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  • To the contrary, prevoyance was the ability to prepare for the unexpected in a world of danger and uncertainty.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • To the contrary, prevoyance was the ability to prepare for the unexpected in a world of danger and uncertainty.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • But she still hopes it will be in this month, that she may lose no reputation in point of prevoyance, which would be a pity.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • But she still hopes it will be in this month, that she may lose no reputation in point of prevoyance, which would be a pity.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • Which prevoyance had been coped with successfully by Nina, who, noticing it, at first took merely a perverse pleasure in foiling

    The Younger Set 1899

  • “I have got conveyed,” he says in a distressing letter from Newark to Hall Stevenson ” “I have got conveyed thus far like a bale of cadaverous goods consigned to Pluto and Company, lying in the bottom of my chaise most of the route, upon a large pillow which I had the prevoyance to purchase before I set out.

    Sterne Traill, H D 1882

  • All these elements were important parts of Champlain’s leadership—so much so that this idea of prevoyance appeared even in the first sentence of his will and testament.12

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • All these elements were important parts of Champlain’s leadership—so much so that this idea of prevoyance appeared even in the first sentence of his will and testament.12

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

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