And of our good and of our dignity, How provident he is.
Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
About the same time he ordered all his subjects, with a view to the maintenance of order and provident management, to be numbered, and each to have his number sewn on his collar.
The deceased had, it must be confessed, ruined himself in a very strange way: 'provident management' had been his destruction.
One thing should not be unnoticed; a provident fund is established for the poor, from which the sick, aged, and persons suffering from want of work, are aided in time of need.
The provident and careful man must necessarily be a thoughtful man, for he lives not merely for the present, but with providentforecast makes arrangements for the future.
But at last, thoughtful of her health, provident of her weakness, he rose up and passed his arm around her to convey her home.
At this moment, the conference was cut short by Mrs. Scudder's provident footsteps on the garret-stairs.
Thus, about a hundred years after the repulse of the ambitious exaltation sought by Anatolius, its rejection by the provident wisdom and resolute courage of St. Leo was more than justified by the course of events.
In a word, it appeared that this extremely discreet and provident old woman had consulted with the cavaliers and the renegado, and had concerted the whole plan of escape.
With provident thoughtfulness, he had brought tea, roasted coffee, fresh butter, eggs, etc.
With provident care, a little box had been placed under the seat of the wagon, containing an awl, waxed ends, and various other little conveniences exactly suited to an emergency like the present.
Labour Protection seeks to guard against abuse of contract fines, by fixing the highest permissible amount of fines, and by handing over the proceeds of the fines to the workmen's provident fund.
He was long an active officer of the Boston Provident Association, and at the time of his death had been for many years one of the most influential members of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University.
They were less provident even than the peasants of the Middle Ages, for they failed to adopt the old system of rotation of crops that would have arrested to some extent the exhausting of their fields.
He was provident even to stinginess and we find him sending his wig to England to be made over and his old sword to be exchanged for a new one.
The providenttravellers had, however, brought good wine; and if our supper was not very elegant, it was at least very gay.
This provident forecast has been verified by time.
Internal improvement, the fruit of individual enterprise, fostered by the protection of the States, has added new links to the Confederation and fresh rewards to provident industry.
Queen, take this parchment back again; return it to my father, and tell him that I thank him for his provident goodness, but will decline the brilliant lot which this act offers me.
My provident grandfather never missed an occasion to throw in a useful moral, notwithstanding the general character of veracity that distinguished his commerce.
The Anabaptists were for the most part good workmen, and patient and provident cultivators of the soil, ready to pay all dues but the unscriptural war-tax.
Footnote 721: "Through the mercy of God and the providentcare of His own Vicar upon earth.
This wise and provident law is or ought to be the law in all countries: it was in fact the law in that country, but Mr. Hastings did not attend to it.
They ripen in the month of November, and last in the woods till March, or are gradually collected and preserved at home by provident persons.
A state constituted like this could act and endure with gigantic energy whenever pressing emergencies called forth its powers and a skilful and provident administration elicited its resources.
