"The chief employment of the inhabitants, is the catching of fish.

Employments they say have been taxed, the reasons for which taxation will not hold with regard to property, at least till employments become inheritances.

Employment is the great instrument of intellectual dominion.

[Footnote 1: The employment of Hessian and Hanoverian troops in this war was not only the subject of frequent complaints in Parliament, but was also the cause of very general dissatisfaction in the country, where it was commonly regarded as one of the numerous instances in which the Ministers sacrificed the interests of England from an unworthy desire to maintain their places by humouring the king's preference for his native land.]

As the employment of slaves is different in the two parts of the world last m

The employment of the verb for the substantive in the present instance is an evidence of the antiquity of this play.

What a troublesome employment is love!"

Assuming the existence in each individual of a creative power of thought which, in relation to himself, reflects the same power existing in the Universal Mind, our right employment of this power becomes a matter of extreme moment to ourselves.

Its employment is often legalthe death proves to be of sufficient importance for the law (and the lawyers) to take notice.

The employment of soldiers to teach young ladies how to walk, which, we are sorry to say, is a practice adopted by many parents and heads of seminaries, is much to be deprecated.

Riches would now be useless, and high employment would be pain.

''The only employment extraneous to the Observatory which has occupied any of my time within the last year is the giving three Lectures on the Magnetism of Iron Ships (at the request of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education) in the Theatre of the South Kensington Museum.

Here they stayed about a week to clean their vessels, and fit them for a long voyage, determining to set sail for England; and, that the faithful Symerons might not go away unrewarded, broke up their pinnaces, and gave them the iron, the most valuable present in the world, to a nation whose only employments were war and hunting, and amongst whom show and luxury had no place.

Unless he had chosen to be maintained by his father, some employment besides that of book-making was an imperative necessity.

But acids unmixed will distort the face and torture the palate; and he that has no other qualities than penetration and asperity, he whose constant employment is detection and censure, who looks only to find faults, and speaks only to punish them, will soon be dreaded, hated and avoided.

His chief employment was the copying of precedents, with which he filled a folio book of 344 pages closely written.

The rapidly increasing employment of women to-day, then, is the usual, and happy, accompaniment of war.

This continuous employment without even a fear of cessation is an advantage, the value of which it is difficult to estimate.

The employment of force for the maintenance of right is the foundation of all civilised human life, for it is the fundamental function of the State, and apart from the State there is no civilisation, no life worth living.

The absurd prejudice, that public employment is the most honorable, will pass away.

The Tyrian workmen, coming immediately from the bosom of the mystical society of Dionysian artificers, whose sole employment was the erection of sacred edifices throughout all Asia Minor, indoctrinated the Jews with a part of their architectural skill, and bestowed upon them also a knowledge of those sacred Mysteries which they had practised at Tyre, and from which the present interior form of Freemasonry is said to be derived.

The teacher has, therefore, only to remove obstructions and sources of pain, and the employment of his pupils will be of itself a pleasure.

The only secular employment I remember to have seen her engaged in, was, the splitting of French beans, and dropping them into a China basin of fair water.

"Her employment is the drawing of maps.

The Vansittart's employment had been the examination of the north-east extreme of Tasmania, some portions of which were found to be nine miles out in latitude; the greater part was fronted with kelp and rocky patches.