He was the sun-god of the Greeks, and was the embodiment of divine prescience, of healing skill, of musical and poetical productiveness, and hence the favorite of the poets.

His keen prescience and profound sagacity induced him to return to his distracted country, where he knew his services would soon be required.

How plainly one catches through the words of the last speaker an eager prescience of events to come!the sweep of General Gough on Warlencourt and Bapaumethe French reoccupation of Péronne.

510 If this be so, then prescience binds the will, And mortals are not free to good or ill; For what he first foresaw, he must ordain, Or its eternal prescience may be vain: As bad for us as prescience had not been: For first, or last, he's author of the sin.

There is the Patriarch, in calm forethought, and with holy prescience, giving directions.

Some sudden impulse or vague prescience moved Marcia to open the door herself.

She also said "Yes," although her eyes in their mysterious prescience of all he was thinking disclaimed the necessity of any answer at all.

" "Foreseen and foretold!" returned the other, in a manner to show that her faith in the professional prescience of the stranger was not altogether so unbounded as that of her more youthful and ardent companion.

" Tiffles replied to the effect that he would give them a dollar's worth apiece; but, in his heart, he foresaw, with that remarkable prescience which is occasionally vouchsafed to mortals, that the panorama of Africa was doomed to be a bad failure; and he bitterly regretted that he had not tried some one of a dozen other immense speculations which he had thought of.

The entire work possesses an impassioned aspect, an air of spiritual prescience, far more than the exactitude of science.

Instinct, that sublime prescience, has revealed to all that a great peril has just been born.

He was ill, very illshe had become certain of this now, by a divination in which there was less of reasoning than of subtle prescience.

And if Mr. Webster had lived to see the war of which he had such anxious prescience, I firmly believe that he would have marched under the banner of the North with patriotism equal to any man.

Some sudden impulse or vague prescience moved Marcia to open the door herself.

Only a few weeks before his death Ned had written with curious prescience, "If I go out any time, Phil, I know you will look after the children as I would myself or better.