Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-08
REMARKABLE PREDICTIONS.

| REMAHlAABEE PREDICTIONS.
For tho predictions that comes true, many
hundred fails of which we never hear. Many
fond mother predicts professorship, or Judge
ship, or bishopric, for u favorite son, who,
nevertheless, sinks through the world among
the crowd of unknown people. For all that,
sundry remarkable predictions have at various
times been uttered, which have become true,
and yet nothing miraculous has been attributed
to them.
Sylla said of Caesar, when he pardoned him
at the earnest entreaty of his friends,-" You
wish his pardon-I consent; but know, that
this young man, whose life you so eagerly plead
for, will prove the most deadly enemy of the
party which you and have defended. There is
in Caesar more than Marus' The pIedic-
tion was realized.
Thomas Aquinas was so unusually simple and
reserved in conversation, that his fellow students
regarded him as very mediocre person and jocu-
larly called nim The dumb or of Sicily. His
master, Albert, not knowing himself what to
think, took occasion one day before large as
semblage to interrogate him on very profound
questions; to which the deciple replied with so
penetrating sagacity, that Albert turned to-
wards the youths who surrounded his chair, and
said-" You call brother Thomas dumb op,
but be assured that one day the noise of his doc
trines will be heard all over the world"
Erasmus wrote composition at twelve years
old, which was read by learned friend of He
gins; and he was SO struck by its merit, that
he called the youth to him, and said, scanning
him keenly, "My boy, you will one day bo a
great man."
"Sully's father predicted of him. when only
twelve years old, that he would one day be great
by reason of his courage and his virtues. Had
not the proShesy co,ae true. ww had nevsslheard
of it. Bus Sully was early put in the Way Of
promotion, and once in the road, the rest is
com paratively easy.
Cardinal Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury,
early predicted the future greatness of Sir Thom-
as More. Pointing to the boy one day, he
said to those about him. "That youth will
one day be the ornament of England"
Cardinal Wolsey, though a butcher s son, had
an early prescntment of his future great emf
nence. He used to say, that if he could but
once set foot at court, he would soon introduce
himself there. And scarcely had he obtained
admission at court, the posessor of an humble
benefce, than he did not hesitate to say, that
"henceforth there was no favors to which he
dared not aspire"
AT eighteen, Gondi, afterwards Cardinal dc
Retz composed certain "reminiscences of early
studies, on reading which, Richeliou exclaimed,
" Here's dangerous fellow"
Marshall Turenne, in his early youth, pro-
phetically foretold the distinction in arms to
which he would rise. But, doubtless, there
are few youths who enter the army, full Of
ardor and courage, who do not predict for them
selves the career of u hero and conqueror.
Milton, in his early writings, foreshadowed
his great poem, then not matured in his mind.
He declared his intention, many years before he
commenced his task, of writing some great
poem for rosterity, (which the world could
not willingly let die"
Bossuet, when u youth, was presented to
number of prelates by one of the bishops of his
church, who said of him, when he had left,
" That young man who has just gone forth, will
be one of the greatest luminaries of the church"
Mazarin, early predicted the brilliant career
of Louis XIV. lie said of him, /" He has in
him stuff for four kings " and at another time,
I" Lie may take the road little later than others,
but he will 60 uchfurther."
One day, II masof, named Barbe, said to
Madama de Mantenon, who was at that time
the wife of Scarron, After much trouble,
great king will love you ; you will reign but,
although at the summit of favor, it will be of
no benefit to you" He added some remarka-
BILE details, which appeared to cause her some
emotion. Her friends rallied her about the
predictions, when the conjurer said to them,
with the air of a man confident of the truth of
WAdt Hc bdiuy Iou VIII Do bdu w klbb tu6
hem Of her garment then, instead of amusing
yourself at her expense"
| On the other hand, Louis XIV one day OBJ
served to the Rochefoucauld and the Duo de
Crequi, " Astrology is altogether false had
my horoscope drawn in Italy; and they told me
that after having lived long time, would fall
in love with an old woman, and love her to the
end Of my days. Is there the least likelihood of
that !" And so saying, he burst into laughing
But this did not, nevertheless, hinder him from
marrying Madame de Maintenon, when she was
fifty years old So that both the predictions
of the mason and of the Italian conjuror came
true at last
When Voltaire was engaged in the study of
classical learning, the father Lepy was once
very much irritated by the insolence of his re-
partees, and taking him by the collar, shook
him roughly. saying, Wretchcd youth you
will some day be the standard of deism in
France" Father Palu, Vo.tsirs's sonfessor.