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On the other side, the pains and diligence of ill poets is but thrown away when they want the genius to invent and feign agreeably.
Afterwards Duke Cosimo, for the marriage of Queen Joanna of Austria, his daughter-in-law, seven years after the death of Baccio, caused the audience-chamber in the Great Hall, begun by Baccio, of which we have spoken above, to be finished; and he chose that the head of this work of completion should be Giorgio Vasari, who has sought with all diligence to put right the many defects that would have been in it if it had been continued and finished after the original design followed in the beginning by Baccio.
And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. Marius paid no attention to Theodule. Elegant women descended from the diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around him. "He is pretty deeply in love!" thought Theodule. Marius directed his steps towards the church.
It was also understood that a specially interesting episode in the career of Old Brin constituted a pre-emption claim to guardianship, and, if acknowledged by the preceding guardian, the claim could not be jumped so long as it was worked with reasonable diligence.
It is the nuisance of day schools, and quite hurtful to study, if there is nobody at home to answer questions. I regard this as having been very beneficial to me at school, where I never had work enough set me to fill up half my time." The letter which follows is dated April, and in it we find that "Harry" had just returned home, and that his report had testified to his diligence and progress.
As for this last journey, all she knew about it was that Mam'selle had had her passport regulated for foreign parts the afternoon of the day before she started. "But can you not remember in what direction the diligence was going?" I asked, again and again. "No, M'sieur not in the least," "Nor the name of the town to which her place was taken?" "I don't know that I ever heard it, M'sieur."
On three days in the week we had civilian horsemanship, under the celebrated equestrians Jardin and Coupé, and we went there when it suited us. In the afternoon, an excellent veterinarian, M. Valois, ran a course on the care of horses; but no one compelled us to study with any diligence. The other three days were devoted to military matters.
As a soldier warreth, so shall he hear it said to him, Well done. And as a sinner keeps his heart with all diligence, and holds it fast till his King comes, so shall he hear it said to him, Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things.
Had Baudin been furnished with instructions to look for a place for French settlement, very little diligence and perspicacity would have enabled him to fix upon a spot suitable to the point of perfection before the English at Port Jackson knew of his whereabouts in these seas at all.
Therefore, as French scepticism then had among the Virginia lawyers and politicians its diligent missionaries, so, with the energy and directness that always characterized him, he determined to confront it, if possible, with an equal diligence; and he then deliberately made himself, while still a Virginia lawyer and politician, a missionary also, a missionary on behalf of rational and enlightened Christian faith.
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