They believed in a personal God, maker of heaven and earth, infinite in power, supreme in goodness, without beginning and without end, who exercises a providential oversight of the world which he made.

She needed oversight, continual admonition, to get any job done in time.

With all his deliberation, this gentleman has committed one oversight here, which, as it goes to contradict his scheme of the passive verb, some of his sixty venerable commenders ought to have pointed out to him.

at which he cowered and shrank ('and well he might,' said Harry), stammering out 'twas an oversight, a pure accident; and she going on to threaten him with law and vengeance, he asked hurriedly, would not the lady like to remove the poor man, and give him honourable burial?

Doubtless the immense increase of population in the county, especially in this part (Birmingham is already a separate diocese), demands further oversight and much strenuous church work, and doubtless, too, the same religious enthusiasm which brought into existence the beautiful structures of Coventry's golden age will be able to meet the demand and cope with the new problems and aspirations of the present day.

What a strange oversight," he exclaimed, seating himself nevertheless.

" "Excuse the oversight; I was not made for business, you know.

At times she feared some unfortunate oversight of her own, some careless allusion, or indiscreet act, might have served to remind Maud of the circumstances of her real birth.

But you are generous enough to forgive this oversight I am convinced.

The latter seeing that his daughters' husbands were lazy fellows, determined to make them useful, so he sent Pusong and Amo-Mongo out to take charge of his estates in the country, while to Singalong he gave the oversight of the servants who worked in the kitchen of the palace.

" "But," argued the disciple, "if a man habituate himself to a reverent regard for dutyeven while in his way of doing things he is impetuousin the oversight of the people committed to his charge, is he not passable?

Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and ministering in the temple; they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them and minister to them.

"You know the character of seamen too well, sir," he said, "to impute this oversight to my poor fellow as a heinous fault.

ENGINEERS, ROYAL NAVAL, since 1848 have ranked as commissioned officers; salaries vary from £110 to £639 a year; admission is by examination; duties include the entire oversight and management of the ship-machinery; there are three ranksinspectors of machinery, chief engineers, and assistants, the latter being of three grades; in 1888 engineer studentships were created.

On December 18 Mr. Hollis took charge of all British and American interests within the Transvaal while still keeping an oversight of the affairs of the United States in and around Lorenzo Marques.

Accordingly, he perpetuates the following oversight of the poet or blunder of the printer: [Footnote H: Suppression of the Monasteries, p. 13.]

Many of them accordingly have answered me, more or less elaborately, and they have pointed out oversights and misunderstandings, though few in number, and mostly very unimportant in substance.

I induced our telegraph operator to rectify this oversight, and felt repaid for my trouble when I showed the message.

Never mind, my dear John Bull, sixpence more in the pound Income-tax will remedy the little oversight.

But as it is an error on the one side, to make too great a disproportion betwixt the imaginary time of the Play, and the real time of its representation: so, on the other side, 'tis an oversight to compress the Accidents of a Play into a narrower compass than that in which they could naturally be produced.

And how d'ye think that hole comes there, barring all oversights in setting up the sticks?" "It has not been made intentionally, I should hope, O'Hearn?" "'Twas made by Joel, and that by just sawing off a post, and forcin' out a pin or two, so that the palisade works like a door.

Having been placed, by what seemed to be a providential intervention, in charge of these souls, I could not withdraw my oversight.

It was the great object of Leo to substantiate this claim, and root it in the minds of the newly converted barbarians; and then institute laws and measures which should make his authority and that of his successors paramount in all spiritual matters, thus centring in his See the general oversight of the Christian Church in all the countries of Europe.

At last the Diet began to interfere, for it claimed the general oversight of all internal affairs in the various States.

Only about twenty deities are alluded to in the monumental records of either nation, and they are supposed to have represented the sun, the moon, the stars, and various other powers, to which were delegated by the unseen and occult supreme deity the oversight of this world.