not imply ever-present consciousness of all that is. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Christ's voice and form, omniscience and humility, in taking such trouble to win one to Himself—these were sufficient to convince him, and dispel all doubt. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. It seemed to the new age of critics and poets that they had rediscovered him, and they hastened to raise him from neglect to the throne of omniscience. The Facts About Shakespeare His theme was the omniscience of the Deity, and he told his simple audience how the same God who made all rolling spheres made the minutest living things also, and all things intermediate. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Not that we dislike omniscience; but we have it of our own country, both home-made and imported; and fashions vary. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I While in the flesh He laid no claim to omniscience; though whatever He willed to know He learned through the medium of communication with the Father. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Sir Robert Perry alone knew nothing, had heard nothing, and would guess nothing—by which adroit attitude he doubled his reputation for omniscience. Half a Hero A Novel To God we apply the attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence. The Genius They said "Hah!" and "Hum!" in tones of omniscience which would have converted a Christian Scientist; and, when feeling one's pulse, they produced the largest and most audibly-ticking gold watches producible by the horologist's art. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography In like manner we have a London omniscience now current, which would make any one start who only knew the old French article. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I He says, "Either we must admit the knowledge of the priests, or turn converts to the ancients, and believe in the omniscience of Apollo, which in this age I know nobody in hazard of." Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Knew all about building Snow Men, he did; had a private monopoly of omniscience in that, as in most other things, Bill had. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 There are, however, those to whom human freedom presents itself, not as a contradiction to Divine omniscience, but as a contradiction in terms. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive "Ye met her last night," said Mungo, calmly, seeming to enjoy the rapidity with which his proofs of omniscience could be put forth. Doom Castle But surely there can be but one omniscience? A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I The angels do not become aware of the fact by a species of subordinate omniscience. The Parables of Our Lord His silence may be golden, or it may be just a habit; but from the known character of Calder it is never the omniscience of stupidity. The Masques of Ottawa However, since you are young and callow, and were thoroughly convinced of your own omniscience and omnipotence, it is natural enough that you derived little or no benefit from that information. The Galaxy Primes An infallible pope and an infallible council might have done something in this way, if good sense had been among the attributes of their omniscience. Short Studies on Great Subjects There is no objection to be made to the principles of philosophy in vogue at the Society, when they are stated as principles; but there is an omniscience in daily practice which the principles repudiate. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I They have given to a man—to you!—omnipotence and omniscience! Napoleon the Little It is much better that the impossibility should be frankly accepted, on the clear ground that authors of novels, and consequently their creatures, have the prerogative of omniscience. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The Secretary to the Admiralty has not yet attained to the omniscience in Naval affairs that his predecessor acquired in the course of twelve years' continuous occupancy of the post. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 You allow yourselves to abuse him as the head of a political party, but if other nations so much as question his omniscience he suddenly becomes the Head of a Sovereign State. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 29, 1920 In his omniscience he full well knows beforehand what each of his children will do. The Necessity of Atheism This omniscience of the human intellect is one of the commonest assumptions in the world. A Preface to Politics Is there anything in it, after all, but barbaric superstition, destined to fade away and disappear, in the sunrise of omniscience? Bubbles of the Foam Their omniscience was only a small portion of their other talents. Key Out of Time But the omniscience and omnipotence of God have a limit, which indeed, according to Origen, lies in the nature of the case itself. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Nor is there any escape by alleging necessity of Nature, which is merely endowing the designer of progress with omnipotence as well as omniscience. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Faith is for beings without the certainty of omniscience. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 He had not omniscience, nor infallibility; nothing but superior knowledge. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology It would be well to reflect before we grant to telepathy a power of omniscience, independent of all known laws. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research This omniscience is a part of the prodigality of moral theory that I have been discussing. A Book of Prefaces Unless these objects existed, omniscience would be meaningless and without function. The Promulgation of Universal Peace The old-fashioned university, secure in its omniscience, merely taught; the university of the coming time will, as its larger function, criticize and learn. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought What else but omniscience is equal to this? The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Deceived by absurd and antiquated theological teaching, they imagine that the most pitiable drunkard, for example, becomes a being of ideal beauty and omniscience from the day he is disincarnated. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research The slovenly and patchy omniscience of the partly educated, leads them to believe that they know enough not to believe. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View No matter how far the human intelligence may advance, it is still but a drop, while divine omniscience is the ocean. The Promulgation of Universal Peace Think of the pretensions of clairvoyance, claiming almost omniscience and omnipresence for the human spirit. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside But it needs not omniscience roughly to body-forth the contours of coming events. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Salter who shows how beautiful and ridiculous a combination can be made of the most elaborate mental cultivation and artistic sensibility and omniscience with a receptiveness and a humility extraordinary in any man. Gilbert Keith Chesterton As you have intimated, even-handed justice, inasmuch as it implies omniscience, is an attribute of God alone, but we have not been consciously unjust to you, according to our light. The Mayor of Warwick Or, in other words, man cannot escape from God, because good is the God in man; and insists on omniscience. The Victorian Age in Literature We may think fit to claim omniscience for St Paul: but he certainly does not claim it for himself. Westminster Sermons with a Preface All that words can convey is that Nirvâna is a sublime state of conscious rest in omniscience. Death—and After? He had none of the tired omniscience which comes of intellectual breeding in and in. Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is not a parade of omniscience or the madness of a note-book worm. Rudyard Kipling I became daily impressed anew with the omniscience, the incredible genius, of Dr. Fu-Manchu. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor God’s omniscience too often means, only some physical fancy of innumerable telescopic or microscopic eyes. Westminster Sermons with a Preface Nor does this presume omniscience on his part. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion He, alone of all men, seemed to have the gift of omniscience and omnipresence. The Tree of Appomattox I was really angry with O'Brien by that time, with his air of omniscience, superiority, and self-content, as if he were talking to a child or someone very credulous and weak-minded. Romance It challenges for itself the attribute of omniscience, and its fulfilment is, to those who live after it, a proof of the validity of its claim. Companion to the Bible They talked about books and opinions and men with all the omniscience of youth; but the two girls of the household held their own with them. The Quest of the Simple Life Omniscience is impossible; time is real; what had been omniscience hitherto might discover something more to-day. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Still, let us remember that without omniscience it is impossible to say whether any given season is good or bad. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 They think the American Ambassador has omniscience for a foible and oratory as a pastime. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I The authoritative forgiveness of sin is a prerogative of God alone, the exercise of which implies omniscience as well as supreme authority in heaven and earth. Companion to the Bible A mysterious presence, a mysterious power, a mysterious knowledge amounting almost to omniscience, are ascribed to Varuna. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans If He did not know, why should He, if He had previously 'emptied Himself' of omniscience? Thoughts on Religion I stopped them to give me a hand and to do as much work as I could possibly avoid doing myself while preserving an appearance of omniscience. Adventures of a Despatch Rider The conditions of their theories, so far as even omniscience can comprehend or omnipotence realize them, are indeed exactly complied with; but nevertheless, they often baffle both. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Dr. Clarke did not altogether deny omniscience to be an attribute of Christ, but he affirmed it to be a relative omniscience, communicated to him from the Father. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century He squirmed like a clumsy puppy, but I could see his pride in my omniscience. Montlivet There could be only one mind, so conceived, since there could be only one total system in the universe visible to omniscience. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays Without stepping beyond the analogy of that which is known, it is easy to people the cosmos with entities, in ascending scale, until we reach something practically indistinguishable from omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience. Lectures and Essays The eternal Son of God is represented as laying aside whatever attributes of Deity—omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, etc.—could not be manifested in an entirely human life. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking To deny these truths is to reject the Bible and to destroy the sovereign omniscience and omnipotence of God. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation For the origin of a body of Scripture possessing the quality of omniscience cannot be sought elsewhere but in omniscience itself. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 Clearly and bravely he disengages his idea of infinity from other properties usually assigned to the deity, such as power, omniscience, goodness, and tutelary functions in respect to life, or to some special human society. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays But story-tellers labor under one disadvantage which is peculiar to their profession,—the necessity of omniscience. Idolatry A Romance She was as hurt by the revelation of this vast breach in her omniscience as the bright twang of knowingness in her voice had told him she would be. The Judge Any attempt to convey an idea of the air of omniscience with which these dreary platitudes are delivered would surely result in failure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Hence, when the latter no longer exists, nothing is left for the Lord to rule, and his omniscience and ruling power have no longer any objects. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 The explanation may be all wrong in the eyes of omniscience. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 "They are ineffable,—they are omniscience,—the comprehension of the whole creative idea." Idolatry A Romance If God can not foretell future events and the instruments for their accomplishment, there can be no prophecy, and God's omniscience is impeached. The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism These deputy-gods were supposed to occupy the space between the earth and moon, and, being almost numberless and invisible, their worshippers held them in the same dread as if they possessed the attribute of omniscience. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century Was Weber right when he credited to him a knowledge near to omniscience? The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne Perhaps with a lover's subtle omniscience she imagined that it was Drusus who had some part in bringing Domitius to bay. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. It was a case where his intervention was clearly called for, since omniscience could be handled only by omniscience. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917 The omniscience of the Holy Spirit can predict the name of the instrument as readily as the event which is to be accomplished. The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism God alone had omniscience to tell what his soul needed, but something of it was embodied in home and mother. The Day of the Beast It is of such capacity that the Divine nature, looking for an expression of its own omnipotence, omniscience, and power of revelation, was content to say, "God is Light." Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work "Blood!" cried back Antonius, carried away by the frenzy of his own invective; then, shooting a lightning glance over the awe-struck Senate, he spoke as though gifted with some terrible prophetic omniscience. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Mrs. Dax, who entertained so profound a respect for her own omniscience that she disdained to arrive at a conclusion by a logical process of deduction, was "plumb certain that he had gone after 'rustlers!'" Judith of the Plains In my opinion, thou art possessed of omniscience. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 They who are conversant with all that has been said above become possessed of omniscience, and accordingly when they pass from this body no longer become subject to the control of any more physical frames. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 I am far from denying his omniscience, for I believe that he sees every sparrow that falls to the ground, and even more, that he knows the innermost thoughts of men. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 The Pitakas emphasize the omniscience and sinlessness of the Buddha but contain no trace of the idea that he is God in the Christian or Mahommedan sense. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Not content with publishing what has been written in their disfavor, with the omniscience of a romancer, he asserts their motives, and produces thoughts which they never uttered. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Those men that are freed from all doubts, that are possessed of omniscience, and that have eyes to behold all things, are never enchained by either virtue or sin. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 O thou of mighty arms, without doubt thou art possessed of omniscience.' The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 It was young Hopkins, known to every reader of the Morning Despatch for his volatility and omniscience. London River Knowledge is of five degrees of which the highest is called Kevalam or omniscience. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Of Whewell it has been pithily said, that "science was his forte, and omniscience his foible." English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Possessed of omniscience, he addressed the worm he saw in these words. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Persons conversant with the Vedas and endued with omniscience call Him the dispeller of Darkness, stainless, transcending Darkness, without attributes and endued therewith. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The absurdity of this style, which attributes omniscience to the prince and leaves to his agents nothing but the task of verification, should not be allowed to detract from the credit due to their observations. The Awakening of China We were somewhat amused by her omniscience during the first interval, but it was not until the second that she came to the priceless report of our own two selves. The Jervaise Comedy He had lived a full life, and few have so completely realized the medieval ideal of specializing in omniscience. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham The sense is that an ascetic observant of penances, in whatever stage, and a man possessed of omniscience, are regarded as equal. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 It was as the seat and bulwark of some vast intelligence; omniscience might have brooded there. A Daughter of the Snows Nothing but omniscience could suffice to answer all the questions implicitly raised.—J.G. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People He who is the "Son of God," a divine person, possessing the essential attributes of omniscience and immutability, has more to say to this church than to any of the rest. Notes on the Apocalypse So diverse and so complex are the interests to be reconciled, so interwoven and interdependent one with another, that the problem of securing a just balance is incapable of solution by anything short of omniscience. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government He was pleased to sneer at their pretensions to omniscience, and quite willing to pit himself against them. The Magician It might be truly said of one who held the alchemical conception of nature that "his foible was omniscience"; and omniscience negatives the attainment of knowledge. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry His weakness, like his son's, was a passion for omniscience. France in the Nineteenth Century By this example he would teach "all the churches, that it is he who searcheth the reins and hearts,"—demonstrating his divine omniscience.—"But unto you I say." Notes on the Apocalypse Who has omniscience to search for the scattered ones? The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) With a God with whom omnipotence and omniscience were all, evil might be eternal; but why do I say to you what has been better said elsewhere?’ Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time He invariably prefaced his inquiries with the word "Please," and he insisted upon ascribing an omniscience to his employer that it was extremely irksome to justify after a strenuous morning of enthusiastic literary effort. Mr. Britling Sees It Through M. Thiers' foible was omniscience; and to Bugeaud's amazement, amusement, and indignation he insisted on inspecting his military plans and giving his advice concerning them. France in the Nineteenth Century The righteousness of this sentence will be attested by the "opened books,"—of the divine omniscience, the human conscience, and in the case of gospel-rejecters, the Bible. Notes on the Apocalypse Far from being in any degree a suspension of consciousness as is what is known as mediumship, this power partakes of the quality of omniscience. Cosmic Consciousness She had given her all; he greedily absorbed, and now had come to believe in his own omniscience. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Yet, in another way, this miserable termination did not at all surprise her; and his secrets were petty, factual things of no essential import, which left her mystic omniscience of him unimpaired. Leonora And is not that emblem of omniscience and authority, the schoolmaster's ferule, directly of the cane family? Walking-Stick Papers The man who studies and contemplates it rises gradually towards the interior throne of omniscience. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 The omniscience of God was to me his most striking attribute. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Yet continual power produces arrogance, and the soul unchecked finally believes in its own omniscience. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women In the very hour of Christ's death, there stood, clear and distinct, before His divine omniscience, each man, woman, and child of the race. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) His omniscience, indeed, necessarily and naturally flows from his omnipresence. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant But as we know what the Crusaders meant better than they did themselves, I cannot quite understand why we do not enjoy the same valuable omniscience about the Americans. The New Jerusalem We even become vain of our squirrel's hoard of knowledge and regard increasing age itself as a school of omniscience. The Pleasures of Ignorance Their omniscience of all things human, their insight into the hiddenmost springs of men's actions appear miraculous. Best Russian Short Stories The examining magistrate's omniscience amazed him, but soon wonder was replaced by an expression of extreme distress. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories But as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know every thing in which he resides, infinite space gives room to infinite knowledge, and is, as it were, an organ to omniscience. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant KAŚYAPA.—His penances have gained for him the faculty of omniscience, and the whole scene is already present to his mind's eye. Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala "His eyes as a flame of fire" denotes omniscience; and as a searcher of all hearts he made himself known to the church of Thyatira. The Revelation Explained As nothing can happen in the world, but by the course of providence; and as all things are known unto GOD, in respect of his omniscience, the text cannot respect either of these. Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive Even now, when people talk to me of omniscience I always think of grandmother. Reveries of a Schoolmaster He seemed to anticipate Macaulay's "vice of omniscience," though he lacked Macaulay's incomparable literary virtues. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 But did you suppose that medical science, alone among all sciences, had achieved finality and omniscience? Mr. Prohack His reputation for social omniscience had been attained by the simple expedient of never being convinced. Murder in Any Degree He could not but reverence the poet's genius even while he laughed at his pretensions to omniscience, and at the daring and unscientific guesses which the poet offered as plain prose. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People But if they decline to tell I must begin on a long series of guesses, unless, in the meantime, I am endowed with omniscience. Reveries of a Schoolmaster All this is true, and these very qualities help to show his greatness, for only small minds mistake their relations with the universe, and confuse their finite powers with omniscience. George Washington, Volume II "Stamped out?" said Edward Henry, with the air of omniscience that a father is bound to assume. The Regent As God, He is possessed of omniscience to discern every thought and intent of the heart; unerring wisdom and unsullied righteousness to try every case; with omnipotent power and sovereign authority to execute every sentence. Parish Papers He could talk the "shop" of the army, the sea, the engine-room, the art-school, the charwoman; he was a perfect young Bacon of omniscience. Old and New Masters The strong personality of the spy and his seeming omniscience oppressed him again. The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand She did so with an assumption of elegant, if slightly hysterical, omniscience. Deadham Hard Thus Hume poses as a perfect judge of the possible, in a kind of omniscience. The Making of Religion She fixed on the commander of his present regiment, and that awfully mysterious personage the Adjutant-General of the army, a title which seemed to represent omniscience and omnipotence. Overland The prescience of eternal omniscience cannot alarm us; we human beings can apprehend the notion thereof in ourselves. Pictures of Sweden But genius must not put on the airs of omniscience. The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible The joke sustained so gravely through a respected lifetime was of that order of joke which is shared with omniscience. The Defendant His penances have gained for him the faculty of omniscience, and the whole scene is already present to his mind's eye. Sakoontala or the Lost Ring An Indian Drama This, I confess, suggests to me, that the aim of Jesus was not so much to enlighten the young man, as to stop his mouth, and keep up his own ostentation of omniscience. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed This was perhaps taxing versatility and omniscience over-much, and it may be taken for granted that the writer made no serious contribution to tactics, cookery, or scholarship. Studies in Literature His omniscience indeed necessarily and naturally flows from his omnipresence. The Illustrated London Reading Book In answer to the first objection, advanced psychology affirms that the subconscious mind, from which dreams arise, approaches more nearly to the omniscience of true being than the rational mind of waking experience. Four-Dimensional Vistas I have heard it said that drowning persons recall, as by a sudden omniscience, all their past lives, as soon as the water closes above them and the first shock of horror is past. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 The moderns have introduced into the idea of inspiration that of infallibility, to which either omniscience or dictation is essential. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed What omniscience is displayed in this single provision, as well as in the faculty possessed by the Cuttle-fish of reproducing its mutilated arms! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. But, as God Almighty cannot but perceive and know everything in which He resides, infinite space gives room to infinite knowledge, and is, as it were, an organ to omniscience. The Illustrated London Reading Book It is a well-known fact that these experiences increase in intensity, coherence and in a certain sort of omniscience, directly in proportion to the depth of the trance. Four-Dimensional Vistas Its general form was that of a snake, in by gone ages, the symbol of eternity and omniscience. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 His age was thirty; his profession, omniscience; the wolf at his door, poverty; the skeleton in his closet, a consuming but unrequited passion. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 The philosopher has the works of omniscience to examine; and is therefore engaged in disquisitions, to which finite intellects are utterly unequal. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II If we grant freedom to man, there is an end to the omniscience of God; for if the Divinity knows how I shall act, I must act so perforce. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Of course Shakspeare's omniscience included all natural phenomena; but the rest, great or small, associate themselves with some special aspects, and not with the daily atmosphere. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 God had ordered it otherwise, and wisely no doubt; as his omniscience foresaw the early drooping of this lovely flower. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" Thus I reach as the three pro-principles or primalities of the existent or the Godhead, omnipotence, omniscience, and infinite love. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time They gave an owl-like look to him, an air of omniscience. Trailin'! It was announced through the newspapers, whose omniscience of course no one would question, that a certain great merchant of Chicago was a mulatto. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays The tone of social omniscience which he had once found so comic was now as offensive to him as a coarse physical touch. The Custom of the Country In fact, so far as the divine attributes of omniscience and omnipresence could be vested in a faulty human creature, they were present in Jot Bascom. The Village Watch-Tower As it is, I humbly ask for information, beseech the Advertiser to uncork its omniscience. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 The very belief in His omniscience and omnipotence subverts the spirit of such a prayer. Tracks of a Rolling Stone He continued, in his best parliamentary manner, a happy blending of reproach, omniscience and pardon. The Certain Hour Mrs. Aubyn and Glennard represented to each other the augur's wink behind the Hillbridge idol: they walked together in that light of young omniscience from which fate so curiously excludes one's elders. The Touchstone You certainly have always had the tone of that sort of omniscience. Confidence He envied them their easier speech, their matter-of-fact air of omniscience, the elaborate and cultivated simplicity of their dress, their sureness and sufficiency in all that they thought and said and did. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation |
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