There is nothing so calculated to impair the usefulness of what purports to be a purely benevolent enterprise, as its selfishness.

The last time,' says she, 'I did expect to get somethin'; for I asked only for a dollar to that noble society for providin' young men, a-strugglin' to prepare themselves for usefulness in the ministry, with some of the common necessaries of life, but she refused me.

His sphere of usefulness, oftentimes usefulness to himself, only, lies among the roseate clouds of the morn, or the spiritual essences of the cerulean regions, but, like other human beings, he cannot live on the zephyr breeze, or on the moonbeams flitting o'er the rippling stream.

The thirty-one years that remained to her after quitting Cowslip Green was as full of work and usefulness as the previous part of her life.

The company has my engineering record and must judge my usefulness by this.

Among these is the Hickory, a well-known and very common tree, celebrated rather for its usefulness than its beauty.

There is no objection to the skin and features of the negro; it is only the luxury of having slaves, or their usefulness for heavy work, which weighs in the scale against abolition.

And I should like to tell of the arduous training on the football field and in the gymnasium, by means of which Joel increased his sphere of usefulness on the Eleven, and learned to run with the ball as well as kick it, so proving the truth of an assertion made by Stephen Remsen, who had said, "With such long legs as those, March, you should be as fine a runner as you are a kicker.

Her virtue had dwelt in hardness, and she had poured forth her unstinted usefulness with a bitter smile upon her lips.

Now each man can bring his own little share of knowledge or usefulness into the common stock.

The Society for the Extension of Greater Usefulness among the Clergy. .

From the accompanying report of the Postmaster-General you will also perceive that that Department continues to extend its usefulness without impairing its resources or lessening the accommodations which it affords in the secure and rapid transportation of the mail.

I shall read your books with great interest, I am sure, and who knows how God means to prepare you for future usefulness along the path of pain?

Don José had a stalwart son, aged about sixteen, whom he had trained to active usefulness amid the monotonous ease of the torrid little municipality.

Called into the service of his country at a period of life when but few are prepared to enter upon its realities, his long career of public usefulness at home and abroad has always been honored by the public confidence, and was closed in the second office within the gift of the people.

Don't you think that there is a large field of usefulness before him?" "Yes," replied Dr. Latrobe, "if he will let politics alone.

He was cut off in his prime and in the midst of usefulness from his home, his religion, his family, his honor, and his influence; he was utterly ruined.

She is a large, rusty-looking vessel, without a sign of contraband of war, or of a chance of important usefulness about her; but she performed a valuable function.