incertainty

The rich grew in a moment poor, and the poor as suddenly became rich; so that it seemed a philosopher could nowhere have so well instructed his pupils in the contempt of riches, at least he could nowhere have better inculcated the incertainty of their duration.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

That the two contemplative ways have some resemblance with the old parable of the two moral ways, the one beginning with incertainty and difficulty, and ending in plainness and certainty, and the other beginning with shew of plainness and certainty, and ending in difficulty and incertainty.

Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature 2003

"It seems prudent with so much incertainty for Americans to take every precaution they can, including staying at home," one department official said, adding that Washington still had no independent confirmation of Kabila's death.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

He hammers too much in general upon our opinion's incertainty, and the possibility of erring makes him not venture on what is true.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

The rich grew in a moment poor, and the poor as suddenly became rich; so that it seemed a philosopher could nowhere have so well instructed his pupils in the contempt of riches, at least he could nowhere have better inculcated the incertainty of their duration.

XII. In Which the Man of the Hill Continues His History. Book VIII 1917

Page 45 the LAND, and the Rights and Privileges of the subject, by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniences have arisen and happened, and much incertainty, by means of such proceedings, hath been conceived concerning men's rights and estates; for settling whereof and Preventing the like in time to come,

Message of His Excellency Joseph E. Brown, to the Extra Session of the Legislature, Convened March 10th, 1864, Upon the Currency Act; Secret Sessions of Congress; The Late Conscription Act; The Unconstitionality of the Act Suspending the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, in Cases of Illegal Arrests Made by the President; The Causes of the War and Manner of Conducting It; And the Terms Upon Which Peace Should be Sought &c. 1857-1865: Brown 1864

Page 48 the LAND, and the Rights and Privileges of the subject, by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniences have arisen and happened, and much incertainty, by means of such proceedings, hath been conceived concerning men's rights and estates; for settling whereof and Preventing the like in time to come,

Journal of the Senate at an Extra Session of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Convened Under the Proclamation of the Governor, March 10th, 1864. Georgia. General Assembly. Senate 1864

If it be admitted however that war, on the fairest prospects, is still exposed to incertainties, I weigh against this the greater incertainty of the duration of a peace bought with money, from such a people, from a Dey 80. years old, and by a nation who, on the hypothesis of buying peace, is to have no power on the sea to enforce an observance of it.

Letters 1760

He himself spoke in the other House for the address (though professing incertainty about the treaties themselves), against my Lord

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

The rich grew in a moment poor, and the poor as suddenly became rich; so that it seemed a philosopher could nowhere have so well instructed his pupils in the contempt of riches, at least he could nowhere have better inculcated the incertainty of their duration.

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730