This is nearly 11 per cent of the entire population employed in gainful pursuits.
That same year 11 per cent of all the people engaged in all gainful pursuits in Massachusetts were idle; the next year 15 per cent of all those engaged in the three principal industries aside from agriculture were idle in Illinois.
For always my heart within my breast shuddered, for fear lest some man should come and deceive me with his words, for many they be that devise gainful schemes and evil.
But I deem not that this device of thine will be gainfulto us twain, so I bid thee to give heed.
O how loth is a wicked man to let go a sweet, a gainful sin, when he hath hold of it!
Or was his calling so gainful to him as always to keep his purse's belly full, though he was himself a great spender?
For a gainful purpose the merchant is occasionally absent from his office; for a gainful purpose a scholar of mine may omit a recitation.
The following may be specified: (a) Laws prohibiting the employment of children below fourteen in all gainful pursuits.
If the woman cannot leave her home for the entire day, or if her husband regards a gainful occupation on her part as a reflection upon his ability to "support the family," she is practically shut out from any occupation.
If both husband and wife carry on gainful occupations, well; if one is occupied outside the home and the other within, well also.
Remember how gainful the redeeming of time is, and how exceeding comfortable in the review!
Do but mark well how much the devil gets by keeping you in sad, despondent thoughts; and then you may easily see that it cannot be your duty, nor best for you, which is so gainful and pleasing to the devil.
I say, before he can be brought to see his glorious robes are filthy rags, and his gainful things but loss and dung (Isa 64; Phil 3).
It is no small advantage, you know, when men have to deal in difficult matters, to have a patent or license to deal; now to trust in the Lord is a difficult thing, yet the best and most gainful of all.
Statistics tell us that there are at present over eight million women in this country engaged in gainful occupations.
There is wide disagreement as to the answer to the question why so many women are engaged in gainful employments.
Hence the youth are dragged up in ignorance of every gainful art, and obliged to become soldiers, or servants, or thieves, for a subsistence.
The most decisive set of facts is the growth in the number of whites and Negroes in gainful occupations in Southern cities.
The small wages of the men and the number of women engaged in gainful occupations (See Chapter IV) show that the women must help earn the daily bread for the family.
This includes children and some other family members not in gainful occupations.
On the one hand it is a trade, carried on chiefly for gain; and from this the element of exploit is virtually absent, or it is at any rate not present in a sufficient degree to clear the pursuit of the imputation of gainful industry.
The Census figures for the year 1910 report one-fifth of all women employed in gainful occupations as engaged in the pursuit of agriculture and animal husbandry] Agriculture.
No girl need waste the knowledge and skill gained in industrial life when she abandons gainful occupation for the home.
Gainful occupation has then much to recommend it and little to be said against it as part of the training for matrimony.
For my own part I openly declare that I am not convinced, and that I do not believe injustice to be moregainful than justice, even if uncontrolled and allowed to have free play.
You say that perfect injustice is more gainfulthan perfect justice?
Among the whites 59 per cent are in gainful occupations, among the Negroes 66 per cent.
The generality of white women in New York, wives of laboring men, infrequently engage in gainful occupations.
There is a gainful occupation for women, black and white, too important to be left unnoticed.
With the colored, among the women forty-five years of age and over, 53 per cent, more than half, still engage in gainful toil.
