As the matter is of slight or no importance, I have not been at much pains to ascertain the very day on which Shelley's son by Harriett was born.
Why then am I at somuch pains to call attention to the evidence that Shelley was not strongly interested in his first-born child, and that in this particular Harriett resembled him?
It was she who always made out the bills, for though she had not a great number of lessons from the writing-master, she had taken so much pains to learn that she could write a very neat, legible hand, and she found this very useful.
And I see that they all dislike me; and yet I don't know why they should, for I take as much pains to please as any of them.
But strangely enough I did not falter in my allegiance to him, or realize that here in this free form was a deliverance, if I liked, from the fetters and manacles which I had been at so much pains to fit myself with.
But I need not have been at so much pains; the intelligence (I do not wish to boast) of an American author would have sufficed; for if there is anything more grotesque than another in war it is its monstrous inconsequence.
He undid my hands, which had taken so much pains to tie behind my back, and he forever persuaded me that though it may be ingenious and surprising to dance in chains, it is neither pretty nor useful.
The prince answered, "Mighty queen, the slave whom you take somuch pains to seek is my brother: I lost him, and have found him again.
They take up all the same no less ground, and cost at least as much pains to cultivate.
The Hypocrite would not be at so much Pains to put on the Appearance of Virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the Love and Esteem of Mankind.
A Poet should take as much Pains in forming his Imagination, as a Philosopher in cultivating his Understanding.
No Painter can give you Words for the different Aspects of Dulcissa in half a Moment, whereever she appears: So little does she accomplish what she takes so much pains for, to be gay and careless.
If then you will allow me, as I believe you may, to be a judge of what is useful and necessary to you, you must, in consequence, be convinced of the infinite importance of a point which I take so much pains to inculcate.
Observe the difference there is between minds cultivated, and minds uncultivated, and you will, I am sure, think that you cannot take too much pains, nor employ too much of your time in the culture of your own.
You have; I hope, that solidity and cohesion of parts; take now as much pains to get the lustre.
At length, with patience exhausted and hopes completely crushed, the engineer turned away from the machine which he had taken so much pains in constructing.
They take so much pains to make the surface smooth, that it kills the roots o' things.
In fine, the time was not yet come when she should be capable of being touched with that herself which she took so much pains to inspire in others.
There is no answering for events; but, in the way of thinking I now am, it seems not improbable, that I shall one day comply with what my friends take so much pains in persuading me to.
By doing this, he would be only discrediting and degrading the very theory which he had taken so much pains to inculcate upon Hermogenes.
Plato's reasoning here involves an admission of the very doctrine which he had before taken so much pains to confute--the doctrine that Cognition is Sensible Perception.
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