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At Buitenzorg, in addition to a museum containing an extensive herbarium and a botanical library of over five thousand volumes, there are numerous laboratories and offices accommodating the curator and his three assistants, and draughtsmen, who are competent to employ the methods of photography and lithography in reproducing the forms of plants.
He hoped by diligently supplying the officers' messes in Brussels with poultry and vegetables that he and his assistants two corporals might be overlooked and not sent back into the fighting ranks. As to her daughters, after a few months of promiscuity a terrible time that Mme. Oudekens wanted to forget they had been assigned to the two corporals as their exclusive property.
The evening moved through its dark and sombre hours unchanged; Joseph's assistants opened and opened and opened the door. More flowers more flowers and more. Certain persons went quietly upstairs, women in rich furs, and bare-headed, uncomfortable-looking men, entered the front room, and passed through with serious faces and slowly shaking heads.
In June, 1840, after the final examination, the class graduated and we received our diplomas. Meantime, Major Delafield, United States Engineers, had become Superintendent; Major C. F. Smith, Commandant of Cadets; but the corps of professors and assistants remained almost unchanged during our whole term.
His day is filled with cataloguing, arranging and classifying them, searching catalogues, selecting new books, correspondence, directing assistants, keeping library records, adjusting accounts, etc., in the midst of which he is constantly at the call of the public for books and information. What time has he, wearied by the day's multifarious and exacting labors, for any thorough study of books?
But the Lord who alone knows us rightly will forgive them, and make Himself known to them if it pleases Him, and then they will know us. Found guilty of clipping coin, he was punished as above; Records of the Court of Assistants, I. 145. 13th, Saturday. As we had promised Mr. Eliot to call upon him again, we went to Roxbury this morning.
The Law and Order people could legally call on the federal forces, which would be compelled to respond. If the Committee of Vigilance did not fall into this trap, then the Law and Order people would have the muskets anyway. To carry out this plot they called in a saturnine, lank, drunken individual whose name was Hube Maloney. Maloney picked out two men of his own type as assistants.
In the ebb and flow of popular enthusiasm many republicans who had fallen back before the storms of factional excesses were now willing to come forward, and Napoleon, not publicly committed to the Jacobins, was able to win many capable assistants from among men of his class.
'I went into the parlour, which used to be instinct with life; "Poor Sir Thomas; always in trouble," said the woman who had the care of the house, "always something to worrit him." I saw his bed-room small only a little bed the mark of it was against the wall. It must have been five or six small rooms turned into one large workshop. Here his assistants worked.
Astronomy must have its observatory, chemistry its laboratory; but mathematics asks only personal disposition and a few books. No great expenditures are called for, nor the services of assistants. One would think that nothing could be more congenial, nothing more delightful, even in the retirement of monastic life.
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