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We accordingly went, and found him sitting at a small table, and apparently exhausted with the labour of composition, and the ardour of intense thought.

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But surely, if one man makes as much as several consume, (and this he can easily do with us,) he will be able to get much of their labour in exchange for this surplus, which is so indispensable to them, and to get more and more, until the greatest number has come into existence which such surplus can support.

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(1073-1086), labour for liturgical reform?

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He was labouring under a pleurisy, which is not unfrequent in the mountainous region, at this season.

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Wigurd, our host, often laboured with his accustomed zeal, to prove that every one who opposed him, was either a fool, or biassed by some petty interest, or the dupe of blind prejudice.

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Such was the wonderful being, who relinquished the retirement, the tranquillity, the comforts, that he loved and enjoyed, to embark in labours at which the most hardy might tremble; to plunge in perils from which the most resolute might recede without a diminution of honour.

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The tides in conflict with the wind's command, Turned tossing, wearily I heard the loud sea labouring to the land I saw the dumb land striving with the sea.

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Can we fail to admire and to venerate the unexampled ardour, purity, and perseverance, with which he exercised the peculiar virtue so distinguished by our Lord?While we behold him sublimely pre-eminent in this Christian perfection, shall we not cherish the delightful idea, that his heavenly rewards will be finally adequate to his unrivaled labours on earth?

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It seems astonishing that a man should stick year after year to such labour as this.

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If a person say the same Hour (e.g., Terce) twice, may he compensate for extra labour by the omission of an equivalent part (e.g., None)?

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" The Apostle of God is quoted as enforcing upon the master to give his slave the same clothing as himself, and not to exact more labour from him than he can perform.

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For some years Moffat laboured without seeing much result.

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XI COMMERCIAL PROSPERITY THE PROSPERITY OF A CLASS The economics of the statement that "commercial prosperity means little more than the prosperity of a class" may be roughly indicated by the following considerations: International trade means division of labour among the nations.

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Mr. Budworth was certainly no stranger to the learning or abilities of Johnson; as he more than once lamented his having been under the necessity of declining the engagement, from an apprehension that the paralytick affection, under which our great Philologist laboured through life, might become the object of imitation or of ridicule, among his pupils.'

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I have many grasshoppers, and seem to have less time and more labour than ever.

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But there is another inflow which is drawing close attention, the inflow of cheap foreign labour into our towns.

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Sweat blinded my eyes, and the fatigues of yesterday made my breath labour like a foundered horse.

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Thus, the transportation companies in the United States have seriously made a claim against the United States Government for damages to their roads, amounting to $750,000,000, claimed to be due to the inefficiency of labour during the period of governmental operation.

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For ten minutes we stared at him fascinated, during which time the ship laboured against the staggering winds, gained and lost in its buffeting with the great surges.

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And, therefore, Easter day says, There is something better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy himself, for to-morrow he may die, and all be over; and that something is, to labour not merely for the meat which perishes with the perishing body, but to labour after the fruits of the spiritlove, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.

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remained upon the farms and still followed that occupation, which, of all occupations, still preserves, in its integrity, the dominance of human labour over the machine.

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Our first gun to go up took twenty-four hours of continuous labour between the time of starting up the track and the time of arriving in position, a distance of only about two miles of zig-zag.

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The capital ship (and the only real square-rigged 'ship') of this Lilliputian fleet was Pringle's Inflexible, which had been taken up the Richelieu in sections and hauled past the portages with immense labour before reaching St Johns, whence there is a clear run upstream to Lake Champlain.

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Even the relator of feigned adventures, when once the principal characters are established, and the great events regularly connected, finds incidents and episodes crowding upon his mind; every change opens new views, and the latter part of the story grows without labour out of the former.

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This is a division of labour amongst Mahometans and Israelites not unfrequent in North Africa.

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