foreknowledge

• This miraculous foreknowledge was accompanied by actions as surprising; and without speaking of a dead infant, which Xavier restored to life, but whose resurrection is without circumstances in the acts of the saint's canonization, he cleared the country of the tygers, which laid it waste. —  The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI.
• Think (he used to say) of a being who would make a Hell—who would create the human race with the infallible foreknowledge, and therefore with the intention, that the great majority of them were to be consigned to horrible and everlasting torment. —  Autobiography
• You are powerless even with foreknowledge, a slave to some advanced hardwiring in your subconscious. —  Just One Look
• But we are not granted such foreknowledge, and I, who tired of the yearning in my blood that ever grew unassuaged, was glad enough with my end of the bargain. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
• Isn't it right that he should know—that he should live his life with full foreknowledge, and do his duty even so Tarco grabbed my hand. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003

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