After the successful laboursof Severinus (§ 76, 6) the history of the Danubian provinces is shrouded in thick darkness.
Francke began his charitablelabours with seven florins; but with undaunted faith he started his Orphanage, writing over its door the words of Isaiah xl.
They were hated by the Obscurantist Jesuits for their successful labours for the improvement of Catholic education, especially in Poland and Austria, and also because they objected to all participation in political schemes.
These faithful men found the reward of their labours in the crown of martyrdom.
The missionary labours of Bishop Piligrim of Passau, as well as the introduction of Christian foreigners, especially Germans, soon gave to Christianity a preponderance throughout the country over paganism.
By the labours of the monks, however, the church is at last purified and brought forth triumphant, and the life of holy contemplation becomes universal.
The greatest and most enduring service was rendered to the study of holy scripture by his pioneer labours in this direction.
After his entrance into the Catholic Church his labours in the domain of church history were limited to a voluminous history of Gregory VII.
Damascenus collected the results of previous =Dogmatic= labours in the Greek church by the use of the dialectic forms of Aristotle into an organic system.
After that Methodius extended his missionarylabours into Bohemia.
Of the later labours and fortunes of Paul’s fellow-workers we know absolutely nothing.
All his thoughts, labours and endeavours are dominated by a steadfast conviction that the pope is the head and representative of the church in which alone salvation can be found.
The labours of this school and its opponents have done signal service in the cause of science.
The signs of the Zodiac were frequently sculptured on the exterior of ancient churches, presenting a sort of rural calendar for the labours of the field each month in the year, which was of practical use.
The porch of the Virgin at Notre Dame at Paris has a number of compartments representing the zodiacal signs and the labours of the different months.
Spring brought new occupation; household labours began to increase in number and measure; her leisure times were shortened.
It follows, therefore, that if the universal suzerainty of an Imperial head had been admitted even in bare theory, the labours of Grotius would have been idle.
The coincidence of their labours with those which a more precise philosophy would have counselled has been part of the good fortune of mankind.
Its great alluvial plain traversed by large rivers drawing an unfailing supply of water from the Himalayan snows affords an ideal field for the labours of the canal engineer.
In the same manner the labours of the mind have been saved, in a thousand ways, by other contrivances of science.
Every one who labours at all profitablylabours for the production of utility, and sets in motion the labour of others.
The mental labours attendant upon the provincial newspapers are more narrowed.
Without security they could not have accumulated--without accumulations they could not have exchanged--without exchanges they could not have carried forward theirlabours with any compensating productiveness.
The farmer has no funds to employ in such labours; he is paying a great deal more than he paid before for the same, or a less, amount of work, because his labourers choose to do certain labourswith rude tools instead of perfect ones.
The sloth hangs upon the branches of a tree, but he labours till he has devoured all the leaves, and then climbs another tree.
This accumulation of the means of existence, and of all that makes existence comfortable, is principally resulting from the labours of those who have gone before us.
Nor is there any neglect in the labours that wait upon the work of the compositors.
And not long afterwards, those bags of straw, from which they sprang at sunrise, received for another night their human burden, worn out with the labours and the revels of the day.
Choose ye now him who is boldest among you and let him perform the labours I shall set.
Whilst the morning breezes blow, Through the burning sultry noon, And till evening dews descend, Still he works and labours on.
Uninterrupted, save for a moment, by strife and ambition, he prosecuted his literary labours till the extreme term of his prolonged existence.
He also resumed Varro, and attentively revised his former labours on that author(634).
Merula then compares his toil, in amending the corrupt text, to the labours of Hercules.
It may be supposed, that in the evenings after the agricultural labours of the morning, and after his friends had left him, he noted down the precepts suggested by the observations and experience of the day.
The hundred and sixty-two chapters, of which his work consists, seem so many rules committed to writing, as the daily labours of the field suggested.
He then proceeds to attack the other positions of Velleius, with regard to the form of the gods, and their exemption from the labours of creation and providence.
What would Cato the Censor, distinguished for his industry and unceasing attention to the labours of the field, have thought of the following lines of Horace?
At length his ponderous edition came out with a preface, giving a full detail of the labours of others and his own, and with the prefaces to the most celebrated preceding editions.
Once more provided with funds, he recommenced his labours with all the zeal and enthusiasm of a young man.
These gentlemen began their laboursby publishing an address to all magnetisers, inviting them to come forward and exhibit in their presence the wonders of animal magnetism.
A gallant writer tells us that he hopes to be rewarded for his labours in the field of literature by "the sweetest of all sounds in nature--the laughter of fair women.
His health and strength were still unaffected by the labours of his life.
For the great mass of the population, the working substratum, whose labours sustained the life of the nation, the Norman Conquest made but little change.
This practitioner combined the practise of agriculture on a small scale with that of physic, and young Crabbe had to take his share in the labours of the farm.
It must be a great relief to him to be freed from his mechanical labours in a provincial town, and to find himself in a more extended circle.
I dedicate this result of my editorial labours to you, because you were dear to our friend who is dead, and are almost the only person now alive, save myself, who knew him at the time these papers were written.
He had returned to my father's neighbourhood resolved, not only to be a poet, but to meet the social labours of journalism.
If the labours of the men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will sleep then no more than at present.
To say the truth, however, it had never once occurred to me to think of literary labours as a source of profit.
The pope reaped the fruits of the labours and combats of Italy.
King Pepin returned into France, than the Lombard king forgets his oaths, lays waste the environs of Rome, andlabours to become master of the city.
Now under the popes of the twelfth century it was not much extended: they knew not how to reap the fruits of the labours of Gregory VII.
A new spirit was infused by the election of the new members, but even these were afraid to launch out and engage more organizers and extend our borders into other counties, but decided to confine my labours to the Eastern Counties.
During the autumn I confined mylabours to Norfolk.
There is, however, a secret behind all this and a reason for the success that has crowned my labours although late in life.
As a reward for the labours of the office the overseer is in possession of a larger share in land, and receives taxes from the villagers, one or two handfuls, as a rule, from every measure of corn or rice in the harvest.
Even the outbreak of a war did not disturb his employment; under the protection of the kings he carried on his labours quietly.
Magadha, and consequently under the protection of king Kalacoka; their labours are said to have lasted eight months.
The labours of government are relieved by the pleasures of the chase.
The work was chiefly done by men; the women planting the seed, husking the corn, and doing such light labours as were suitable to their weaker frames.
SIR, When the Minister of Public Instruction entrusted me with the study of the Ancient American Civilisations, you wished to become associated with my labours in a truly munificent spirit.
Two explorers have visited it of late; one is the Swiss Bernouilli, whose labours were interrupted by death, but whose documents upon Tikal are as priceless as they are interesting.
First in rank and importance stands Don Perez Castro, a Colonel of the Artillery, appointed by the Mexican Government to watch and share my labours and discoveries.
Our labours in the palace did not prevent our making explorations on the hill or mountain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "labours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
