If he pursues his science in all his intervals from his class-work, his classes suffer on account of his engrossments; if he devotes himself to his students, science suffers; and yet we all go on, year after year, trying to work the two fields together, and they need different culture and different implements.

In later work from his pen we also see the Laureatefor he has now received official recognition from his nationin his relations to the culture as well as to the thought of his time, keeping pace with the age in all its complex engrossments and problems.

I had, at Mr Peacock's suggestion, raised my rate from 60 to 100 guineas for three terms: this prevented some from applying to me, and induced some to withdraw who had been connected with me: but it did me no real hurt, for engrossment by pupils is the worst of all things that can happen to a man who hopes to distinguish himself.

Engrossments are proceeding with.

In truth, we had much of the character of childhood in these pursuitslight-heartedness, wonder, boundless hope, engrossment with the present, carelessness of the future.

Perhaps that was just it; they had always something to do, something outside of themselves,in their honest, earnest lives there was little to tempt them to a frivolous self-engrossment.

of the "Inferno," where Benvenuto, speaking of the power of mental engrossment or moral affections to overcome physical pain, says, "As I, indeed, have seen a sick man cause the poem of Dante to be brought to him for relief from the burning pains of fever.

That is to say, there were very many more small farms than large plantations devoted to cotton; and among the plantations, furthermore, it appears that very few were upon a scale entitling them to be called great, for the nature of the industry did not encourage the engrossment of more than sixty laborers under a single manager.

Even in the more rugged parts of the cotton belt and in the tobacco zone as well, the same tendency toward the engrossment of estates prevailed, though in milder degree and with lesser effects.