| 单词 | prevision |
| 例句 | I don’t have any idea why such previsions came to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z McGroarty said the WFP managed to distribute food in key locations across the northeast and central highlands of the country in prevision of the winter months. WFP director for Afghanistan warns of “tsunami of hunger’ 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The new interceptor missile, launched by Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces, successfully completed its tasks by striking an assigned target “with prevision,” the report said. SEE IT: Russia claims to test fire new hypersonic interceptor missile 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Feinstein acknowledged it included previsions that unanimously passed the Senate in May. House plans to take up another drought relief bill 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, with all her prevision of a fate upon Lily’s conduct, Sylvia did speak to her about the way in which she tolerated the familiarity of the men in the company. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z That law confirmed the prevision indicated in the passages quoted above from Social Statics, and impressed him as one of the three doctrines which are indispensable elements of the general theory of Evolution. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z They had the water as fast as prevision and Law could make it. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z With a prevision that this letter had something to do with the question of the marriage, she tore the letter open and sat gazing on it spellbound. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z He was not mistaken in his previsions, for Semele, proud of having attracted the greatest among the gods, no longer offered any resistance, and consented to their union. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Knowledge of the active speculations that went on centuries before his time on the Ionian seaboard; prevision of what secrets men would wrest from the stars centuries hence—of neither did he dream. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Persons who sneer at Spiritualism and declare it to be useless, little know how much advantage is taken of spiritual forethought and prevision by those who believe in it. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z With rare prevision he had provided an axe, with plenty of robes and wraps. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z But he had a prevision before he broke the seal of the first. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z A certain prevision, that he should win Florence, had ever been within him. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z But, perhaps, in the roll of illustrious men to whom prevision came, none have better claim to everlasting remembrance than Immanuel Kant. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z As a natural result the bearings of religion on this present life were lightly passed over, lethargic conditions ensued and the spirit of wise prevision was in large measure absent. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z He has not only never led them wrong, but he has, on the contrary, surpassed all former Irish leaders in soundness of judgment and accuracy of prevision. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z The great gray wolves he scorned; but, with perhaps a dim prevision of the day when he should be old and feeble, and driven out from the herd, he could not ignore them. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z The effect of Walter Dene's scientific prevision was even more instantaneous than he had anticipated. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z The event justified his sombre previsions, but did not cure the recklessness of the so-called patriots. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The appointment of these runners shows his wonderful prevision—that foresight which on many occasions alone saved him. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z He was not given to talking at large, but he had a gift of half-instinctive prevision as well as practical, constructive ability, and just then he felt strangely moved. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z The determining categories of the activity he is most fully conscious of, are interest, idea, prevision, purpose, and that selective activity which goes to its termination in some achieved end. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Webster did not see the future with the superhuman prevision of Calhoun; but he had observed the course of things in that stormy session. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z The Hamilton, Bermuda-based company will record the sum as a contingent liability in the fourth quarter because of previsions in Isenberg’s employment agreement, Nabors said in a regulatory filing on Oct. Nabors’s Isenberg Gets $100 Million in Cash to Leave CEO Post 2011-10-31T13:04:01Z The latter prevision happened, history once more repeating itself. England, Canada and the Great War 2011-10-20T02:00:21.577Z This latter document was a great puzzle to our friends, who, on reflecting that its bewildering categories took account of breakfast alone, had the uneasy prevision of an encyclopedic dinner-list. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Contrasted with this, finality is a term that involves the forward impulse of idea, prevision, and purpose. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z She had thought that perhaps Mr. Strong might give a cry, rush across the studio, and take her in his arms; but of this cold and almost passionless prevision of details she had not dreamed. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Why had he not trusted the prevision of her finer perceptions, half ethereal as they were? The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Death frees from woe: but I before me see In all my far prevision not a bound To all I suffer, ere that Zeus shall fall From being a king. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z Moreover, I’ve neither eloped, nor been insulted, nor been talked about, nor—so far as I know—deteriorated in manners or character; so that she’s wrong in all her previsions. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Anything that is capable of any sort of foretaste has in it a principle of prevision, selection, choice, and purpose. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z In fact, the previsions of the sergeant seemed to be coming true. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Fortunately the previsions of the young officer and her own fear proved groundless. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Idly he looked at the table of contents: no prevision, no suspicion even, of the coming cataclysm! The Red Cross Barge 2011-09-05T02:00:20.603Z “Oh, oh!” she sighed, with the prevision of long hours of loneliness for herself. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z In prevision of this, people took timely refuge in safe places. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z For this is the dream, the ideal, the designate plan, So slow of fulfilment, so sure,—God's prevision of man. Poems 2011-08-16T02:00:47.467Z Since volitions are the outcome of desires, a prevision of volitions contrary to desires could not be a true one. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z He had seen strong men fail; he knew what failure meant; and he could guess the slackening of his own great powers and prevision the end of this slackening. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z But when his sister came in afterwards alone, he cut her words short; through all her plaintive farewell complainings there was a manifestly cheerful prevision of relief when he should be gone. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z Those who like may trace in this a certain prevision, a designed fashioning of the garb of the word to suit it for that oral transmission on which, at one period, its preservation would depend. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z Men acquire an almost instinctive prevision of danger in the eternal shadow of the African bush. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z It must be remembered that the supposed prevision would not create the future any more than memory creates the past. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z No danger deterred him, but in enterprises requiring prevision of contingencies, he was inadequate. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z No accumulation of facts can effect prevision until the facts are made the basis of reasonings. The Principles Of Secularism 2011-07-22T02:00:17.390Z Nothing flashed or glowed or shone about her, and yet it was with a prevision of the truth that he said,— "I was here once before, ma'am." The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z And he poured forth his distress in long and poignant letters, in which could be read in every line the loss of hope and the sure prevision of the now inevitable end. Bastien Lepage 2011-06-28T02:00:12.150Z A prevision rushed over him that the messenger of evil had come. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Love is not blind in this case, Alice dear, I avouch it; but it has the gift of prevision also. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z All science," says M. Comte, "has prevision for its end, an axiom which separates science from erudition, which relates to events of the past without any regard to the future. The Principles Of Secularism 2011-07-22T02:00:17.390Z All really fundamental movements are the results of long-continued discussion and investigation, but it requires a great generalizer and organizer, and one possessed of prevision, to concrete scattered facts into powerful national movements. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z But hitherto nothing has happened to justify the previsions of either lady on this score. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z All the undefined fear George, not a minute ago, had felt inclined to treat as groundless, was indeed but a prevision of the terrible reality. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Lord Mayo thought that it would be vain to ask the Local Governments to set their houses in order, if they could point to confusion or want of prevision in his own. The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India 2011-04-11T02:00:13.067Z This seems to indicate both purpose and prevision on his part. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Napier struggled with a vivid prevision of Nan coming back to find that ambiguous figure—Grindley—at the door. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z "But we who are less keen-sighted," objected the Duke, "we confess the weakness of our prevision; we reject your conclusions." The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Could it be that a prevision of what was really to take place was cast upon him?—a mysterious foreshadowing of the future? Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Like them I had no prevision as to where I was going or what was to become of me. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z “One would almost think you had some prevision of the fact.” The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z Napier knew, looking back, that he had no faintest prevision of the difference that the girl's going or her staying would make, even to Julian. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Examples are the reading for pastime of love stories before falling asleep with the prevision that this may possibly bring on pollution during sleep. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z Again I recalled our bizarre visit to Bryanston Square; our reception by my Uncle Theodore, his "Fear nothing" and his still more curious prevision of that which was to come to pass. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Just as the marvels of the old fairy-tales were an instinctive prevision of the miracles of modern science, so this idea of Destiny seems to me an instinctive anticipation of the formulas of modern science. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z With this greater moderation is apt to be associated a more accurate prevision, which succeeds in a more correct adjustment of present investment to future needs. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z If, contrary to our previsions, any disturbance should occur, have the goodness to let me know. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z That alternative had not figured in my prevision of pathetic closes. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z From that day, Maguennoc grew more and more important and more and more sure of the truth of his previsions. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z The ways of volcanoes are past the previsions of men. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Patrick Henry, with the prevision of a prophet, was, as we have seen, bitterly opposed to the adoption of the Constitution. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z "There are pictures in our souls which seem to be recollections, but in fact are previsions." The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z How good the lesson of forethought, of prevision of coming needs in this: "The tiles which protect thee in the wet season were fabricated in the dry." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources In Seneca’s most enraptured previsions of immortality, the very exuberance of the rhetoric seems to be the expression of intense personal feeling. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius I had a prevision that day that Elsie and I had better make the most of our time during this summer. Deep Moat Grange If—as prevision showed her—she was to know him as unfit for what she had given, the giving would cease to be her happiness. Beggars on Horseback Well, I went, and am most thankful for my prejudice, my disinclination, my prevision of boredom. The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France The Abb� Pr�vost that morning had expressed for him in art the quintessence of what he knew with sharp prevision love for him would mean. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Still less had he any prevision of his great destiny in the third and fourth centuries. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Meanwhile the seductive prevision of material joys that had risen before him at the studio at that moment of physical weakness was being literally realised, almost comically so. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel Ideas lose their power to guide conduct by prevision of the future,254 and truth and error consequently lose their significance, save perhaps as manifestations of cerebral operations. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude For through that great act of a statesman's prevision the Russian Empire experienced a resurrection from the dead. Stand Up, Ye Dead The comparative friendliness induced by Dalroy’s prevision as a caterer vanished at once. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 From a very early age she gave signs of possessing extraordinary musical talent, and this her father, perhaps with some strange prevision of the future, fostered with every care. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Gifted with prevision beyond most, Mr. Long’s mind misgave him that these young men would be baffled in their pleasing expectations. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus If so, Marinelli, you have as little idea of the wickedness of man as you have of prevision. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Yet even now we seem at moments to escape from time in what we call prevision, and from place when we see distant things in a dream and in concurrent dreams. Per Amica Silentia Lunae The young couple were to be accompanied by Mrs. Brigstock, and with a prevision of how fiercely they would be watched Fleda became conscious, before the party arrived, of an amused, diplomatic pity for them. The Spoils of Poynton Some prevision of this may be in the minds of women when they endeavor to give themselves a bit of training for direct money-earning business. The American Country Girl Alas! the first glance brought a prevision of trouble; she saw before her the stooping form, the thin, cadaverous face of the “Hermit,” occupant of Number 9. The Daughters of a Genius As is well known, the premise of this prevision is in the actual conditions of present capitalist production. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History Ah! how short-sighted is human wisdom, how deceitful the previsions of mortal man, how sterile the agitations of republics and monarchs! Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty And in truth, as poor Mrs. Gereth inquired, how could he possibly have had a prevision—he who turned his eyes instinctively from everything repulsive—of anything so abnormal as a Waterbath Brigstock? The Spoils of Poynton The letters contain an enormous amount of well-digested information, and display great critical acumen, amounting in some cases almost to prevision. Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century We were sufficiently proud of our seafaring to understand a certain merit in this apparent lack of prevision: we took it as in compliment to the efficiency and resource with which our sea-trade was credited. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The foresight indicated by the Manifesto was not chronological, it was not a prophecy nor a promise, but a morphological prevision. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History Mrs. Patterson, with a maternal prevision of misfortune, wishing to prevent their meeting, carried her daughter to her country place, where they remained until November. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. If the sequel was to justify Owen's prevision of Mrs. Brigstock's action upon her daughter, this action was at the end of a week as much a mystery as ever. The Spoils of Poynton She could not understand how the two women, unobserved by them, had slipped in at the open gate; Odalie was able to smile faintly at a prevision of Sandy's amazement at his own negligence. The Story of Old Fort Loudon Short, therefore, of certain prevision of the future, we want complete agreement as to the degree of probability of every future event: and for that matter of every past event as well. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Nothing is extant to show that at so early a date as this, or even for some considerable while after, any of Keats’s immediate friends shared the ominous prevision of Coleridge. Life of John Keats It is true he thought himself quite a man, but the manhood of a boy is only a tiny masquerade,—a fantastic, dreamy prevision of real manhood. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine We will not criticize these, perhaps illusory, ideas and previsions of Merezhkovsky. Contemporary Russian Novelists It is, indeed, a remarkable instance of scientific prevision. Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Nor were there wanting geologists with similar previsions in Germany and Switzerland. The Coming of Evolution The Story of a Great Revolution in Science The following year, that is 1654, the English public received, according to Dorothy's previsions, the first instalment of the most noticeable heroical romance composed in their language. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Here was one of my previsions justified: James More was once again at liberty. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) However paradoxical such a prevision may seem at first, it has a fundamental element of truth. Contemporary Russian Novelists The prevision of my sweet Son your ways home redress, And ghostly reward you for your present! Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Guilty England would thus be stabbed in the most delicate quarters; the moment had, indeed, been well selected; and M’Guire, with a radiant prevision of the event, drew merrily nearer. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) How little did they know a century ago, despite Hutton's clear prevision, of these marvellous slow revolutions through which, as Lyell taught us, the earth's crust had been built up! A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science We generally have a mental image beforehand of a place we think of going to, and I supposed I had a tolerably vivid prevision of Biarritz. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 It has no prevision of the morrow—makes no provision for the winter. The Broom-Squire Mr. Clews tells us that the “Future” of Wall Street is a sealed book; and yet we may allow that “there is such a thing as an accurate prevision of events.” The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 That wit, the truth was, had broken down a little at the sharp prevision that once at his door they would have to hang back. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II These pathetic zealots, clinging desperately to the past, had a deeper instinct, a truer prevision of the future, than this cultured philosopher. Dreamers of the Ghetto She herself remembered her feeling of annoyance, how clearly she foresaw an interrupted reverie and a hampered Sunday—and also how easily he had falsified her prevision. Love and Lucy Mendoza felt a prevision of his fate; being a musician he knew of music's woes and warnings. Melomaniacs He said of Columbus: "His genius and lofty enthusiasm, his ardent and justified previsions, mark the great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race." Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose Her prevision, in fine, of just where she should catch him furnished the light of that judgment in which we describe her as daring to indulge. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 A Shelley "beats in the air his luminous wings in vain"; our Jewish dreamer dreams along the lines of life; his dream but discounts the future, his prophecy is merely fore-speaking, his vision prevision. Dreamers of the Ghetto In this we find a remarkable prevision of many of the principles which were afterward to be warmly advocated and disputed during the growth of the idea of evolution. The Meaning of Evolution There may still be some people who deny the possibility of prevision, but such denial simply shows their ignorance of the evidence on the subject. Clairvoyance It would appear also that this significance is not always a mere chance coincidence, but is intended, sometimes, to carry the evidence of an overruling prevision. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose I was very miserable myself; and a sense of coming loss and disaster was driven firmly into my mind and fixed there—a heavy prevision of inevitable sorrow and pain overhung my mind. The First Violin A Novel I couldn't account for it; perhaps it was prevision. Miss Grantley's Girls And the Stories She Told Them On the part of none of them was there any prevision of the strange events the night would bring forth. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards In all these cases the prevision achieved its result, but the books are full of stories of warnings neglected or scouted, and of the disaster that consequently followed. Clairvoyance And yet as it was, it seemed so imperfect, and in some ways so unsatisfactory; so fortuitous in certain respects, so wanting in prevision, so amazingly deliberate. Beside Still Waters But China, if my prevision be correct, is going to do nothing of the kind. The Empire of the East "It is someone coming to the door," said Elinor, rising up with that sudden prevision of trouble which is so seldom deceived. The Marriage of Elinor What is the relation of prevision to progress? Introduction to the Science of Sociology First of all, they may be, as apparently in the Westphalian case above mentioned, simply instances of prevision on a gigantic scale—by whom arranged, and for what purpose, it is not easy to divine. Clairvoyance In this moment of clear vision he was permitted a prevision of Helen struggling with the rebellious critics. The Light of the Star A Novel The framers of that Constitution seem to have been endowed with an abnormal amount of prevision. The Empire of the East In the interval of time that had passed since Christmas Sally had contrived to "dismiss from her mind" Colonel Lund's previsions about her mother and Mr. Fenwick. Somehow Good Social phenomena: causes of, 17; as susceptible of prevision, 1. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Sometimes the prevision refers to an event of distinct importance to the seer, and so justifies the action of the Ego in taking the trouble to impress it. Clairvoyance The business world is equally demoralised by industrial speculation, careful prevision cannot reckon upon receiving its due return, and speculation of the purest gambling type is thereby encouraged. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production Bessel's prevision was destined to be still more triumphantly vindicated. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Her decision against this course was always emphasized by—may even have been unconsciously due to—her prevision of the difficulty of the communication to Sally. Somehow Good We have to contemplate social phenomena as susceptible of prevision, like all other classes, within the limits of exactness compatible with their higher complexity. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Yet they are not, as we envisage them, the fact to which they point, but a substitute for or representative of that—an anticipation of or prevision of it, a symbol of a fact. Progress and History It is now clear that his instinct was sure, his prevision acute. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 Is it not subject to regular laws, and do we not actually obtain prevision of its phenomena? Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The previsions of the clerk who resigned were realized. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental As for the promises his wife had extracted, he was repenting his rashness as heartily as she was commending her prevision. Jonah and Co. Luke here emphasizes the divine prevision and at the same time the human courage of our Lord. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition Are not simple conception and prevision subjective ends pure and simple? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The great vision of the glory that shall be, not in one sudden millennium, but slowly advancing toward joys of life which we can no more prevision than the aboriginal medicine-man could imagine the X-ray! The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life So far as Gordon's military skill and prevision could arrange for their safety, he did so, and with success. The Life of Gordon, Volume II Now, more than ever, he gave the impression of exaggerated watchfulness, as if he attempted prevision of the detective's questions. No Clue A Mystery Story It may be after all only an unconscious and inspired inference from the present, on an enlarged and exceptional scale; and it is a matter for straightforward investigation whether such prevision ever occurs. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' Again, when she endows Ulysses with forecast in an emergency, it is only another statement for his mental prevision. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary I have kept this little slip, not with the least idea, not with the faintest prevision, that I should ever have this need of it. Her Mother's Secret In just this does the prevision of the future by common sense consist. Creative Evolution Ay—a prevision of his staying to dinner made me stay and dine with the --th mess. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster In the above chapter I must not be understood as pretending to settle the thorny question of a reconciliation between freedom of choice and pre-determination or prevision. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' So the curious prevision of the future which had come over them all at 'Uncle Marmy's gates' was actually fulfilled. Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls In giving this reply the great navigator had no prevision of his fate, or of the difficulty his fellow-countrymen would have in finding his remains. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century This remarkable prevision of Mr. Seward has stamped its effect on our present and future destiny and relations with England, Canada, Russia and perhaps all the nations of the Orient. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier Certainly, if Phœbe had had any prevision of her present state of mind, she never would have bought that chiffonier. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster "Assyria has fallen," said Scipio, as he looked with eyes of prevision on the devouring flames. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality His acute prevision of events and his penetrating insight into character enabled him to create the circumstances and to mould the men whose combination was necessary to his aims. Horace For that matter, history contains many instances of this kind, as, for instance, the prophecy of Caesar's death, and its further prevision by his wife. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers The party had found the four, but his prevision had not failed him. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand The speedy arrival of the Emperor baffled all my previsions. Hortense Makers of History Series It is evidently a sort of duplicate document, made in the prevision that the outer one might be injured, when the inner record would remain. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria These results were clearly foreseen before they were realised, so that the germ theory fulfils the test of every true theory, that test being the power of prevision. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 It is worth while to cite here a still more pointed example of the want of prevision, so common and so intelligible at that time. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet It was but a moment that expanded itself in that prevision. Romola It was with a prevision of something out of the ordinary, therefore, that I received through Alice a request from Josie for a private interview with me. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Nor had he a more accurate prevision of the method of modern science. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 With this prevision, as shall subsequently be shown, the existence of the human race itself is inseparably connected. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 For a moment Clarice’s mental eyes ran forward, over what would most likely, according to human prevision, have been the course of Rosie’s after life. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him No celerity could compensate for want of prevision on the part of the authorities at Washington. Union and Democracy The war may be long; difficulties may reach us of which we had no prevision at the start; but we shall keep on until the end. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 He sees the truth, he feels the divine reality; and the certainty and the gladness are such that not even the prevision of his own relapse into dimmer perception can depress him. The Chief End of Man Mayer's prevision has been justified by events, for the scientific world is now upon his side. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 And Empedocles proceeds to the great evolutionary deduction, the clear prevision of Darwin’s philosophy, that fit and unfit arise alike, but that what is fit to survive does survive and what is unfit perishes. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The action of the sky on the earth is undeniable, and, the sidereal influences once admitted, all previsions based on them are legitimate. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Perhaps each had some vague prevision of the communication he was about to make. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn She looked at me woefully sad, and I had a queer, heartrending prevision I would never see her more. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Does God forbid all care and all prevision? Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) On the same principle they formed some large lockers aft, and another amidships, in which their heavier previsions could be stored. The Three Admirals Nor is this the direst of his previsions. The Lone Ranche But even as he spoke Hilliard had a prevision of the truth. Pixie O'Shaughnessy The history of the university through its precarious existence of half a century amply justifies Mr. Gallatin's previsions and retirement. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII The later revolt of the Puritans against the king-worship which Cromwell established proved the justice of the prevision which forced More in the spring of 1532 to resign the post of Chancellor. History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 The only explanation seems to be that he wished to record his prevision as regards Roman Catholicism proving the main rock upon which the King might come to grief, as he afterwards did. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees The leaden chains of use bind many an ugly unsuspected prisoner in the soul; and when the habit of their lives has been sundered, the most immaculate are capable of antics beyond prevision. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre "Or has my spirit a divine prevision Of vast vague passions stored in days to be When some strong souls shall conquer their division And two shall be as one eternally." Man and Maid The preceding incidents simply record a prevision of places subsequently visited. Real Ghost Stories He had had no prevision of the panic of superstition that he had raised in the minds of these simple people; for the ignorant mountaineer is a devout believer in signs and warnings. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories The ostentatious partiality with which he introduced her into society produced results which went beyond his previsions. Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands "Wonder if you have run across the Maurices in Zermatt," wrote Max Richardson, with no faintest prevision of the circumstances in which the thoughtless lines would be read by his friend. The Great Amulet Nick had a prevision of the spirit in which his mother at least would now receive hollow compliments from Beauclere. The Tragic Muse Jack Haydon knew nothing of this; yet he paused for a moment as some strange prevision seized upon him and held him in its grip. Jack Haydon's Quest It can be abundantly shown that increasing prevision or provision marks the ascent of organic Nature; that as life ascends the present is more and more dedicated to the future. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles She did not enter into the troubled prevision of Gladys, who had been furtively watching a strange absorption that was growing in Lillian's manner, a fevered light in her eyes. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee This superficially ingenuous proposal to walk around the colleges with Mr. Ransom had really another colour; it deepened the ambiguity of her position, by reason of a prevision which I shall presently mention. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) Some weeks later she explained to Verena how definite this prevision had been, how it had filled her all day with a nervous agitation so violent as to be painful. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) He becomes possessed of a greater power in prophecy and prevision, and in this state enters the class of personages known as the Jĕs´sakkīd´, or jugglers. The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 On land and water, the trouble will begin and only by the closest thought and prevision will we find ourselves in a position to cope with it. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I But to receive such a good piece of poetry as veritable prevision is surely a puerile error which a mature mind in the nineteenth century should be ashamed to commit. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Ransom stood there, smiling at her; the dusky glow in his eyes expressed a softness representing no prevision of such laurels, but which testified none the less to Verena's influence. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) He foresaw the moment when the explosion would take place, and we know that his previsions were pretty correct. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" These previsions almost at once entered upon their fulfilment. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 By degrees and degrees he changes his opinion of the life of freedom; it is most unlike his prevision of it, and at last his purpose is actually inverted. The Craft of Fiction The generalizations of our philosophy grow wider, the gropings of our sympathetic faith become vaster, the retrospection and the prevision of our science keener and longer and more inclusive, every generation. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life It had been only this prevision that sustained her when she gave Mr. Ransom their number. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) "Then," said I, after calculating for some for some minutes, "if your previsions are right, we are at this moment exactly under the Mediterranean itself." A Journey to the Centre of the Earth One strange fact in the case was her inexplicable aversion to water�-either a crude prevision of her coming fate, or, in the mysterious operations of delirious reasoning, the actual cause of it. Alec Forbes of Howglen He retained a superstitious belief in magic, and never soared above his age with the vision of great truths and prevision of the things to come. Lectures on Modern history The actual distribution of instinct upsets our most reasonable previsions. Social Life in the Insect World In prevision of his present enterprise, Lord Exmouth before leaving the Mediterranean had despatched a light cruiser to Algiers, on a casual visit similar to those continually made by ships of war to foreign ports. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy What memories of the happy past, what previsions of the horrible future, now filled my brain! A Journey to the Centre of the Earth It had led to the Agadir business in the previous summer, and the absence of wise prevision was still apparent. Before the War An instance of a seemingly immediate belief would be a prophetic prevision of a coming disaster, or a man's unreasoned persuasion as to his own powers of performing a difficult task. Illusions A Psychological Study The prevision of Washington was shortly realized, and a cloud of red warriors descended on the border settlements, carrying murder, rapine, and ruin before them. With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent She was also always conscious of the prettiness of her appearance, and she loved herself for it with that love which brings previsions of unknown joys of the future. By the Light of the Soul A Novel There was little of that masterly prevision of effect in his mind which is one of the attributes of the higher imagination. Great Italian and French Composers In addition to her natural excitement and concern for the poor lost girl, Gladys was also possessed by a strange prevision that that day was to be a turning-point in her history. The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow All such previsions are supposed to be formed by a process of inference from personal experience, including the trustworthiness of testimony. Illusions A Psychological Study Needless to add that, in our case, such a prevision is as good as superfluous, but we feel bound to act up to our principles! The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher The Stoics already derived from the decrees of God the prevision of events. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil At this stage of their previsions Mrs. Musgrave intervened, and Bessie became conscious that the shades of evening were stealing over the landscape. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax With a prevision that something was wrong, he said a word of adieu to Mrs. Ashton, went down, and met the man outside. Elster's Folly Though not following the technique of Descartes, the physics of our own day realises his ideal, and traces in nature a mathematical dynamism, perfectly sufficient for exact prevision and mechanical art. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays There they met the pope, who, having a prevision of their subsequent martyrdom, resigned the papacy, much against the will of the Church and for reasons which are not too clear. A Wanderer in Venice Thus that which is contingent and free remains no less so under the decrees of God than under his prevision. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil And here, as another aspect of the same fact, we may further observe that as we pass from qualitative to quantitative prevision, we pass from inductive science to deductive science. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library The news turned her cheeks blue and yellow; a prevision rushing over her that if he and Lord Hartledon met there might be no wedding after all. Elster's Folly The little group were still together; mystic thoughts and previsions were upon them. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy What so baffles our prevision is the shifting part played by the margin and focus—in fact, by each element by itself of the margin or focus—in calling up the next ideas. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals Thus neither futurition in itself, certain as it is, nor the infallible prevision of God, nor the predetermination either of causes or of God's decrees destroys this contingency and this freedom. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil If, once more, we say that science is exact prevision, we still fail to establish the supposed difference. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Was it an uncomfortable prevision of what was coming that caused Mr. Carr not to answer her? Elster's Folly There were no less than ten females, endowed with the gift of prevision, and held in high repute, to whom the name of Sibyl was given. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood And the Dutch could not get supplies from there, which would take away from them much of the previsions with which they are supported. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. That is acknowledged in respect of futurition and prevision, as has already been set forth. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil The difference, then, is not in the fundamental character of the mental acts; or in the correctness of the previsions accomplished by them; but in the complexity of the processes required to achieve the previsions. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library As though a prevision had been upon her of the future, she remained passively in his arms sobbing hysterically, and suffering his kisses; not drawing away from him in maiden modesty, as was her wont. Elster's Folly The specific attribute by which it is distinguished from the latter is quantitative prevision. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 The birds pick up feathers, hair, twigs; but no bird provides such things by deliberate prevision and co-operation with nature. The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers Thus their prevision and predetermination is not absolute, but it presupposes will: if it is certain that one will do them, it is no less certain that one will will to do them. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Science has been supplying art with truer generalisations and more completely quantitative previsions. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library A strangely grave shade, looking almost like a prevision of evil, arose to Dr. Ashton's face. Elster's Folly Besides the commonest previsions of every-day life, the ancients knew scarcely anything either of chemistry or physics, except that amber possessed attractive properties. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 He had previsions of future success, as every very intelligent lad must have; but at present his ambition took no very lofty flights. Ishmael Or, In the Depths That is involved in prevision and predetermination, and forms the reason thereof. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil And we shall be less surprised, on remembering that the only things involved in these previsions were time and number; and that the time was in a manner self-numbered. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library The prevision of a philosophic statesman is grounded on the knowledge of the past and on the analysis of existing tendencies. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Doubtless she conceived that by taunting him, at this safe hour, with this prevision of her success, she helped the estrangement which she felt necessary to her enjoyment of her expected rewards. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. "Then why, why, do you torture yourself and me with these dark previsions?" Ishmael Or, In the Depths Was it the sudden fear that some other dreamer might be before him, or a subconscious prevision of what actually awaited him, that caused him to quicken his steps as he neared the arbour? The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man Let us now go on to observe how, out of the notions of equality and number, as arrived at in the manner described, there gradually arose the elements of quantitative prevision. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library In the absence of such a discussion, and the prevision of his going to the show, you couldn't account for young Craig's having caught the point instantly like that. The Real Adventure Eph was a tragedy over my taking out Redwheels, and I am glad that neither he nor I could prevision the plight the shiny new runabout would be in before it was many hours older. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance The general results are quite in accord with the previsions of M. Duhem. The New Physics and Its Evolution He had no prevision that here he was to meet with the greatest disappointment of his life. Beethoven We mean that all quantitative prevision is reached deductively; and that induction can achieve only qualitative prevision. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library It is a notorious fact that the course of human history has been largely without prevision or direction. Sex and Society "I seem to feel a kindred spirit in him, but I don't think his prevision about not seeing us again is right, though his advice to look out for Tandakora is certainly worth following." The Hunters of the Hills The rôle of prophet is not a scientific one, and the most firmly established previsions of to-day may be overthrown by the reality of to-morrow. The New Physics and Its Evolution Beethoven seemed to have some prevision that only a few more years would be allotted him for work; when he began on the mass his inspiration was like a river that had broken its bounds. Beethoven And, on the other hand, the highest quantitative prevision does not reach the exact truth, but only a very near approximation to it. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Fortunately for the peace of mind of the Sixteenth Louis, he had no gift of prevision! The Story of Versailles Fionnuala was sorely unwilling to go with her on that journey, for she had a misgiving, and a prevision of treachery and of kin-slaying against her in the mind of Aoife. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland An experiment enabled this prevision to be verified. The New Physics and Its Evolution "As the language of passion resenting death and this life's woeful incompleteness? or as a prevision of the soul in a moment of intensest life?" Robert Browning This, as far as it goes, consists in previsions. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library He needed only the prompt and vigorous support that intelligent prevision and co-operation would have given, to make his lodgement safe and his victory certain. Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War The now familiar phenomenon of clairvoyant prevision, amply furnishing a natural explanation of the prophetic utterance without any unscientific theory of miracle, the laugh of certain Orientalists seems uncalled for. Five Years of Theosophy The experiments of Professor Kaufmann, therefore, confirm the previsions of Max Abraham's theory: the mass depends on the velocity, and increases indefinitely in proportion as this velocity approaches that of light. The New Physics and Its Evolution For this cause the name chosen to describe it is not prevision, but providence, because, since utterly removed in nature from things mean and trivial, its outlook embraces all things as from some lofty height. The Consolation of Philosophy Now this method of calculating eclipses by means of a recurring cycle,—the Saros as they called it—is a more complex case of prevision by means of coincidence of measures. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library They were in nearly every case the direct result of defective staff arrangements and the lack of proper prevision. Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War It was the clear prevision of this inevitable issue that made of St. Bernard not only an implacable opponent of Abélard but of the whole system of Scholasticism as well. Historia Calamitatum In other words, Passion obfuscates man's prevision; it does not obfuscate a woman's. Hints for Lovers But he had a prevision that it was going to matter. If Winter Comes We know that the lever and the inclined plane were employed during this period: implying that there was a qualitative prevision of their effects, though not a quantitative one. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library He had for some time had his own shrewd previsions, and he was aware of a strong inner belief that his defeat was but temporary. The Marriage of William Ashe By this careful prevision had Lincoln pledged himself to give to his successor that unselfish and patriotic assistance of which he himself had stood so sorely in need. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him Greeting Bharata kindly, therefore, he soon discovers his previsions are correct, for the young prince, after announcing his father's death, implores Rama to return and reign over Oude. The Book of the Epic This was no prevision of an emancipation proclamation; but it was assertion of the value of a higher "moral issue." Great Britain and the American Civil War And here let us not omit to notice that even in these vaguest of quantitative previsions, the conception of equality of relations is also involved. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library The parents of Mr. Belloc, with a happy prevision, anticipated by some decades the entente cordiale, and their brilliant son felicitously manifests in his own person many of the admirable qualities of both races. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson She had felt certain somehow, at sight of Marcella, that she should say or do something untoward, and she had promptly justified her own prevision. Marcella The progress of civilization is in the direction of greater foresight, of greater prevention, of a diminished need for struggling with the reckless lack of prevision. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society He was visited with a fearful constraint, a chivalrous wish not to hurt her feelings, and a sharp prevision of the danger of offending her. The Fortieth Door Weights imply scales, of which we have also mention; and scales involve the primary theorem of mechanics in its least complicated form—involve not a qualitative but a quantitative prevision of mechanical effects. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library All else grows tame, the sky's one blue, The one long languish of the rose, But these, beyond prevision new, Shall charm and startle to the close. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell What a subtle prevision of modulations to be effected by the careless scratch of his nail or the whip of a knife's edge! Promenades of an Impressionist How many an enthusiast has justified an extravagant purchase by a flattering prevision of profits accruing to his widow and orphans? The Collectors It occurred, however, to Drake that the mistake might have been purposely made from a prevision of the awkwardness of the meeting. The Philanderers But supposition aside, it is clear that the habitual recognition of these claims in their laws implied some prevision of social phenomena. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library In passing, it may be remarked that McClellan's prevision that the ultimate arbitrament of the struggle must occur in Virginia was correct. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I And indeed one glance at Charlie's preoccupied features confirmed his prevision. Mr. Prohack Just as the marvels of the old fairy-tales were an instinctive prevision of the miracles of modern science, so this idea of destiny seems to me an instinctive anticipation of the formulas of modern science. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People The day after their departure, they were followed by a great number of slaves, dromedaries, and heiries laden with previsions. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa Or, to reduce the proposition to its most definite form—undeveloped science is qualitative prevision: developed science is quantitative prevision. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Prophecy, to all but the anointed, is dangerous and uncertain, but even so, the author cannot forbear attempting to prevision the architecture likely to arise from the wrecks and sediment left by the war. Architecture and Democracy Of course, if this “prevision” could be verified in detail, we should come very near to dreams of the future fulfilled. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts Certainly, good student, but still clairvoyance plays an important part even in this elementary form of prevision and future-seeing. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers These previsions were fully justified, for the Cid, on noticing that a less exalted seat had been prepared for Don Sancho than for the King of France, became so violent that the Pope excommunicated him. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art There is not only qualitative but quantitative prevision. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Science advances facing backward, so what prevision can it have of a miraculous and divinely inspired future—or for the matter of that, of any future at all? Architecture and Democracy There is need for provident prevision, For watchful eye, and for most wary hand. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890 There may be still some people who deny the possibility of prevision, but such denial simply shows their ignorance of the evidence on the subject. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers These previsions were soon verified, and in the bloody encounter which ensued, Hagen came off victor, with the loss of but four men, while the enemy left more than one hundred dead upon the field. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art Thus the extent to which our quantitative previsions have been carried in any direction, indicates the depth to which our knowledge reaches in that direction. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library He had courage, wit, insight, instinct, prevision, and a thorough persuasion that he perfectly understood the materials he had to work upon and the tools within his reach. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays Your life, like your body, is too highly organized, too sensitive, too knit together by memories and prevision for you to leave behind you anything that has really entered into your life. Sex and Common-Sense Think over this a little, and let the idea sink into your mind—it may help you to understand something concerning the mystery of future-time clairvoyance, prevision, or second-sight. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers Useless wishes, belied in advance by the previsions of M. Turgot himself. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 In each case we shall see, as before, how the idea of equality underlies all quantitative prevision; and in what simple forms this idea is first applied. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Some of his advisers, with more distrust and more prevision, pressed him to order the arrest of so dangerous a man, notwithstanding his protestations; but Francis refused. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 The whole subject bristles with difficulties, not the least of which is that even to conceive of such a thing as prevision all our old ideas about time must be recast. Four-Dimensional Vistas As the future may be discerned in this reflected picture, by the clairvoyant mind, we see how future-seeing, prevision, and second-sight may be explained scientifically. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers Now, looking back upon what has since happened, which view shows the greater wisdom and prevision? Peace Theories and the Balkan War We came about the bend in the stream and, at sight of the city before us, were reminded of the keen prevision of its colonial founder. Virginia: the Old Dominion He was invaded by a prevision of unendurable calamity. Love and Mr. Lewisham Then, if we conceive of clairvoyance as a transcending by consciousness of our three-dimensional space, prevision and post-vision would be logically possible as corresponding to the positive and negative of the fourth dimension. Four-Dimensional Vistas In the following chapter I shall present to your consideration some very remarkable cases of future-time clairvoyance, prevision, or second-sight; some of these are historical cases, and all are vouched for by the best authorities. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers The event proved the justice of his previsions. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3 My previsions justified themselves, for in the course of the afternoon we made the entrance to the harbor, and ran in before such a sea as I never saw in those waters before. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II This was in prevision of the insurrection which Mazzini had determined for the spring of 1853, and with regard to which there were grave dissensions between the two chiefs. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I This would correspond to the seeing of something before it "happened," and would represent the positive aspect of clairvoyance in time—prevision. Four-Dimensional Vistas Just as meditation and reverie about past times and things tend to develop past-time clairvoyance, so will meditation and reverie about future time and things tend to develop prevision and the seeing of future things. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers Here they soon found how just were the General's previsions. The Rome Express But nothing else came at once to the surface to falsify her prevision. Mary Wollaston Of the course which physical science really followed he had no prevision. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 The perception of a past event as in process of occurring, or the prevision of something which comes to pass later. Four-Dimensional Vistas In this class of clairvoyant phenomena naturally fall all genuine cases of prophecy, prevision, foretelling, second-sight, etc. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers It will do them more good than all your prevision and all my experience. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." The dreadful instinctive certainty that she loved the man she had so nearly killed, took possession of him in a dark prevision of terror. Taquisara It seems to me that we cannot reasonably attribute the prevision of the future and mental sight to a nervous action of the brain. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition Clairvoyance, in its time aspect, whether spontaneous, hypnotically induced, or self-induced, is susceptible of classification as post-vision, present vision, and prevision. Four-Dimensional Vistas For that matter, history contains many instances of this kind: the prophecy of Caesar's death, and its further prevision by his wife, for instance. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers Thereafter will arises; For no one starts to do a thing, before The intellect previsions what it wills; And what it there pre-visioneth depends On what that image is. On the Nature of Things All that he learned deepened the sad impression he had formed, and he saw with unerring prevision the appalling retribution that was at hand. Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch Nothing flashed or glowed or shone about her, and yet it was with a prevision of the truth that he said, 'I was here once before, ma'am.' The Princess and Curdie The extraordinary value, for explanation and prevision, of those mathematical and mechanical modes of conception which science uses, was a result that could not possibly have been expected in advance. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature A celebrated historical instance of remarkable second-sight and prevision, is that of Cazotte, whose wonderful prediction and its literal fulfilment are matters of French history. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers Her imagination had darted backward in conjectures, and forward in previsions, of what this revealed fatherhood implied; and there were words in Godfrey's last speech which helped to make the previsions especially definite. Silas Marner The doctor's first feeling was a sense of his exaggerated prevision in having brought appliances for a serious case; the next, something more curious. The Woodlanders Besides, with that prevision given to an author, I am strongly of opinion that something will happen before long. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance The education accorded the present generation justifies the most gloomy previsions. The Crowd; study of the popular mind This celebrated instance of highly advanced future-time clairvoyance, or prevision, has never been equalled. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers Before long, too, there would be more; he knew the book was still selling far beyond the publisher's previsions. The Touchstone This latter document was a great puzzle to our friends, who, on reflecting that its bewildering categories had relation to breakfast alone, had an uneasy prevision of an encyclopedic dinner list. An International Episode That would be in a couple of hours, at the end of which—I had the acute prevision—my little pupils would play at innocent wonder about my nonappearance in their train. The Turn of the Screw Perhaps such scientific natures have some psychic prevision of the most tremendous problem of their lives. The Innocence of Father Brown The combination of even a simple form of clairvoyance and an active subconscious mind will often produce very wonderful results—although not of course the more complex phenomena of full clairvoyance and prevision. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers It 's all very well, but I have a distinct prevision of this—that if Roman life does n't do something substantial to make you happier, it increases tenfold your liability to moral misery. Roderick Hudson The prevision of a coming disappointment was impressing itself on their minds as well as on mine. The Moonstone "He would be miserable, if he had to give up his work," said Dorothea, with a quick prevision of that wretchedness. Middlemarch But the poor lady is one of the whiny-piny people, and must be in preparation for a development of which I have no prevision. The Vicar's Daughter Future-time clairvoyance, prevision and second-sight may, like any other form of clairvoyance, be developed and unfolded, by means of the same rules and methods that I have already suggested to you in the preceding lessons. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers Her death is sufficiently provided for from the beginning in her own fatalistic prevision: Johanna goes and never shall return. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller This divine prevision thus becomes the wisest and most beneficent provision. Life: Its True Genesis There was nothing financial, still less sordid, in her previsions: she cared about what were considered refinements, and not about the money that was to pay for them. Middlemarch There is not prevision, there is vision, because we are in time whereas God is in eternity. Initiation into Philosophy In some cases, however, the prevision seems to come as a warning, and in many cases the heeding of the warning has prevented the unpleasant features from materializing as seen in the vision. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers In all her previsions of the event she had seen herself surviving as the same Harriett Frean with the addition of an overwhelming grief. Life and Death of Harriett Frean He saw in this wonderful provision of nature, the still more wonderful prevision of God. Life: Its True Genesis Nevertheless, he observed with pleasure that Miss Brooke showed an ardent submissive affection which promised to fulfil his most agreeable previsions of marriage. Middlemarch For which prevision he was rewarded with a stinging smack on the head. The Channings In some cases persons have been warned by symbols of various kinds; or else have had prevision in the same way. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers No human prevision could have foreseen such a calamity. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude He knew nothing of its approach, had not the slightest prevision that the divinity had that moment put his hand to the shaping of his rough-hewn ends. Far Above Rubies Truly this would be to attribute a power of prevision to M. Lesseps beyond what is human. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. I had had no prevision of its existence, when I gave way to such extravagant and apparently helpless wishes. The Portent & Other Stories The prevision of the scout proved well founded. True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence His purpose was rather to be a connecting link between the varying groups in the development of a legislative programme which he forecast with shrewd prevision. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 And now, with a shadowy prevision, as it seemed, that something was going to happen, and with a shadowy recollection that she had known beforehand it was coming, something strange did take place. Far Above Rubies And his intuitions always seemed to amount to prevision, he never seemed to have acted amiss, however eccentric his act, however baseless his premonition. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Never enter into any discussion or prevision with a dinner invitation. Manners and Social Usages The presence of Mr. Bryan in the Cabinet and his well-known views on this question were strong reasons for watchful and careful prevision. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Nothing had ever yet happened to her sons, no accident, no fever, no important illness, but she had a prevision of it. The Virginians Clement Searle came forward, staring a little and startled, I think, by some quick nervous prevision of a catastrophe. A Passionate Pilgrim Marcia seems to have had some prevision or inkling of what was coming. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Next, we note Christ's clear prevision of His death, the violence of which is hinted at in the words, 'Shall be taken away from them.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Still further, notice how here we have, at the very beginning of our Lord's career, His distinct prevision of how it was all going to end. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV The smaller the detail, the more remarkable the prevision and the more striking the fulfilment. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Some curious prevision of evil seemed to trouble the mind of the good New Englander. The Fallen Leaves These two were alike children as regarded the world, but he had a man's dark prevision of the means, and she a heavenly scorn of everything but the end to be achieved. A Foregone Conclusion On the left, at a stone's throw from the road, stood a little pink-faced inn which reminded him that he had not breakfasted, having left home with a prevision of hospitality from Madame de Mauves. Madame De Mauves His exultation was not widely different from that of the experimenter, bending over the first stirrings of change that correspond to what in the fervor of concentrated prevision his thought has foreshadowed. Daniel Deronda We easily assumed that we were in the palace of some haughty hidalgo, adapted to the uses of a modern hotel, with a magical prevision which need not include the accurate jointing of a chimneypiece. Familiar Spanish Travels This letter is full of sickening recognition of evils that hold grave prevision of worse disaster. Letters of Catherine Benincasa You will be granted a prevision of complete success, and your hearts shall be filled--but you must not expect to find this mood on the Emilian Way when it is raining. The Path to Rome Mark the tone of the language, the minuteness of the detail, the absolute certainty of the prevision. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Her satisfaction was that Deronda was there; but there was no smile between them as they met and clasped hands; each was full of remembrance—full of anxious prevision. Daniel Deronda And the greater part of the gigantic progress which has been made in the present century is a justification of the prevision of Descartes. Science & Education And the boundaries of public service are already enlarged in making room for the previsions of the "Children of Always," as the mankind now in the thought of conservationists may well be called. The French in the Heart of America He outlived its commencement two years and six months, and the correctness of his previsions respecting it became better known by his death. The History of the Peloponnesian War They had no prevision of being stuck halfway up Crazy Woman's Hill with no water within fifteen miles, or they wouldn't have exclaimed so gayly at the beauty and picturesqueness of the tired cowboy. Hidden Creek It is our prevision of Nora's exit at the end of the last act that lends its dramatic poignancy to her entrance at the beginning of the first. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Now his flock demanded from him organisation, leadership, political and social prevision. Mahomet Founder of Islam But if domesticated cattle be substituted for the wild species, he again showed remarkable prevision of the future of a city which has enjoyed a world fame by reason of its cattle-market—its stock-yards. The French in the Heart of America This sort of prevision was not unfamiliar to him. Three More John Silence Stories To organize and administer the new industrial-financial-commercial régime, the leaders must be shrewd, ingenious, quick-witted, thick-skinned, unscrupulous, hard-headed, and avaricious; yet daring, dominating, and gifted with keen prevision and vivid imagination. Towards the Great Peace One thing remains to be decided: a plan of action, something which will demand all that we have of imagination, ingenuity, common sense, and far prevision. Red Masquerade His sagacious prevision enabled him to proportion the nature and extent of the benefit he conferred to the need it was intended to supply. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation It suggests the prevision of the nephew, Theodore Roosevelt, in making provision for the coaling of ships in the east long before the Spanish War was in sight. The French in the Heart of America France has obtained all she asked for, and, indeed, more than all her previsions warranted. Peaceless Europe They believed that Adelaide in some moment of prevision had managed to reach the telephone and send out this message. The House of the Whispering Pines I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address. The Open Door, and the Portrait. Stories of the Seen and the Unseen. From no merit or prevision of theirs, a happy and profitable transformation has been made of their undertaking. Canada and the States There must be in every heart a store of prevision of which we are not aware—occasions bring it out with such sudden and bewildering effect. The Prince of India — Volume 02 Though the utterance of one gifted with singularly clear prevision, the warning passed unheeded. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore Yes, the programme of the countess was carried out, but her previsions were not realized. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths Indeed I was haunted all winter by an irresistible prevision of what Rome must be in declared spring. Italian Hours Mr. Underwood lay back on a slope of moss, with a plaid beneath him, and a cushion under his head, and said that the Elysian fields must have been a prevision of this beech-wood. The Pillars of the House, V1 It is the light which must shine upon all toil that has in it intelligence, prevision, and freshness; and its glow is as essential in mechanical as in purely artistic work. Essays on Work and Culture Many of us climbed up in the rigging to see the fair sight—a prevision of blue skies and the calm delights of a land of eternal summer. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 The location of his interests in different places, which he had been accustomed, during the struggle, to look upon as a most fortunate prevision, resulted most disastrously. Bricks Without Straw Together they say their farewell to the vale of tears, and their streaming eyes have a prevision of heaven. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Labor-loving and honest, more than once had he earned money, and had always lost it in spite of every prevision and the utmost caution. Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Or has my spirit a divine prevision Of vast vague passions stored in days to be, When some strong souls shall conquer their division And two shall be as one, eternally? Last Poems The name was no boastful prevision of mighty deeds, as, at the Hut, a "Championship" was understood to mean some careless action usually occasioning damage to property, while our party included several noted "champions." The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 And her prevision of salvation contended with the dark menace of the hour. The U. P. Trail Comte claimed, like Saint-Simon, that the data of history, scientifically interpreted, afford the means of prevision. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth That is to say, we must draw evidence of our faith from its latent capacities, its unsuspected affinities, its previsions, its adaptability, comprehensiveness, sympathy, adequacy to human needs.' Born in Exile This note from Mrs. Woolstan, he knew not why, caused him uneasiness; a vague prevision of ill was upon him as he read. Our Friend the Charlatan Had not Homer a prevision of the faith that Aphrodites' altar belonged in the Temple of the Fates? At the Mercy of Tiberius Lane had a long look ahead," says James S. Harlan, "that often reminded one of the extraordinary prevision of Colonel Roosevelt. Letters of Franklin K. Lane But prevision was impossible on Condorcet's unscientific method. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth I have been precipitated, not without the previsions of my conscious mind, from my modest prosperity. Balzac So often have his previsions been deceived, that he has reached a state of complete scepticism. File No. 113 I suspect that the Necrophorus, without any prevision of the consequences of his action, heaved his back simply because he felt the legs of the creature above him. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects "Yes, Eliza, I will," answered the singer lady meekly, as this prevision of the life domestic rose up and menaced her. The Road to Providence Despite this evidence, I was anxious to enquire whether the reality corresponded with the previsions of the most elementary logic. More Hunting Wasps "But you'll have to leave us very soon to get yourself ready for the Tree," suggested the Professor's lady, with a motherly prevision. April Hopes "Cherish him can I while the true one forthcome - Come the rich fulfiller of my prevision; Life is roomy yet, and the odds unbounded." Wessex Poems and Other Verses Dost not rather wonder why Nearing blaze of joy like this, Some prevision had not lit Those dark hours with hope of it? The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) Had Artois such a thought, such a prevision? A Spirit in Prison Moreover, I have neither eloped, nor been insulted, nor been talked about, nor—so far as I know—deteriorated in manners or character; so that mamma is wrong in all her previsions. The Point of View So dismal had been, during the year that followed his cousin's marriage, Ralph's prevision of the future; and if his meditations appear morbid we must remember he was not in the bloom of health. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 He foresaw the very moment the explosion would take place; and we know that his previsions were in general correct. The Man in the Iron Mask If they didn't go out it was not that Mrs. Tramore was not ready in time, and Rose had even an alarmed prevision of their some day always arriving first. The Chaperon He himself had not shown the prevision required by sound military knowledge. Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence He lacked the prevision of Winfield Scott and Lee, both of whom expected from the first that the war would last for years. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray It had not been in his prevision of things that she should reveal such flatness; her sentiments were worthy of a radical newspaper or a Unitarian preacher. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 This is so true that this prevision actuates the concessions of the English ambassador. The French Revolution - Volume 3 It is totally impossible to suppose that this series of actions, which constitutes one behaviour-cycle, is inspired by any prevision of the end, at any rate the first time it is performed.* The Analysis of Mind Her prevision that, when she loved, it would be desperately, had been fulfilled. Beyond Davis stood for "Independence or extermination"; Lincoln simply for the Union, which, in his clear prevision, meant all that the body politic could need for a new and better life. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray If she was biding her time or hoping to circumvent her father she must have had a prevision of success. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 The apparently indifferent nature of the errand seemed to make a ridiculous anticlimax to my prevision and my agitation. The Lifted Veil And it can hardly be doubted that, in many cases of complicated behaviour very well adapted to its ends, there can be no prevision of those ends. The Analysis of Mind We have here, therefore, several days beforehand, the very clear prevision of an event which, moreover, in no way concerns the percipient: a curious detail, but one which is not uncommon in these cases. The Unknown Guest Thou shalt go on with this prevision: if from my murmuring thou hast received error, the true things will yet clear it up for thee. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory I have the prevision that from me a saint shall be born. The Path of the King Well, the prevision of its plight would cheer me in mine immensely. And Even Now All the above characteristics of instinct can be established by purely external observation, except the fact that instinct does not require prevision. The Analysis of Mind But is this a prevision of an event? The Unknown Guest From his youth upwards he had been ambitious to furnish the world with some important work; and prevision of resulting fame had given him strength and fortitude in periods of difficulty and depression. Royalty Restored Changes in bodily fashions are no such serious evils, but frequent changes in the praise and censure of manners are the greatest of evils, and require the utmost prevision. Laws The sequel seemed at first to justify her worst previsions. Other People's Money Moreover, we do not expect them to be so "conscious," and are prepared to admit that their instincts prompt useful actions without any prevision of the ends which they achieve. The Analysis of Mind In other words, the magical prevision of the father of Greek thought was but a reflex of Oriental wisdom. A History of Science — Volume 1 It was the first thing of the kind I ever received; I trembled under the prevision of some new misfortune as I opened the envelope. Little Novels The month's end was still far off; the apparition of her had shown itself to me, under some subtle prevision of trouble that was still in the future. The Two Destinies While he was still tortured by doubt, it seemed as if Father Benwell had, by some inscrutable process of prevision, planned out his future beforehand. The Black Robe He felt nothing approaching to a clear prevision of what was to come. Man and Wife Human beings may ere long take their nourishment in the form of pills; the prevision of that happy economy causes me no reproach when I sit down to a joint of meat. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft While I was still completely overcome by my own previsions of evil, my daughter put her arm in mine to take me to the top of the house. Little Novels The misfortunes which have since brought me so low had not then fallen on me; and yet, as I stood looking at you, I had the strangest prevision of calamity that was to come. The Two Destinies On many occasions he had given proof positive of the possession of extraordinary powers of prevision, so men said and believed. Native Life in South Africa Fantastically improbable as they had seemed, all her previsions had come true. The Glimpses of the Moon A flood of emotion, of which he had had no prevision, swelled up within him to fill his throat. The Riverman This was too much for me; my previsions, so to speak, forced their way into words. Little Novels He had of course no prevision of democratic Collectivism. Dark Lady of the Sonnets |
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