The attitude of the Gael towards the supernatural, and his general outlook upon life in times gone by, was not associated with unbroken gloom; nor was he always an ineffectual dreamer and melancholy fatalist.

The people of Persia are all fatalists.

"I do," exclaimed an obliging fatalist.

I glance disdainfully at the fatalist whom I have refuted, and prepare again to lay down the first row of cards.

I dismiss the fatalist as a quibbler and play on.

To the fatalist, John Stevens would seem to be one of those unfortunate beings doomed to be made the sport of a capricious fortune.

We are fatalists, we Russians near the Tartar line!

What wonder then that they are fatalists?

In November, 1738, was published a translation of Crousaz's Examen of Pope's Essay on Man; containing a succinct view of the system of the fatalists, and a confutation of their opinions; with an illustration of the doctrine of free will; and an enquiry, what view Mr. Pope might have in touching upon the Leibnitzian philosophy, and fatalism: by Mr. Crousaz, professor of philosophy and mathematics at Lausanne.

He considered the foreign philosopher as a man zealous in the cause of religion; and with him he was willing to join against the system of the fatalists, and the doctrine of Leibnitz.

To be a parent is almost to be a fatalist.

He turn'd the Fatalist's rash eye to Him In whom the issues are of life and death; He taught to whom the battle isto whom The victory belongs.

" Rachel might have known that the consolation offered by fatalists is only the recommendation of a resignation which, as fated itself, is gloomy, if not awful, for it amounts to an annihilation of self, with all hopes, energies, and resolutions.

Perhaps there may have been a few more wife murders than necessary, but, if one assumes to call wife murder a crime, he must be reminded that the natives of Japat were fatalists.

"They are fatalists, they are stoics.

Fabiani shrugged his shoulders and raised his brows to the sky, with the resignation of the fatalist.

The author of Ionica seems to bring the old Greek fatalist to modern England, and to conduct him to church upon a Sunday morning.

They had acquired, therefore, a mental outlook which was determinist without being fatalist, and which combined the most absolute submission to Nature with untiring energy in thought and action.

He was a fatalist worthy of his city, which is now being besieged and ruined not for the first time.

He was so warped by his religious training as to have become a fatalist as well as a fanatic.

These were the fatalists of the town, who would not turn refugee; helpless to fight, but grimly staying with their homes and accepting what came with an incomprehensible stoicism, which possibly had its origin in a race-feeling so proud and bitter that they would not admit that they could be afraid of anything German, even a shell.

The design of this excellent poem is to demonstrate the self-existence of an eternal mind, from the created and dependent existence of the universe, and to confute the hypothesis of the Epicureans and the Fatalists, under whom all the patrons of impiety, ancient and modern, of whatsoever denomination may be ranged.

But I am rather a fatalist about friendship, and I think that most of us get about as much as we deserve.

MAN OF DESTINY, name given to Napoleon Bonaparte as reflecting his own belief, for he was a fatalist.

"Yea, yea," cry loudly the French fatalists; and "Yea, yea," respond with firm assurance Buckle & Co. in England; and "Yea," there are many to say in our own land.