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It was only by idleness and Archie and unhappiness and the fire and the tragic death of her child that she had come to realize that there were other people in the world besides herself and the few who were a necessary part of herself, and that these other lives were of importance to themselves and might be almost as important to her as her own.
Meantime, during his absence and the enforced idleness of the Catholic armies, there was an opportunity for the republicans to act with promptness and vigour. They displayed neither quality. Never had there been so much sluggishness as in the preparations for the campaign of 1606. The States' exchequer was lower than it had been for years. The republic was without friends.
Next follows a comment on the poverty of the American medical student. Dr. Wood says: "Even worse than this, however, is the fact that the summer between the winter courses is often not spent in study, but in idleness, or, not rarely, in acquiring in the school-room or harvest-field the pecuniary means of spending the subsequent winter in the city." Alas! this is too true.
More than as many others loitered carelessly about the decks below, somewhat similarly engaged; the whole wearing much the appearance of men who were set to perform certain immaterial tasks, more to escape the imputation of idleness than from any actual necessity that the same should be executed.
I take courage from you. Perhaps my voice has not gone to seed as Joseppi's has, poor man. Not that it had very far to go, but still it was second only to Caruso's, and that is something. How can it be that you improve with idleness, while I while we go the other way?" "I shall never dance like zat again," replied Olga, her eyes clouding.
When we are alone, we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not; for who is pleased with what he is?
It is important that those liable to these attacks should be kept employed. Nothing is so harmful as idleness. Everything tending to good health is of value, but the essentials of the treatment are found in soothing the spine as above, and stimulating the brain by the head rubbing.
She wept quietly, and felt that she was a sinner who loved her father and little nephew more than God. The Bible legend tells us that the absence of labor idleness was a condition of the first man's blessedness before the Fall.
And so she came straight in our wake, and I knew that we should have little breathing time before we should hear the barking of her guns. The skipper did not like to see my idleness or this display of inactive indifference. "Don't you think you might help?" he asked. "Help what help can I give? You don't suppose we can outsteam them, do you?"
Let us sit among the flowers. It is too hot to labor. Let us warm ourselves beside the public stove. It is too cold to work. But what? Such conduct, you say, will not be allowed in the commonwealth. Idleness and slovenly, careless work will be forbidden?
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