The Bible tells us quite enough of futurity to teach us to prepare for it, as far as it rests with us to prepare.
Whether he were to be a king and founder of a hereditary throne, or the victorious leader of a people contending for their freedom, or the apostle of a purified and regenerated faith, was left for futurity to show.
Tarnish it not by any pensive shadow of the mind, for it may be that nothing of futurity will be brighter than the mere remembrance of what is now passing.
Men who have no opportunities of shewing it as to things in this life, take death and futurity as objects on which to display it.
The Little Girl Lost, "In Futurity I prophetic see.
Petrarch wrote his funeral eulogy, and alludes to Dionisio's power of reading futurity by the stars.
XIX Captive on a foreign shore, Far from Ilion's hoary wave, Agamemnon's bridal slave Speaks Futurity no more: Death is busy with her grave.
The present age and futurity will laud your courage in having burst asunder the chains which now bind your hands.
They blessed Him who thus veils futurity from the eye of mortals, and, as in the present instance, turns dark into light to those who seek his guidance and protection in faith.
Our good name is defamed,--futurity will brand with scorn our nobility, who deserted their Duke's banners.
But he confided so much of futurity to it, he overloaded it with so much responsibility, that it became urgent and indispensable to him.
Meantime, although he had hitherto placed all his futurity in that capital, a victory so sanguinary and so little decisive lowered his hopes.
Some overpowering, some unexplained fascination about these dark and mysterious chambers of the mountain arouses in us a desire strangely like to that intense craving for a knowledge of futurity itself.
And yet not man, we think, for the head will surely hold the same strange converse with futurity when man shall have vanished from the face of the earth.
On The Possible Futurity Of The Laboring-Classes.
It was rarely that Falkland alluded even so slightly to the futurity of another world; and when he did, it was never in a careless and commonplace manner, but in a tone which sank deep into Emily's heart.
In the midst of these perpetual fluctuations of his lot, the present grows upon his mind, until it conceals futurity from his sight, and his looks go no further than the morrow.
The world is sown with bodies: is futurity as filled with souls?
Formations rich in fossils of many kinds, and of thickness sufficient to last to an age as distant in futurity as the secondary formations lie in the past, would generally be formed in the archipelago only during periods of subsidence.
It is not for a day I love Corinne; to her I look for a long futurity of content and virtue.
I am afraid that part of her education which deals with futurity had been neglected.
I am going to try, alone and for ever, the value of those theories of futurity and the unseen which I have quietly scouted all my days.
The sight of that pale face was a cold pang at her heart--a face prophetic of evil, at sight of which the dark curtain which hid futurity seemed to sway and tremble, as if a hand from behind was on the point of drawing it.
So, when remote futurity is brought Before the keen inquiry of her thought, A terrible sagacity informs The poet's heart; he looks to distant storms; He hears the thunder ere the tempest lowers!
Poets, as Shelley said, are “the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
They appeared to find in it a mournful presentiment of a futurity without happiness and without hope.
