Then He has revealed His purposes; we are not left to grope in darkness, at the mercy of 'peradventures' and 'probablies'; nor reduced to consult the ambiguous oracles of nature or of ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
"peradventures" the least in point within his experience. ❋ Unknown (1880)
Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow to your likings. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Now, if we neglect these things, if we walk at all peradventures with God, attending neither to means nor duties, nor the exercise of grace, as we should, we are not to wonder if we find ourselves decaying, yea, ready to die. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
And yet he who is negligent in this inquiry walks at all peradventures with God, -- knows not whereabout he is in his way, whether he be nearer or farther off from his journey's end than he was before. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
He that is so lives in the dark to himself, and walks at peradventures with God, not knowing how he walketh nor whither he goeth. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
"You have the easier cause to champion," she said, when there was a momentary lull, "for all your evidences can be pointed to and counted; whereas mine, poor things -- pale hypotheses, nameless peradventures -- lie in forgotten churchyards -- unthought of, unthanked, untrumpeted, and all their tragedy is lost in the everlasting silence." ❋ Mona Caird (N/A)
I mean to say, I bet you got your lawyer to write him a letter full of whereases, peradventures, and parties of the first part, and so forth. ❋ Unknown (1928)
It is full of "whereases" and "peradventures" and "heretofores" and similar swank, and there aren't any stops in it. ❋ Unknown (1928)
Here is Gots plessing, and your friend, and Justice Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow to your likings. ❋ Unknown (1914)
But Johnson has heroically set all peradventures at defiance, and takes the whole charge upon himself. ❋ Various (1887)
Faith, I'll go seek peradventures, [146] and be a serving-creature. ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)
But let us make God in Christ our hope, and pass from peradventures to certitudes; from 'To-morrow may he as this day -- would that it might,' to 'It shall be, it shall be, for God is my expectation and my hope.' ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
Everywhere else we have only peradventures, hopes, fears, guesses more or less doubtful, and roundabout inferences as to His disposition and attitude towards us. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
We have enough of man's peradventures about a future life, enough of evidence more or less valid to show that it is 'probable,' or 'not inconceivable,' or ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
And it delivers men from all their creeping dreads, from all their dark peradventures, from all their stinging fears, from all the paralysing uncertainties which, like clouds, always misty and often thunder-bearing, have shut out the sight of the divine face. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
Christians heard at first, the good news that was brought to them in the midst of their gropings and peradventures, commanded, in the first place, absolute trust, the submission of the will as well as the assent of the understanding. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
Then, amidst whirling mists and tossing seas, there is a fixed point to which we can moor; then our confidence is built, not on peradventures or speculations or wishes or dreams or hopes, but on a historical fact, and grasping that firm we may stand unmoved. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
And so we point to that Cross and say, 'There! not in words, not in thoughts, not in speculations, not in hopes and fears and peradventures and dim intuitions, but in a solid fact; there is the ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
Apart from Him we are but groping amid peradventures. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
