"Unforeseen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... although it did not form it. It would be well if but a hundredth part of the pains now taken by parents were given to interference with the life of the child and the rest of the ninety and nine employed in leading, without interference, in acting as an unforeseen, an invisible providence through which the child obtains experience, from which he may draw his own conclusions. The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions, and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. ...
— The Education of the Child • Ellen Key
... would have turned out as they had expected, but for an unforeseen event which delayed the women in their operations until too late—at least ...
— The Walrus Hunters - A Romance of the Realms of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... I was not inattentive to the progress of time. Methought my companion was remarkably dilatory. He went merely to relight his candle, but certainly he might, during this time, have performed the operation ten times over. Some unforeseen accident might occasion ...
— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown
... clothes, she inspected the outposts herself at night, she watched and encouraged the soldiers in all exposed places, and was saved several times only by the speed of her horse in unforeseen attacks. One night she rode out, oppressed with care, having just received information that the enemy was about to attempt an entrance into the city by means of bribery that night, and with intent to massacre all; and ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... years passed, and by one of the unforeseen changes that occur in the lives of business men, we were obliged to relinquish our childhood home, and go forth to try the rougher usage of the world in a land of strangers. Sad were the feelings that filled our young ...
— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna
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