Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...world. He felt this to be his solemn duty, and asserted the same recently in one of his lectures, and also remarked, that, although willing and ready to give information to any asking it, he yet desired that his time should not be taken up by senseless questionings. Overwork was perhaps the cause of his death. After his last lecture at Fitchburg he seemed completely exhausted, and wrote to discontinue some of his engagements; but he did not adopt this measure soon enough to give his system the rest it needed...
...condemn in despatch. It is liable to deteriorate, and result in hurry and confusion, which seldom succeed, even under favorable circumstances. Foreigners notice especially the fast way in which our business men get through life. As though the fund of energy from which they draw were inexhaustible, they overwork the mind by continuous and intense toil; driving through life with an anxious, careworn look, and without consideration, giving themselves up to labor, so that middle age finds them with the work of life accomplished; worn out, and unable to obtain enjoyment from the pleasures which might be theirs. Among...