Thus we may foresee in general outline how, through the gradual concentration of the preponderance of physical power into the hands of the most pacific communities, the wretched business of warfare must finally become obsolete all over the globe.

I think I have told you of the completeness of his arrangementseverything had been foreseen from grindstones to gas nippers.

What can be foreseen with certainty is, that if the peace is to be made by the same men who made the war it will be so made that in another quarter of a century there will be another war on as gigantic a scale....

"Countries of which our fathers merely read, are getting to be as familiar as our own homes to their sons; and, with you, one can hardly foresee to what a pass of adventure the generation or two that will follow us may not reach.

The necessity of external ventilation has been foreseen for us.

An apology may be found for the failure to guard against this result in the consideration that the effect of the original act of incorporation could not be certainly foreseen at the time of its passage.

As I foresaw from the start, I can fix everything.

Southey remarks in the poem that could Dobrizhoffer have foreseen by whom his words were to be turned into English, he would have been as pleased as when he won the ear of the Empress Queen.

Her father, who foresaw for his child a life dependent on her character and exertion, a life of labour in teaching and governing others, taught Emilie to govern herself.

Yet one other effort I made to save myself from the difficulties I foresaw in connexion with this final breach with Christianity.

" What the people were anxiously forecasting, Louis foresaw with certainty, and took his measures accordingly.

Something more difficult to foresee than the suppression, henceforth certain, of slavery, is the consequence of this suppression.

That Russia should have come to the support of Servia was as easy to foresee as any future political event whatever.

Such honours as delivered nations yield, Such for thy virtues justly stand prepar'd: When erst on Oudenarde's decisive plain, Before thy youth, the Gaul defeated fled, The eye of fate foresaw on distant Maine, The laurels now that shine around thy head: Oh should entwin'd with these fresh Olives bloom!

41 There was one complication which Nelly Lebrun might have foreseen after her pretended change of heart and her simulated confession to Joe Rix that she still loved the lionlike Lord Nick.

It had not abandoned the idea of resuming the struggle by taking advantage of those complications that might be easily foreseen between Rome and the eastern powers; and, as the failure of the magnificent scheme of Hamilcar and his sons had been due mainly to the Carthaginian oligarchy, the chief object was internally to reinvigorate the country for this new struggle.