Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obliged either to keep on the flagging, and go ankle deep in water, or step off the path and flounder ankle deep in mud. Now the expenditure of ten dollars would right this state of things: a small tile pipe would remedy the first defect, and a few hours labor straightening the stones would remedy the second. Let us hope that the authorities who are so eager that we shall tread in straight paths, will at least make them easy for our weary feet as possible...
Whoever takes notes with care, even copying them after each day's lecture, is surely well repaid by what he has as a result of his labor at the end of the year. To own books is rightly deemed a great advantage. It is more true of making books. If to own is to profit. A carefully written, and thoroughly indexed note-book is invaluable. The student who knows how to take notes, and is ready to apply what he knows, can make for himself the most valuable part of his library...
...then, it may be said, should we waste effort in trying to accomplish that which, if not settled already, can never come about? If all things spring necessarily from the seeds sown in the beginning, what need is there that we should till the field of life with our labor or water it with our tears? Let us watch and be patient! we shall reap as much as if we worked. But this is not an inevitable conclusion; on the contrary, that very law which decrees that all things shall follow necessarily from their causes, decrees that our least effort...
...clashing of knives and forks that followed the taking of these pictures was a strong argument in favor of the lunches; or else the twenty seconds of restraint and cessation from labor were almost too much for hunger and human nature...
...United States was the lack of original sources of all European, and of early American history. These records are all in Europe and contain a great mass of unpublished matter. By consulting these documents, an investigator in the old Counties is sure to be rewarded for his labor by some discovery...