Since lice are brethren to a Scot: Which made our swarm of sects determine Employments for their brother vermin.
The subject's most loyal That hates the blood royal, And they for employments have merit, Who swear queen and steeple Were made by the people, And neither have right to inherit.
Christ was soon to return, and the employments and labours and pleasures of this age were of small concern.
Cossacks, son of Michael Chmielnicki, was born at Subatow, near Chigirin in the Ukraine, an estate given to the elder Chmielnicki for his lifelong services to the Polish crown.
But, when your situation will admit of it, I would advise you to take a portion of your exercise in those domestic employments which require vigorous exertion.
Their daily employments become irksome; and they are tempted even to neglect the interests of their employers, with the plea, that the service of God has the first claim upon them.
What has been my frame of spirit, while engaged in the employments of the day?
As the morning is in many respects most favorable, you would do well to spend as much time as you can in your closet, before engaging in the employments of the day.
It is also very suitable, when we suspend our worldly employments in the middle of the day, to refresh our bodies, to renew our visit to the fountain of life, that our souls may also be refreshed.
Before service commences, it unfits the mind for the solemn employmentsin which you are about to engage.
They might have gone quietly to their work; pursued their employments with calmness and serenity; and at the close of the day laid themselves down to rest, with the satisfaction of having discharged every duty.
She immediately recognized the great principle that "we are not our own," and acted upon it; and life became from that hour devoted to holy employments and useful pursuits.
Her childhood was passed within sight of the home which contained the friends, and around which clustered the employments and pursuits, of Harriet Newell.
The employments of industry, connected with navigation and commercial enterprise, are precious to the people of that quarter of the country, by ancient prejudice, not less than recent profit.
The case might be a hard one; but there were hundreds of cases at least equally so, and cases too in which the sufferers had not, as General Hamilton had, subsequently enjoyed lucrative employments by the favor of his country.
In short his mind was so transported back to his rural employments and amusements, that he sighed when his carriage stopped opposite to the old hackney-coach, which Archibald had kept in attendance at the place where they had left it.
Other passions are appealed to only now and again, but our employments touch this passion at all points.
Copying and painting were certainly favouriteemployments in the monasteries; but either the requirements of the special community were principally kept in view, or it was chiefly a question of ecclesiastical and devotional books.
In the midst of all his employments he remembered every single plantation on his estates, and when his peasants came to him he conversed with them about them.
One of the unanswerable criticisms of the draft has been that it takes men from the farms and from all useful employments and marches them past crowds of idlers and loafers away to the Army.
I am far from intending to persuade my countrymen to quit all otheremployments for that of manuring the ground.
Whatever a man's intellectual pursuits may be, he has the advantage over the mere man of fashion of being engaged in employments which the longest life cannot exhaust.
Easily a hundred thousand children at work in New York, in all sorts of employments unsuitable and injurious.
My chief employments in the body of Mr. Arthur Megrim were eating and sleeping; and I certainly should have done nothing else, had I been allowed to follow my own humours.
These are wholesome and agreeable employments even for those who have passed that time of life when a taste for books and art may be acquired.
They add: "It must be remembered, however, that temptations to dissipation are not tendered to the youth of the Highlands by sporting employments only.
The adjustment takes place through the spontaneous movement of capital and labor from employments that yield small returns to those that give larger ones.
Claudius, who was born in Lyon and educated in Gaul, opened to the Gauls all the employments and dignities of the empire.
With respect to the employments of a soldier, a senator, and a judge, which are evidently necessary to the community, shall they be allotted to different persons, or shall the same person execute both?
Scarce a day or night passed over but some dismal thing or other happened at the end of that Harrow Alley, which was a place full of poor people, most of them belonging to the butchers or to employments depending upon the butchery.
I was once making a list of all such, I mean of all those professions and employments who thus died, as I call it, in the way of their duty; but it was impossible for a private man to come at a certainty in the particulars.
How many thousands are born qualified for the coarse employments of life, for one who is capable of excelling in the fine arts!
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