The laboriousness of the French, as well as the encouragement they receive from their government, are above all praise, and should be our own shame; but their prolixity now and then defeats the object.
We must, indeed, watch a harvest from beginning to end to realise the laboriousness of a farmer's life here.
It is impossible to give any idea of the thrift and laboriousness of the better order of working classes here.
If tenant-farming does not pay in England, it certainly can only do so in France by means of a laboriousness and economy of which we have hardly an idea.
Mendicity is forbidden in the Jura as in the Department of the Doubs, and there is little real pinching poverty to be found among the rural population, though of course a laboriousness and economy unknown among our own.
On every side we have evidence of the tremendous natural resources and indefatigable laboriousness of the people.
We have said that, considering the indefatigable laboriousness which distinguishes the Germans, it would not be strange if they had read the scholastics.
It would not be strange if some moderns, particularly Germans, whose laboriousness is proverbial, especially in matters of erudition, had read them.
His laboriousness had the appearance of something stupendous, when there were many literary but few very learned men.
