All 38 Uses
providence
in
The Pathfinder, by Cooper
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- Well, we must take the fare that Providence bestows, while we follow the trail of life.†
Chpt 1 *providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- Still, there are matters which belong altogether to the ordering of God's providence; and these salt and fresh-water lakes are some of them.†
Chpt 2
- Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to larn its lessons.†
Chpt 2
- I can't do it myself unless by means of Providence, and it needs Jasper's hand and eye to make sure of a dry passage.†
Chpt 3
- The Lord is with us, boy, the Lord is with us; and it is unreasonable to suppose that one like the Sergeant's daughter will be altogether abandoned by Providence in such a strait.†
Chpt 5
- I have passed days thinking of these matters, out in the silent woods, and I have come to the opinion, boy, that, as Providence rules all things, no gift is bestowed without some wise and reasonable end.†
Chpt 6
- The Great Sarpent is in the hands of his own Deity, and will live or die, according to the intentions of Providence.†
Chpt 6
- If ye value your lives, think of reaching the garrison, and leave the Delaware in the hands of Providence.†
Chpt 6
- What, for instance, is the reason that seafaring men in general are so religious and conscientious in all they do, but the fact that they are so often alone with Providence, and have so little to do with the wickedness of the land.†
Chpt 7
- No doubt you will, lad; no one doubts your willingness to do anything to serve the Sergeant's daughter; but it must be the eye of Providence, and not your own, that will take you safely through the Oswego rift in a night like this.†
Chpt 7
- "They have their gifts, I suppose, like other men," observed Pathfinder, with a view to preserve the peace, which was evidently in some danger of being broken by the obstinate predilection of each of the disputants in favor of his own calling; "and when a man has his gift from Providence, it is commonly idle to endeavor to bear up against it.†
Chpt 9
- I have seen many of her sex, and some that were great and beautiful; but never before did I meet with one in whom I thought Providence had so well balanced the different gifts.†
Chpt 9
- I have seen him so often handling his rifle with as much composure as if it were a shepherd's crook, in the midst of the heaviest showers of bullets, and under so many extraordinary circumstances, that I do not think Providence means he should ever fall in that manner.†
Chpt 10
- As for boasting, I hope I'm not a vain talker about my own exploits; but a man's gifts are his gifts, and it's flying in the face of Providence to deny them.†
Chpt 11
- He pines for things which are not of his gift and treats the bounties of Providence lightly.†
Chpt 11
- never satisfied with his own gifts, but for ever craving that which Providence denies!†
Chpt 11
- The affections are good gifts from Providence, and they that have loved one faithfully prove how much of this bounty has been lavished upon them by loving another as soon as possible.†
Chpt 11
- It is true, it is true, Mabel, no one did as much then; but—yet there is no reason I should deny my gifts which come from Providence—yes, yes; no one did as much there, but you shall know what can be done here.†
Chpt 11
- Does not the sun shine on all alike, dear uncle; and can we not feel gratitude for the blessings of Providence as strongly on this remote frontier as in our own Manhattan?†
Chpt 12
- She knows that a man has his gifts, and that it is as useless to pretend to others as to withstand them that come from Providence.†
Chpt 12
- So long as she is satisfied with me as I am, I shall not fly in the face of the gifts of Providence, by striving to become anything else.†
Chpt 12
- It may or it may not, as Providence wills.†
Chpt 12
- I am what nature and Providence have made me, and hope I'm satisfied.†
Chpt 13
- Providence has made me the daughter of a sergeant, and I am content to remain in the station in which I was born.†
Chpt 14
- Providence has placed us directly in its current, and there is no longer any danger.†
Chpt 17
- "Ay, ay, Providence is a good seaman," growled Cap, "and often helps lubbers out of difficulty.†
Chpt 17
- The tree stood, and stands still, unless the judgment of Providence has lighted on that too, in the midst of the forest, fifty miles from any settlement, but in a most extraordinary neighborhood for beaver.†
Chpt 18
- If you mean in the way of health and strength, Mabel, Providence has been kind to me; though I fancy the open air, long hunts, active scoutings, forest fare, and the sleep of a good conscience, may always keep the doctors at a distance.†
Chpt 18
- Not so, Mabel, not so; Providence makes nothing that lives to live quite alone.†
Chpt 18
- We told him of his folly, we did; and we reasoned with him on the wickedness of tempting Providence by seeking danger that led to no ind; but the youth among the Delawares are very much the same as the youth among the soldiers, risky and vain.†
Chpt 19
- If you were thought wild, half-savage, or of a frontier formation, I could tell her, ye know, that it came of the frontier, wild and half-savage life ye'd led; and all her objections must cease at once, or there would be a sort of a misunderstanding with Providence.†
Chpt 19
- We must trust in Providence, while we neglect none of its benevolent means of protecting ourselves.†
Chpt 21
- What friendly hand has a merciful Providence sent to my succor?†
Chpt 22
- bless you, June!" cried our heroine most fervently; "you are sent by Providence to be my guardian angel!"†
Chpt 22
- Submission to Providence is truly a Christian virtue!†
Chpt 23
- By such an accident, Mabel, as Providence employs to tell the hound where to find the deer and the deer how to throw off the hound.†
Chpt 23
- We are safe, I believe, from all but this heavy blow of Providence.†
Chpt 24
- If venison, or bear's meat, or even birds and fish, should ever be scarce in our cabin, it would be more likely to be owing to natur' and Providence than to any fault of mine.†
Chpt 29
Definitions:
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(1)
(providence as in: divine providence) resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky -- especially with regard to when something happened
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely providence may mean to prepare for the future. This is the sense that relates more directly to provident or improvident.