superintendence

• “Spiritual superintendence is a superintendence of a body.”

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• “Oversight or superintendence is evidently implied.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “That Luke wrote his Gospel during this period, under the apostle's superintendence, is the not unlikely conjecture of able critics.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “Cooking, or at least its superintendence, is another of their pastimes, especially among the Kajjar ladies.”

  Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

• “Of the article superintendence, which is only L500,”

  The Absentee

• “(6d. or 7d.); the attendance, that is, the superintendence of the guardian, two drachmas a-day; the supply of water, fifteen leptas daily; the physician, a drachma; and another drachma on leaving, for which he inspects the whole party, and examines the state of their health.”

  A Woman's Journey Round the World

• “This "superintendence" is a most unsatisfactory system, -- temporary and unprogressive in every element.”

  Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)

• “It is difficult to account exactly for the causes of this inactivity, but I should be inclined to think some blame attaches to its government, as here are no traces of that beneficial superintendence which is so perceptible at Berne, This city cannot even boast of a public library.”

  A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium

• “In the English tables of the cost of drainage by the Drainage Companies, an estimate of $1.25 per acre is usually put down for "superintendence," which includes the engineering and the supervision of the whole process of opening, laying and filling, securing outfalls, and every other process till the work is completed.”

  Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles

• “They are restrained by the constant, vigilant, and interested superintendence which is exercised over them, from the commission of offenses of greater magnitude -- even if they were disposed to them -- which I am satisfied they are not.”

  Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject

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