Prophetic

Examples

• But after the building of the temple and the organization of the priesthood, the prophetic type remains over and outside the formal religious scheme. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As for sitting still, and learning from the past, or shaping out the future by faithful work done in a prophetic spirit--Why! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• From being a temple religion of the old type, the Jewish religion becomes, to a large extent, a prophetic and creative religion of a new type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Let us ape Roger Bacon in his prophetic mood, and set down what we believe will be the broad fundamentals of the coming world state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If Bulstrode should turn out to be a rascal, Frank Hawley had a prophetic soul. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The prophetic books of the Bible can be but specimens of the prophesyings of that time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are, therefore, retrospective and resultant, instead of being prospective or prophetic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Her uncle's prophetic soul anticipated a splendid future. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It'll do that afore long, Sir,' observed the tall man, in a low, prophetic voice. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I had quite a prophetic feeling when Captain Lennox'--and here the voice dropped into a whisper, but Margaret could easily supply the blank. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He may even be thought to have a prophetic anticipation of the discoveries of Quetelet and others, that numbers depend upon numbers; e. Plato. The Republic.
• And he was not simply a prophetic theorist; he was also a propagandist of the revolt of labour, the revolt of the so-called proletariat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Another of Medora's fads--really this time it was almost prophetic! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer, whether from cowardice or a prophetic feeling, I felt my heart sink within me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Christianity almost from its commencement ceased to be purely prophetic and creative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If his prophetic soul had been urged to particularize, it seemed to him that fits would have been the definite expression alighted upon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There are many points in which he shows a modern feeling and a prophetic insight like Plato. Plato. The Republic.
• For all the parade of learning and dialectic is an after-thought--an accident from the fact that the prophetic genius of Marx appeared in Germany under the incubus of Hegel. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What is clearly apparent is that the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth was a _prophetic teaching_ of the new type that began with the Hebrew prophets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But his prophetic eye extends beyond them to the false teachers of other ages who are the creatures of the government under which they live. Plato. The Republic.
• Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It does not require a particularly acute prophetic vision to see Flower Towns of Poured Houses going up in whole suburbs outside all our chief centres of population. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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