All 14 Uses
providence
in
1776, by McCullough
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- He would trust to Providence and his high sense of duty.†
p. 6.3 *providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan; or lucky
- A newly completed bastion at Cobble Hill, below Prospect Hill and fully a half mile nearer to Boston, was described in the Providence Gazette as "the most perfect piece of fortification that the American army has constructed during the present campaign."†
p. 67.3
- Heaven hath decreed that tottering empire Britain to irretrievable ruin and thanks to God, since Providence hath so determined, America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons....Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof.†
p. 68.3
- If I shall be able to rise superior to these, and many other difficulties which might be enumerated, I shall most religiously believe that the finger of Providence is in it, to blind the eyes of our enemies; for surely if we get well through this month, it must be for want of their knowing the disadvantages we labor under.†
p. 79.9
- As he had often before in his life, Washington eased the stress of waiting by catching up with his correspondence, writing again to Joseph Reed and to a young black poet, Phillis Wheatley, then living in Providence, who had sent him a poem written in his honor: "Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side / Thy every action let the goddess guide."†
p. 90.2
- If it be determined in thy Providence that thousands of our fellow creatures shall this day be slain, let thy wrath be appeased, and in mercy grant that victory be on the side of our suffering, bleeding country.†
p. 95.6
- FAST RIDERS CARRIED THE NEWS to Providence and Newport, Hartford and New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, then on to Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, 1, Too arduous miles from Boston.†
p. 108.3
- He did not "lament or repine at any act of Providence," he told Joseph Reed, for "in great measure" he had become a convert to the view of the poet Alexander Pope that "whatever is, is right."†
p. 110.8
- On April 5, the day the commander paraded into Providence, it seemed all Rhode Island had come to catch sight of him.†
p. 116.1
- "We have nothing, my dear sir, to depend upon, but the protection of a kind Providence and unanimity among ourselves," he wrote to John Adams from his Broadway headquarters.†
p. 120.2
- Incredibly, yet again, circumstances— fate, luck, Providence, the hand of God, as would be said so often—intervened.†
p. 191.1
- While one writer in the New England Chronicle declared, "Providence favored us," another in the Massachusetts Spy assured his readers that the defeat on Long Island and consequent distress were "loud speaking testimonies of the displeasure and anger of Almighty God against a sinful people."†
p. 196.6
- Now, in the dismal aftermath of defeat, the idea of risking the fate of America in defense of New York seemed so senseless that submitting to the "dispensations of Providence," as he said, was about the only recourse left.†
p. 201.8
- Writing privately, however, he allowed to Lund Washington that "Providence, or some good honest fellow, has done more for us than we were disposed to do for ourselves."†
p. 223.6
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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(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.