He had already a dim prevision of the day when the princes of Europe would gather timidly about the dreaded figure of the Corsican and his Foreign Minister.
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.
And, on the other hand, the highest quantitative prevision does not reach the exact truth, but only a very near approximation to it.
We mean that all quantitative previsionis reached deductively; and that induction can achieve only qualitative prevision.
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.
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.
But however this may be, it is clear that as fast as the notion of equality gained definiteness, so fast did that lowest kind of quantitativeprevision which is achieved without any instrumental aid, become possible.
But supposition aside, it is clear that the habitual recognition of these claims in their laws implied some prevision of social phenomena.
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.
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.
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.
In some cases persons have been warned by symbols of various kinds; or else have had prevision in the same way.
Certainly, good student, but still clairvoyance plays an important part even in this elementary form of prevision and future-seeing.
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.
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.
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.
By some trick of mental adjustment she had gained a clear prevision of how necessary it was to select the right socially, and to conceal her true motives and feelings; and yet she was by no means a snob, mentally, nor utterly calculating.
On the way over he thanked the prevision which had caused him, in anticipation of some such attack as this, to set aside in the safety vaults of the Chicago Trust Company several millions in low-interest-bearing government bonds.
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 next morning when they lay on the shore they saw two French boats on the lake, and Robert was confirmed in his opinion that the prevision of the French leaders would enable them to strike the first blow.
He felt nothing approaching to a clearprevision of what was to come.
Her prevision that, when she loved, it would be desperately, had been fulfilled.
Are not simple conception and prevision subjective ends pure and simple?
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.
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.
So that his wise second-sight was recognized in England much beyond the prevision of Adam Smith.
Bancroft, whose work shows unprecedented access to original documents, recognizes the prevision of the French minister at an earlier date, as attested by the archives of the French Foreign Office.
Ay--a prevision of his staying to dinner made me stay and dine with the --th mess.
Certainly, if Phoebe had had any prevision of her present state of mind, she never would have bought that chiffonier.
The journey had begun so auspiciously that I alighted from the sleeper in the early dawn, feeling, what the sporting Englishman would call “uncommonly fit,” and with no prevision of what lay before me.
When he was restored to our home-circle in season for the Christmas festivities, we rejoiced without a prevision of possible further ill from the hateful cause, now forever removed, as we fondly believed.
But she did not want laurels for herself--only for Westenra; and the more despair filled her the more she loved her big difficult Irishman, whose nerves and torment and prevision for the rottenness of life's rewards nearly drove her crazy.
With her curious sense of prevision it was revealed to her in some way that for the moment the Jew was arbiter of her destiny.
My dear little son said this to Joseph Todhetley when he was dying--and I fancy that some prevision of death must have lain then upon his spirit and caused him to say it, though he himself might not have been quite conscious of it.
Tod said, afterwards, there must have been some previsionon the child's mind when she said this.
She left a most striking expression of her religious belief, written in the summer of 1884, at a time when she had no prevision of the fiery trials which were still in store for her.
He drew an imaginary pattern on the table with a fork; he couldn't think why they'd given him a fork unless it was a prevision that he would need something to fidget with.
Julian had never worked with an efficient woman before, and Stella's promptness and prevision surprised him; but this Julian never showed any surprise.
The apparently indifferent nature of the errand seemed to make a ridiculous anticlimax to my prevision and my agitation.
I might have believed this importunate insight to be merely a diseased activity of the imagination, but that my prevision of incalculable words and actions proved it to have a fixed relation to the mental process in other minds.
The prevision of a philosophic statesman is grounded on the knowledge of the past and on the analysis of existing tendencies.
The Stoics already derived from the decrees of God the prevision of events.
That is involved inprevision and predetermination, and forms the reason thereof.
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.
Thus neither futurition in itself, certain as it is, nor the infallible previsionof God, nor the predetermination either of causes or of God's decrees destroys this contingency and this freedom.
As for the destination of the elect to eternal life, the Protestants, as well as those of the Roman Church, dispute much among themselves as to whether election is absolute or is founded on the prevision of final living faith.
Bayle holds the opposite opinion, he wished (as he states in the margin) to avoid the terms that would not agree with a system of decrees subsequent to the prevision of contingent events.
