The kinds of information it transmits are of an astronomical type, as evidenced in the following example: "it [the agent intellect] knows how many revolutions of the sun, or of the diurnal sphere, or of any other sphere [have transpired] from the time at which someone, who falls under a particular pattern, had a particular level of good or ill fortune…" (Wars, II.6, p. 64).
Somehow, the church stays open through mixed fortunes during war, depression, and war.
Thompson achieved another breakthrough in 1987, when she had leading roles in two television miniseries: Fortunes of War, a World War II drama co-starring Kenneth Branagh, and Tutti Frutti, a dark-comedy about a Scottish rock band with Robbie Coltrane.
In the economic and political realm, fortunes and wars materialize mysteriously and remotely; face-time and the personal accountability it might bring are all but obsolete.
Genghis Khan started his victorious career as a solitary fugitive, and his first followers were men who, like himself, lacked any powerful kindred ties because their clans had met with ill fortune in war.
Despite the influence on Italy's fortunes of wars involving France, Austria and Prussia (the German chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, claimed that Italy sprang from three battles beginning with "S": Solferino, Sadowa and Sedan), unification was achieved with little fighting.
In traditional long forms of cricket, played over three, four or five days, bad weather has historically been regarded as a fortune of war, leading to legendary ill luck, as when the Hampshire team was denied an English county championship in 1974 when its last four days of play were rained out.
Preston reports him saying, at the moment of his rescue from the wreck where more than a thousand had perished, "What bad luck.... What have I done to deserve this?" Ashore in Queenstown (now Cobh), he remarked, with rather unbecoming detachment, "Well, it is the fortune of war".
This is a fanciful biography of the martial artist, Master Ip Man (1893-1972), an exponent of the Wing Chun style of kung fu, who lost his fortune when war broke out between China and Japan, managed to survive the Occupation, and later became Bruce Lee's mentor in Hong Kong.
Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War.
The capture of the USS Chesapeake by the HMS Shannon features prominently in the sixth Aubrey-Maturin novel, The Fortune of War, by Patrick O'Brian.
