As the war with Spain was inevitable, and as, when it broke out in the following year (1762), it was followed by triumphs for which Pitt had prepared the way, the prescience of the great war-minister appeared to be fully established.
With respect to His prescience, there is nothing contingent; with respect to His providence, there is nothing accidental.
Brown had the prescience to realize that the public places greater trust in bankers to look after their money, than politicians.
Tomei followed that up with her splashy on screen prescience in the film My Cousin Vinny.
In his last candidature at Wycombe he stood on more independent ground, commending himself by a series of speeches which fully displayed his quality, though the prescience which gemmed them with more than one prophetic passage was veiled from his contemporaries.
