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Not an honest expression, tainting the movie scene quality of truths you need from us your faithful nanny your allwise maid your supernatural caddy
9/11 Maggie Jochild 2007
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But the Gods seldom permit human Happiness to be compleat, least, perhaps, we should forget them, the Donors, and fix our Affections too much on these terrestrial Objects; and therefore their allwise Providence mixes something amongst our most happy Moments, that may mind us on our
Exilius 2008
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Exchange falls in America or the Specie is remitted, but as this is not allwise the Case, they generally chuse good Bills & give the full Value for them rather than be at the trouble of Remitting the Cash. 42
Leslie V. Brock: The Colonial Currency, Prices, and Exchange Rates New York 1992
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If you are in awe of legislatures and you think that they are allwise while the Courts are stupid, you will want to resist this development.
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The heart must be open to receive the genial influences, which are thus mysteriously communicated; the will must submissively bow under the dispensations of an allwise
Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York John Lyth
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We see the people of the tropics indulging largely in fruit, which an allwise Providence has placed there and adapted to their wants; again, at the poles the inhabitants live almost wholly on the fat of animals -- a half-dozen tallow candles being eaten at a meal, when supplied by strangers.
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Why hadnt the allwise scientists remembered and taken them into account before the bomb was dropped?
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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But thanks to an allwise and merciful Providence which at the last moment withheld the hand and changed
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This is the gist of Agur's reasoning against the allwise theologians of the Jewish Church.
The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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I can look back on my short life, and I can see the hand of an allwise and merciful Father, shaping events, ever for my good.
Story of Chester Lawrence Nephi Anderson 1894
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