Yet, as some of these had been, for years, his best and kindest employers, the witch-seer found it go sorely against the grain of his affectionate nature to provoke a quarrel with them.
It was this breadth of vision, unhampered by mere intellectualism, but always kept within reasonable bounds by scientific deduction and analysis, which constituted Alfred Russel Wallace a seer of the first rank.
His breadth of vision transforms him from a mere student of astronomy into a seer who became ever more deeply conscious of the mystery both "before and behind.
This decision was, we are led to understand, arrived at somewhat hurriedly, and was largely accelerated because of a vision seen by a hoary seer of the tribe, who had interpreted the manifestation as a mandate to go forward to the attack.
Nephi 3:7 7 Yea, Joseph truly said: Thus saith the Lord unto me: A choice seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins; and he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of thy loins.
Nephi 3:6 6 For Joseph truly testified, saying: A seer shall the Lord my God raise up, who shall be a choice seerunto the fruit of my loins.
Thy gates of rock should show The words the Tuscan seer Read in the Realm of Woe Hope entereth not here!
First to the Seer did he turn, and austere was the scowl when he nam'd him: "Prophet of evils!
Later the same day, Thorkell remembered that somewhere on the mountains there lived an old farmer who was a seer and bard.
In his view the dramatic poet must have the vision of the seer as well as the penetration of a psychologist.
He speaks alternately like a seer and an artist; one who is now bewitched with the vision of beauty, and now is caught up into Paradise, where he hears unutterable things.
I had occasion once to be in company where a young lady was (excuse my not naming of persons), and I was told there was a notable seer in the company.
The M'Kenzies followed with infinite zeal; and more than one ball had whistled over the head of the seer before he reached Loch Ousie.
Nor knew they in their fear what they should do, seeing that on the one hand was the land of the Cyclopes, and on the other Scylla and Charybdis, of which the seer Helenus had bidden them beware.
And then he went to fetch the seer Theoclymenus, that he might bring him to the palace.
Then did they sacrifice to Minerva, and to Juno also, which rites the seer Helenus had chiefly commanded.
Yet must thou first go another journey, even to the dwellings of the dead, there to speak with the seer Tiresias.
Then she told him all that he must do if he would hold converse with the dead seer Tiresias, and hear what should befall him.
Then at the bidding of the seer Kaikeyí’s strong-armed son drew near, And passed within that fair abode Which with the noblest jewels glowed.
The flatteringseer in former days My gentle girlish smile would praise, And swear that holy water shed By Bráhman hands upon my head Should make me queen, a monarch’s bride: How is the promise verified?
Thus honoured and dismissed the seer Departed to his heavenly sphere.
The artist is a seer and prophet, the channel of divine influences: the individual painter, sculptor, writer, is a very human being.
In the realm of thought an Emerson, seer of transcendent vision, must come to restore his fellows to their birthright, which is the life of the spirit.
A child who at the age of six is a “mighty prophet, seer blest,” is a highly improbable not to say impossible child.
Yet the admirers of Hugo would not only promote him to the first rank of poets, but would have us share his own belief that he is a seer and a prophet.
The Seer of Patmos tells us that the heavenly Jerusalem has no need of the light of the sun and the moon to shine upon it, "for the glory of God hath enlightened it and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.
To that exclamation of the nineteenth century writer the medievalseer answers with conviction that the summum bonum is to be found only in the intellect's attaining Truth.
But when maturity comes, we shall find the seer filled with enthusiasm, and bearing fruit like the vines of the Land of Promise.
The scientist is a seer within the limits of his field of observation; the saint is a spiritual seer, but he also sees material things and their laws more clearly than other men, and invests them with spirit.
And the seer Calchas will to his cost consecrate the sacrificial cakes and lustral waters.
The magician of the maerchen gives place to the seer who predicts the future.
This is due particularly to the fact that ecstatic visions are dependent upon a certain psychological predisposition, a fact which also enables us to understand the influence exercised by the individual seer and prophet upon religion and cult.
The city where the seer lived lay on the side of a hill, and there was a well by the gate, and as Saul and his servant drew near they found young maidens going out, with pitchers on their heads, to fetch water for supper.
Leaving these where they lay, he went in pursuit of Abas and Polyidus, the sons of Eurydamas, a famous seer and interpreter of dreams.
He paused, and the silence was breathless, for the Indians looked on this man as a seer to whom the future was as luminous as the past.
So he stood awed and trembling, questioning within himself, like some seer to whom a dark and uncertain revelation has been made.
Multnomah, in a tone that was half inquiry, half command; for the seer whose mysterious power as an orator gave him so strong an influence over the Indians must be there.
Massive and commanding as was his character he was still an Indian, and the words of the seer had touched the latent superstition in his nature.
Those nearest to him shrank away, whispering to one another that the seer looked like a dead man.
But the seer was gone, and Multnomah stood alone among the trees.
