Word: toils
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Appleton Chapel yesterday evening Professor Lyon spoke on the necessity of work, John ix, 4. He said: Every one must work. The abolition of slavery did away with the idea that toil is degrading, and the present age exacts of each his daily task. Even the wealthy seek some useful employment. Work brings health, peace and happiness, and wonderfully develops the worker's character; how many put off work until the night comes! To how many does the sun pass into eclipse at noon-day! Christ's life of work was that of a young man, and his teachings...
...theatre-going public in general. The humor of Mr. Murphy's parts in "Shaun Rhue" and "Kerry Gow" is as delightfully dry as an average English Y lecture, and the remembrance of an evening passed in his company is an oasis in the CRIMSON editor's desert of toil...
...Robinson Crusoe, is Colonel Jack. The book has curiously enough, never before been published in America. In Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe took for his hero an English slaveholder, shipwrecked on the coast of Guinea while going for more slaves; in Colonel Jack, he chose a while slave bound to toil under the "apprenticeship" system of the American colony of Virginia. The style is exactly that of the more celebrated work, and presents the life of the slave in comparison with that other great novel which deals with the fortunes of a slaveholder. The book is edited and abridged by Edward Everett...