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The household now included the original live-in team plus a part-time laundress and a Spanish-speaking maid, Providencia “Provi” Paredes.
American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007
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The household now included the original live-in team plus a part-time laundress and a Spanish-speaking maid, Providencia “Provi” Paredes.
American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007
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If this afternoon were typical, then July in Provi - dence must be a close approximation to Hell.
True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984
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Very much later though, mostly in response to Islamic occasionalism, the counterargu - ment was fashioned that it is noncontinuity and inde - terminacy which bespeak the absence of divine Provi - dence; and that it is continuity and causality in nature which testify to a rule by Providence and perhaps even to an original creation by a divine resolve.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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Hume stresses the instrumental character of conceptions of justice, and from Butler to Adam Smith there is the assurance that the unseen hand of Provi - dence will guarantee that each man's pursuit of his own good will produce an effect of enhancement on others 'good.
RIGHT AND GOOD ABRAHAM EDEL 1968
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David Kubrin, “Newton and the Cyclical Universe, Provi - dence and the Mechanical Philosophy,” Journal of the His - tory of Ideas, 28 (1967), 325-46; Maurice Mandelbaum,
Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIS DONEY 1968
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It was in the last major chapter of this volume that he put forward what he called his “Provi - sional Hypothesis of Pangenesis.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas PETER VORZIMMER 1968
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Provi dence has favoured them so far, on the whole; but one day it may leave them in the lurch, as it did the anti-scientific
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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He would have been on more solid ground noting the number of times Smith has been out with the cross-batted slog that caused his fateful dismissal in the ODI against Zimbabwe at Provi-dence.
Stabroek News Tony Cozier 2010
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All eight of the visiting NCAA tournament teams can't leave Provi - dence as winners, but their fans can't lose when it comes to Providence and its
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