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forerunners
«Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.»
«Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.»
«The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.»
«Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: / That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: / Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; / Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.»
Author: Bible
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abundantly, confirmed, forerunner, forerunners, heirs, immutability, The Order, veil
«SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Augustine Nicholas relates that a poor peasant who had been accused of sorcery was put to the torture to compel a confession. After enduring a few gentle agonies the suffering simpleton admitted his guilt, but naively asked his tormentors if it were not possible to be a sorcerer without knowing it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accused, agonies, Augustine, compel, deemed, forerunner, forerunners, naively, Nicholas, prototype, prototypes, simpleton, simpletons, sorcerer, sorcerers, sorcery, The Suffering, tormentor
«The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, barbarism, chivalry, disgusting, forerunner, forerunners, odious, republicanism, ruins, scarcely
