"Seer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... call the essential properties of matter-space, time, passibility, motion; setting forth phrenology and mesmerism as the great organs of education, even of the regeneration of mankind; apologising for the earlier ravings of the Poughkeepsie seer, and considering his later eclectico-pantheist farragos as great utterances: while, whenever he talked of Nature, he showed the most credulous craving after everything which we, the countrymen of Bacon, have been taught to consider unscientific-Homoeopathy, ...
— Phaethon • Charles Kingsley
... seer was silent. Then he continued: "Pardon me, Flaccus, but I am poorly, and must ride home before the mists rise from ...
— Historical Miniatures • August Strindberg
... employed to express the title of prophet:—Ambassador, Faithful, Servant, Messenger, Seer, Watchman, Seer of Vision, Dreamer, ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various
... were only a little stronger in me," she said to herself, "I should lose the sense of what that vision really was, and take it for a prophetic light. I might in time get to be a seer of visions myself, like the Suora Maddalena, and Camilla Rucellai, ...
— Romola • George Eliot
... in very truth the ancient oracles have come upon me. There lived here a soothsayer, a noble man and a mighty, Telemus, son of Eurymus, who surpassed all men in soothsaying, and waxed old as a seer among the Cyclopes. He told me that all these things should come to pass in the aftertime, even that I should lose my eyesight at the hand of Odysseus. But I ever looked for some tall and goodly man to come hither, clad in ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.
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