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futurity
1. But those who, in order to make family settlements, and to provide for remote futurity, buy into the public stocks, would not care to purchase into one of which the value was continually diminishing ; and such people make a very considerable proportion, both of the proprietors and purchasers of stock
2. "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale" - Thomas Jefferson (American 3rd President)
3. The present tense isoften used for the future, in order to present the idea of futurity withgreater force
4. , to have to, expressive of futurity or mild
5. The Sadducees occupied an unassailable post when they declared that Moses and the Prophets knew nothing of the Immortality of the Soul as a basis of hope in futurity
6. There is no forgiveness for him either under the law or under the Messiah's kingdom, either in this world or in futurity
7. For even if it be true that occasionally the mists of tune disperse and permit a momentary glance over the fiery eternity, the very circumstance of the endlessness of the vision has a tendency to draw the attention away from that near and immediate prospect of judgment, which follows on death, to the inconceivably remote futurity, whose distance, through the dimness of the perspective, invests it with a haze of unreality, and prevents it from exercising a definite influence on the conduct of life
8. If she had seen his face when, safe in his own room, he looked at the picture of a severe and rigid young lady, with a good deal of hair, who appeared to be gazing darkly into futurity, it might have thrown some light upon the subject, especially when he turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark
9. fraught with happiness; and on futurity I bestowed not a thought, excepting to
10. extricate himself out of present difficulties, my father was totally regardless of futurity
11. Yet he did not leave a foot of this granite wall, as impenetrable as futurity, without strict scrutiny; he did not see a fissure without introducing the blade of his hunting sword into it, or a projecting point on which he did not lean and press in the hopes it would give way
12. The Mohican maintained his firm and haughty attitude; and his eyes, so far from deigning to meet her inquisitive look, dwelt steadily on the distance, as though it penetrated the obstacles which impeded the view and looked into futurity
13. It had shown him where to set his foot, while the light of earth was fast becoming dim, and ere the light of futurity could reach him
14. At times, a fearful doubt strove to possess her soul, whether it were not better to send Pearl at once to heaven, and go herself to such futurity as Eternal Justice should provide
15. Examine the past and the present, and endeavor to dive into futurity, and then say whether I am not a divine instrument
16. Yet, from time to time, the gentle and caressing glance of the young girl shone upon him and constrained him away from his sad thoughts, drawing him with her into the fields of hope and of futurity, where she loved to hold him at her side
17. Looking still more remotely to the future, we may predict that, owing to the continued and steady increase of the larger groups, a multitude of smaller groups will become utterly extinct, and leave no modified descendants; and consequently that, of the species living at any one period, extremely few will transmit descendants to a remote futurity
18. Formations rich in fossils of many kinds, and of thickness sufficient to last to an age as distant in futurity as the secondary formations lie in the past, would generally be formed in the archipelago only during periods of subsidence
19. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distinct futurity
20. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity; for the manner in which all organic beings are grouped, shows that the greater number of species in each genus, and all the species in many genera, have left no descendants, but have become utterly extinct
21. We can so far take a prophetic glance into futurity as to foretell that it will be the common and widely spread species, belonging to the larger and dominant groups within each class, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species
22. I confess to you, my friend, that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion
