contriver

Example Sentences

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Then Jehovah had a dream in which the Contriver of all creation spoke to him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert Boyle asked: And how will it be prov’d, that the Omniscient God, or that admirable Contriver, Nature, can exhibit Phaenomena by no wayes, but such as are explicable, by the dim Reason of Man?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Even if we could discover a predominance of benevolence in the creation, we should still regard the mingled attributes of nature as a reflex of the mingled attributes of its Contriver.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

It is the prevailing of Wisdom over Accident; and it, in turn, both produces and is the Glory and Laudation of the Great Infinite Contriver, whose plan is thus Successful and Victorious.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

I do beseech your grace not to think me Contriver of Antonio's 'scape from death; 'Twas my disloyal daughter's breach of duty.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert