The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.
There is, however, no certainty that the Chinese were then capable of predicting eclipses.
He was president of the Union, and impressed all his contemporaries with his intellectual ability, Dr Jowett himself confidently predicting his signal success in any career he adopted.
This did not prevent Stoffler from predicting a universal deluge for the year 1524--a year, as it turned out, distinguished for drought.
The outcome of his discoveries was, not only to perfect the geometrical plan of the solar system, but to enhance very materially the predicting power of astronomy.
The number and changefulness of the data (unlike those of Astronomy) will prevent our ever predicting the far future of society.
On a knowledge of the truths respecting the succession of facts depends our power of predicting and influencing the future.
This genre painting was called un Sixte-Quint enfant, the subject being a gipsy womanpredicting he would become pope.
On the other hand, he never missed his lesson in comparative anatomy, and Cuvier had not a more assiduous pupil than he; showing him great friendliness, and predictingthat he would make a name in geology.
A knowledge of the tendencies only, though without the power of accurately predicting their conjunct result, gives us to a considerable extent this power.
The Southern people dearly love a speech, and they gave him close attention, especially as he was sanguine, predicting great victories.
They undertook to taunt her, though with good humour, on her Northern sympathies, and she replied in like vein, meeting all their arguments and predicting the fall of Richmond.
Socialists-communists around the earth have spent a wealth of time and energy during several generations predicting the present revolutionary upset and preparing for it.
Many trained, experienced observers have been predicting it.
Upon the troops who had been called on to fire upon the strikers, he called down the anger of God, predicting an hour of justice in which fire would descend from heaven to exterminate the bourgeoisie.
Mr. Adams and his friends were fond of comparing Van Buren with Aaron Burr, thoughpredicting that he would be too shrewd to repeat Burr's blunders.
The main difficulty in predicting the weather for any given place consists in this, that a change in the atmosphere need not originate in the place where it occurs.
It is true, there are general rules by which a proximate success in predicting may be obtained.
The papers, which a short time before had been most vehement in their denunciation of suffrage for taxpaying women, were now unanimous in commending their public spirit and predictingultimate victory through the women.
The test in Colorado is still too new to expect a unanimous verdict, yet all fair-minded observers are justified in predicting a higher standard of morals and of political life as a result of woman suffrage.
Not only the people of Lesbos resorted to it for guidance in difficult questions, but also the Asiatic Greeks from Ionia and Aetolia; and its fame and character for predicting future events even extended to Babylon.
I will mention only the uncertainty in predicting the weather for only one day ahead.
A conclusion always exceeds the present experience by predicting an expected experience.
Before the beginning of the Christian era astronomers had found out a rough-and-ready method of predicting eclipses, which is still of interest and value.
While the graybeards at home, the philosophers and statesmen, were predicting failure for him and demonstrating by precedent and logic that his success was impossible, he had succeeded.
Why, they are even predicting that the army of Alexander will run away before a blow has been struck.
That gloomy scientist, who is always predicting such terrible things going to happen?
Well, perhaps he won't do so much predictingthis trip.
And perhaps Mr. Parker, that gloomy scientist, who is always predicting terrible accidents, will be glad to go along.
But he worked faithfully, going up and down within the fortified circle, cheering, heartening, and predicting a better day for the morrow.
The strangers were among them, cheering them, and predicting victory if battle should come.
Paul brought up again the next morning the subject of their weather prospects, and Tom and Henry agreed with the others in predicting a great deal of snow and cold.
Franklin had been in the habit of predicting that as soon as America had become an independent nation, the best blood in Europe, and some of the finest fortunes, would hasten to seek a career or an asylum in the New World.
So many are the conditions and menaces that speculation pauses at predicting the results if the great law of reaction had not manifested itself at this juncture.
Even as late as the middle of February, the Duke of Wellington went about predicting that the Reform question could not be carried, and that the Grey Administration could not stand.
I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which they live, in common with so many other good facts the efflorescence of the period and predicting the good fruit that ripens.
We have already had ample proof that the Jewish writers not only did not scruple to narrate past events as if predicting future ones--to present history in the form of prophecy, but that they habitually did so.
Freethinkers are the prophets of this age, proclaiming justice as the right of all, and predicting a day of wrath to those who trample upon the rights of a long-suffering people.
Boston, proposing a scheme for undermining the power of Great Britain in the Colonies by free trade with France through Canada, and predicting that “all our colonies in less than ten years will catch fire.
It is pleasant to think that Berkeley, whose beautiful verses predicting the future of America are so often quoted, was so sweet and charming a character.
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