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Yet how foreknow and dread in one breath, unless with this divine seeming power of prescience, you blend the actual slimy powerlessness of defense?

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

It is readily conceded, that, in the order of nature, the Divine Being could not foreknow that a world would certainly exist, until he had determined to create it.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

As one in nerves, and pulse, and spirits bad, Who of some frequent fever waits the blow, E'en so I felt—for how could I foreknow Such near end of the half-joys I have had?

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

In short, if one can foreknow what a comparison will reveal, telepathy before the comparison is unproven.

From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van

But after ourselves moving in such an environment it is marvelous to ponder that any creatures prefer it, and good to foreknow that our own world will swim out into a splendid frosty weather.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian

Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .

From Time Magazine Archive

Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Why did he not leave all such uncreated, and call into existence only such as he foreknew would obey his law, and become like himself in purity and bliss?

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

Infinite cruelty rather that made everlasting Hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoomed us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan!

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

“But now, do you believe, Mr Liversedge,—I have picked up the words from this fellow—that God elected men because He foreknew them, or that He foreknew because He had elected them?”

From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Holt, Emily Sarah

So, foreknowing the years, and sharply discerning the future, Guessing the riddle of life, and accepting the cruel solution,–– Side by side they sat, as far as the stars are asunder.

From Poems by Howells, William Dean

"Skroppa herself could not be foreknowing about him!"

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)

I speak not, my lord, as wishful of what I say, but simply as foreknowing it.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

She did other things besides foreknowing the fall of storms, for she took James Sandieson when in a strange distemper and tormented him greatly.

From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

Bid my destiny Yield to thy power the dark and hidden end, And let me fall foreknowing.

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

Emergency managers in central Puget Sound understand what is possible and are doing their best to plan for the foreknown consequences of a major earthquake.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The fortunes of cities, as well as of men," said Plutarch, "have their certain periods of time prefixed, which may be collected and foreknown from the position of the stars."

From Time Magazine Archive

Prescience makes the events foreknown, certain; but if certain, they must be necessary.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip