The predictions of Harrington and De Foe are precisely such as we might expect from a petty calculator, a political economist, who can see nothing farther than immediate results; but the true philosophical predictor was Child, who had read the past.
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Isaac Disraeli
Even when the event does not always justify the prediction, the predictor may not have been the less correct in his principles of divination.
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Isaac Disraeli
The answer of the predictor was not less awful: "I am an old man, and shall not live to see them; but you are a young woman, and probably will see them."
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Isaac Disraeli