The mysterious visitor, whom Mozart believed to be the precursor of his death, we now know to have been Count Walseck, who had recently lost his wife, and wished a musical memorial.
His chief Ethical precursor in this vein is Shaftesbury; but he is easily able to produce from Theologians abundant iterations of it.
Such a mental condition, which he thought it was in every man's power to acquire by appropriate teaching and companionship, constituted virtue; and was the sure as well as the only precursor of genuine happiness.
He was not the firstprecursor of Selkirk on the island, for Ringrose, p.
A precursor of Alexander Selkirk, he lived alone upon the island for more than three years, till in March, 1684, when Capt.
In the approaching conflict we see the precursor of the Hildebrands and the Beckets.
He is precursorof all the modern biographers of Columbus, and his book was published at Milan, in 1818.
Mrs. Behn, the first English woman to write definitely for money, was but the precursor of various women in succeeding years who came to regard the products of their minds as of pecuniary significance.
On a perusal of that book he found it so unimportant a precursor as not to interfere with his plan.
He is neither a precursor nor an epigone, neither a forerunner nor a late-comer.
A Jew, Berachya ben Natronaï, was the precursor of Marie de France, the famous French fabulist, and La Fontaine and Lessing are indebted to him for some of their material.
Critics think him the precursor of Boccaccio, and history knows him as the friend of Dante, whose Divina Commedia he travestied in Hebrew.
In that republic she saw only the precursor of her own ruin, the ruin of all dear to her, and general anarchy.
Here they at once hail his advent as a matter of good omen, or the precursor of good fortune, and allow him to do and see whatever he likes.
The volume before us belongs to the Clarendon Press series, and is the precursor of a larger work on the same subject.
The only panty hose that you have ever stroked are the ones you take off as a precursor to your copulatory sports.
Watt was the properprecursor of the nineteenth century inventions, as in him were combined the power and attainments of a great scientist and the genius of a great mechanic.
St. Kieran, the favourite Celtic saint, was the precursor of St. Columba, and even it is said his instructor in the faith.
But as these things of the past have made way for the time which is, so too must it give place, as a transition time and the precursor of a still brighter future.
He devotes part of one sermon to a refutation of the Epicurean poet, in whom he sees a precursor of his bête noire, Hobbes!
In this as in other ways, he is a precursor of the Reformation.
This was a precursor of the work of Darwin, and another of the great books of all time.
What at first seemed to be a hardship in his case proved a blessing, and the precursor of higher honors.
It was a suitable precursor of the Declaration of Independence, paving the way for the indorsement of that document.
More than three months had elapsed since the event narrated in the last chapter, and it had been the precursor of others of still greater importance, which will evolve themselves in the course of our narrative.
He was the precursor of that large and various school of collectivist thinkers in the nineteenth century who are lumped together as Socialists.
This extraordinary political growth was manifestly the precursor of all modern states of the western type.
A difficult child was Frederick II for Mother Church, and he was only the precursor of many such difficult children.
It was not, indeed, that warm interest which is the precursor of friendship; its object had no qualities that could rise to such a height; it was simply a sensation of pity, abetted by a wish of doing good.
The north porch is an astonishing Renaissance addition, which, from its curves and curls, would seem to be theprecursor of "l'art nouveau.
The squall which blew the Kinlossie boat round the Eagle Point was but the precursor of a succession of heavy squalls which quickly changed into a furious gale, compelling Ian Anderson to close reef his sails.
It is sad to think that in human affairs this condition is not unfrequently the precursor of misfortune.
In the meantime, the forest began to change its hues, losing that lively green which had embellished its arches, in the graver light which is the usual precursor of the close of day.
It was known, by all present, to be the braveprecursor of a weighty and important judgment.
Raising a shout of triumph, he sprang toward the defenseless Cora, sending his keen axe as the dreadful precursor of his approach.
