Assuredly we spend far too much labor and outlay in preparation for life.
Like the life of most people, they resemble rather a preparation for a work than the latter in its accomplishment.
She had been making various changes and arrangements in the house in preparation for it; but she had no notion that it was so near.
It is a common ceremony as a preparation for war: the warriors of the tribe jump about with violent gesticulations and shouts, brandishing weapons and mimicking the acts of attacking and slaying enemies.
For this reason there is always need of detailed investigations of particular myths as a preparation for a general history of mythology.
At this stage of social growth the stress is laid on preparation for marriage in the ceremonies of puberty and initiation.
Precautions are taken to guard against antagonistic extrahuman influences; there are taboos and rules of purification in preparation for hunting.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
No doubt postgraduate work will be continued mainly in the research direction, but undergraduate day and continuation courses will be devoted mainly to preparation for business.
Examples in other lines of business could be cited to show that a knowledge of technical details is not the most important element in a preparation for a profession or for business.
This need suggests a capital weakness of the training for the doctorate in philosophy as a preparation for teaching.
In 1693 George Keith, a leading Quaker of his day, came forward as a promoter of the religious training of the slaves as a preparation for emancipation.
A southerner to the manner born, he did not share the zeal of the antislavery men who would educate Negroes as a preparation for manumission.
Mitchell's divisions of the Third Corps were posted, not in preparation for battle, several hundred yards to McCook's right, but supposed to be near enough to protect it.
This was evidently in preparation for an agreement made in 1638 for mutual extradition.
Preparation for Action At the second level, the inner state that partly governs the response is more neural than chemical, and is directed {75} specifically towards a certain end-result.
It was now settled that a new campaign, both East and West, should open in April, if possible, and everything else was to be made subservient to preparation for it.
No wonder that with the coming of the latter days, and the proclamation of the message of preparation for Christ's second coming, there should come a call to Christians to follow Christ and Holy Scripture in keeping God's holy Sabbath.
At the date of my annual report to Congress in December, 1877, it was deemed necessary, as a preparation for resumption, to accumulate in the treasury a coin reserve of at least forty per cent.
The only benefit I derived was the habit I formed of writing upon such subjects as attracted my attention by reading, a habit I continued when studying law, in preparing a case for trial, and in preparation for a debate in Congress.
The surplus revenue had also, under the same authority, been applied to the redemption of the residue of United States notes, not redeemed by the sale of coin, and the balance was held in the treasury in preparation for resumption.
They can never, however, he says, count upon the good-will of the enemy, and are obliged to live in a constant state of preparation for war.
A raising of the embargo would be a preparation for war--it would bring us articles of the first necessity for our surplus.
I certainly understood that committee as recommending the measures now before the House as a preparation for war; and such in fact was its express resolve, agreed to, I believe, by every member except that gentleman.
I have stated that I considered the return of our citizens, the security of our property, and the employment of time in preparation for war, as the great and more certain effects of the embargo.
But as a preparation for war, it is still worse; because it produces a deficiency of that out of which war alone cannot be sustained.
My stay in Albany was prolonged by preparation for lectures at Troy and Schenectady, and by needed information concerning the early history and development of the former city.
Thomas Babcock, who had been acting as an assistant to my advance agents, accompanied me as far as Geddes, and arranged to co-operate with my brother and Mr. Farrington in preparation for my lecture.
The temptation to make the most of my literary ventures lured me on from year to year until 1875, when I laid down the pen and began preparation for my long contemplated and oft deferred journey across the Continent.
It is impossible to predict the sort of work that the combined labour of man and woman will produce when they possess a preparation for it that will be practically upon both sides equal.
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