Word: labors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Johnson's life was one of hard and poverty-stricken labor. At the age of twenty-six he had married a woman of forty-eight who had no beauty and very little fortune. Johnson was besides encumbered by several pensioners, even poorer than he, whose misfortunes had excited his pity. "The Rambler," "The Lives of the Poets," and the Dictionary-finished in 1755 after a Jacobean struggle of seven years-had brought the doctor fame, but comparatively little money. In 1759, however, came a pension of three hundred pounds from the government and it is from the subsequent brighter days...
...Macedonian conquest. That it should have reached into the hundreds of millions is a miracle, and it was to contemplate this phenomenon that this lecture goes back to the early ages. How was it possible that such a result should be attained? Why should so large an amount of labor have been put into this form of wealth, when the conditions of human existence were so strait and painful? Why, when bread was scarce almost to the point of famine, should men have dug for gold...
...farming" the mines which greatly reduced their productiveness, as only the best ores were extracted and the works were of a temporary nature. The mines were worked by slaves and convicts. Suddenly the Barbarians appeared on the borders of the Empire. Millions flocked to their standards. Thus was the labor supply of the mines cut off. The industry of mining was doomed. Mr. Jacob has estimated that the L385,000,000 sterling which existed in 14 A. D. wasted away to L33,000,000 in 806. Thus the world of Augustus was in possession of a vast amount of treasure...
...seriously consider the subject of the public school work. There is need of a higher degree of efficiency in teachers in many states, but there is still greater need of a keener appreciation on the part of the public of the teachers' work and the difficulties under which they labor. In general it may be said that every community has the kind of public schools that it deserves to have...
...American Federation of Labor...