Antedatings in The Yale Book of Quotations - 31: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Stephen Goranson wrote:

> ...may be in an unlooked-for way a progress towards reunions, a prophecy, a
> self- fulfilling prophecy, of a Catholic Church reviving.
>
> Pages 223-4 in The seven gifts. Addressed to the Diocese Canterbury in His
> Primary Visitation. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. By Edward White (Benson)

Here's earlier:

1867 _Times_ (London) 4 May 9 (Times Digital Archive)  Burke ... is
impatient to tread the scaffold on which he will deliver the last
self-fulfilling prophecy.

Fred Shapiro


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