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Otherwise all their present efforts would be useless; and his Majesty therefore consented on this occasion to enter into the new league proposed by the States with all the princes and states mentioned in the memoir of the ambassadors for mutual assistance against all unjust occupations, attempts, and baneful intrigues.
Athos immediately began and offered in due form the hand of the Princess Henrietta Stuart to the young prince, the king's brother. The conference lasted an hour; after which the doors of the chamber were thrown open to the courtiers, who resumed their places as if nothing had been kept from them in the occupations of that evening.
He uttered a few words of solemn advice to those who came near him, and took affecting leave of his friends. Langton, so warmly loved, was in close attendance. Johnson said to him tenderly, Te teneam moriens deficiente manu. Windham broke from political occupations to sit by the dying man; once Langton found Burke sitting by his bedside with three or four friends.
He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.
Fenwick was nearing the end, he explained, of a series of rustic 'Months' with their appropriate occupations an idea which had haunted his mind for years. 'As old as the hills, said Watson, 'but none the worse for that. You've painted them, I suppose, out-of-doors? Fenwick shrugged his shoulders. 'As much as possible. 'Ah, that's where those French fellows have us, said Watson, languidly.
Every night when I lie down I reflect that another day is cut off from the tiresome time of absence. Your affectionate son, Shelford: April 26 1813. My dear Papa, Since I have given you a detail of weekly duties, I hope you will be pleased to be informed of my Sunday's occupations. It is quite a day of rest here, and I really look to it with pleasure through the whole of the week.
If things be attentively considered, it will be found that almost the whole conduct of man the entire system of his actions his occupations his connexions his studies his amusements his manners his customs his very garments even his aliments, are the effect of habit.
He would dream during a meal, even; and, without actually saying so, he gave the impression that he was the busiest man in Bursley, wrapped in occupations and preoccupations as in a blanket a blanket which Constance had difficulty in penetrating.
Foolish Clara!" resounded in his soul. Nevertheless, Arátoff passed the following day in a fairly tranquil manner. He was even able to devote himself to his customary occupations. There was only one thing: both during his busy time and in his leisure moments he thought incessantly of Clara, of what Kupfer had told him the day before.
The gains of both are mutual and reciprocal, and the division of labour is in this, as in all other cases, advantageous to all the different persons employed in the various occupations into which it is subdivided.
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