But the atheist will say that the laborerof the olden time did not work, and got along by hook or crook; that, as it was a miracle if he lived with such wages, anyway, he had every inducement to become a vagabond.
Let us, then, put ourlaborer in England in the year 1350.
In this land of freedom and plenty the day laborer gets $1.
Israel, for the last eight months, sojourning as a laborer on a farm in Windsor, enrolled himself in the regiment of Colonel John Patterson of Lenox, afterwards General Patterson.
Looking around he saw a farm-laborer with a pitchfork coming at a distance into view, whose steps seemed bent in a direction not far from the spot where he lay.
This man, who was more than fifty years old, was the first manual laborer to be advised to observe a morning fast.
In these classes should be embraced such articles of necessity as are in general use, and especially such as are consumed by the laborer and poor as well as by the wealthy citizen.
It even happened that a certain giganticlaborer threw himself under the chariot of the viceroy.
They wore mantles, but every laborer wore just such a dress on holidays.
At the head of this band went a laborer of gigantic stature, with a torch in his hand.
The high priest Sem loved Ramses; so he answered with a kindly smile, "What laborer is there in Egypt who would not like to have a slave, and abandon hard labor for sweet idleness?
I am Bakura, a laborer in the regiment of diggers in Sochem.
If any man strangled that laborer at command of the nomarch, he will not confess; the laborer himself is dead, and will not say anything; besides, what would his complaint against the nomarch amount to?
A laborer who receives wages is more cheerful and does more work than a slave, even though beaten with whips of iron.
Rest every seventh day will give fifty days to each laborer during a year, or it will take from his lord fifty drachma.
Nor had he that patience of spirit which would permit of his ever becoming a humble laborer with the pen of the "pot-boiler.
As the first laborer passed this, one--nay, several of us pounced upon him, for all plans we had laid to line up and take turns were thus quickly overthrown and wild competition soon reigned.
The early train had brought in on suspicion a Spanish laborer of twenty or twenty-two; a pretty, girlish chap with huge blue eyes over which hung long black lashes like those painted on Nurnberg dolls.
A few months before, I remembered, a Spanish laborer killed in a dynamite explosion in the "cut" had turned out to be one of Spain's most celebrated lawyers.
Every crime reported receives full investigation, be it only a Greek laborer losing a pair of trousers or-- There was the case that fell to me early in May, for instance.
We welcome Mrs. Stowe, then, as an honored fellow-laborer in the highest and best of causes; and I am much mistaken if this tone of welcome be not by far the most congenial to her own feelings.
The steam engine cannot work without its coal, nor the laborer without his food; nor will a flame go on burning without its fuel of some kind or other.
In the silk districts of Europe, agricultural machinery is very much less employed than with us, and in general every woman who can possibly be spared from other work is a field laborer and valuable as such.
About dawn, while the Indians were still asleep, a laborer in the employ of the farmer came in with a lantern, and Jogues, who spoke no Dutch, gave him to understand by signs that he needed his help and guidance.
The man called Frank, the one who had been honoring Nora with his regard, came forward with a hand outstretched to help her alight, while another man, the ordinary type of English laborer placed himself at the horses' heads.
Hereafter no person who is appointed as a laborer or workman, without examination under the civil-service rules, shall be assigned to work of the same grade as that performed by classified employees.
In this era every branch of labor is an art, and sometimes it is necessary for the laborer to be both an artist and a scientific person.
Since the commencement of this century, the wages of a common farm laborer in America have increased seventy-five or one hundred per cent.
The great contribution of learning to the laborer is its power, under the lead of Christianity, to break down the unnatural distinctions of society, and to render labor of every sort, among all classes, acceptable and honorable.
Is any one willing to give an ignorant farm laborer as much as he is ready to pay for the services of an intelligent man?
Or, in other words, is it of any consequence to the employer whether the laborer is ignorant or intelligent?
Will any one say that all this inures to capital, and leaves the laborer comparatively unrewarded?
The wolf wanders among the fearless lambs; the wood scatters its rural leaves for thee, and the laborer rejoices to have beaten the hated ground in triple dance.
If you do not take yourself away in an instant, you shall go [and make] a ninth laborer at my Sabine estate.
The crafty Braun, once a co-laborer with Magdal, had jumped eagerly at the opportunity of burying the identity of Hugo Landor, the criminal fugitive, under the banner of the hopelessly wrecked Magdal.
And but twenty-four hours later the open switch left unguarded by a drunken laborer had sent a thundering special crashing into Hugh Worthington's special car.
His shoes were wrapped in coarse bagging, which was tied to his feet with cords, and when he held out his hands to warm them, I saw that they were bruised and cracked, and I was sure he had been working as a laborer during his long absence.
I worked for a time as a laborer in a mill, to become familiar with its workings, and I bribed the head man to teach me at night.
When it was found that the negro made the cheapest laborerfor cultivating the plantation many more were imported.
Where is the laborer of to-day who is furnished his house, clothing, doctors, medicine, and not a little pocket money on occasions?
Now, why can not the schoolgirl run the locomotive, the laborer the railroad?
Take a laborer from his pick and shovel on the railway embankment and put him at the desk of the general manager.
What the black laborer needs is careful personal guidance, group leadership of men with hearts in their bosoms, to train them to foresight, carefulness, and honesty.
Thus we have a laborer without capital and without wages, and an employer whose capital is largely his employees' wages.
Lastly, among such conditions of life there are few incentives to make the laborer become a better farmer.
The very laborer in the streets felt his toil less keenly than she, as she watched the drops gather on his brow.
Every laborer is patient at his task because he cherishes a hope that some day he will be a millionnaire.
In all save temporarily fortunate countries with sparse population the laborer would have been glad indeed to exchange the right to leave his employer for a guarantee that he would not be discharged by him.
