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He occasionally consented to be employed in special diplomatic missions, but the serious avocations of his life now became theological and literary. He sought in his own words to penetrate himself still more deeply than ever with the spirit of the reformation, and to imbue the minds of the young with that deep love for the reformed religion which had been the guiding thought of his own career.
Thus, though I sometimes, among other literary avocations, turned my thoughts to the continuation of the romance which I had commenced, yet, as I could not find what I had already written, after searching such repositories as were within my reach, and was too indolent to attempt to write it anew from memory, I as often laid aside all thoughts of that nature.
Lady Adela had gone through enough to feel with ready tact what would be least jarring to each. She had persuaded Bertha to go back to London, both to her many avocations and to receive Amice, who must still be kept at a distance for some time. Lord Northmoor, as soon as he had strength and self-command for it, read poor Mrs.
Under natural conditions there is enough faculty in a man's ten fingers to supply his own needs, and all the avocations needful to life may meet under one hat. The familiar illustration of the number of men required to make a pin is typical of that contemptible futility to which what is called civilisation reduces men by mere dispersal of labour.
She was of a nature so delicately sensitive to the most refined shades of honor, that she apprehended at once that there must be a conflict, though, judging by her own impulsive nature, she made no doubt that all would at once go down before the mighty force of reawakened love. After breakfast she would insist upon following Mary about through all her avocations.
I do not mean to exclude the society of the father, of course; but the father's avocations usually call him away from home, or at least from the immediate presence of his children, for a very considerable proportion of his time.
It is at once more speedy and secure, and less cumbersome to such patients as are obliged to continue domestic avocations. The present case is somewhat more severe than those which have been already given, and what is of great importance, the caustic was not applied immediately after the accident.
Mingled with this favorite pursuit were the multiplied avocations resulting from the high office he had lately filled. He was engaged in an extensive correspondence with the friends most dear to his heart the foreign and American officers who had served under him during the late war and with almost every conspicuous political personage of his own, and with many of other countries.
The companies and regiments perpetually moving from point to point in Paris seem to be composed chiefly of boys; every student is enrolled, and the period of service must always be deducted in any plan for life made by the family. Naturally, then, these gaps are filled by women, not only in all ordinary avocations, but in the trades which are equally affected by this perpetual drain.
"You know that the trading community of India, comprehended under the general term of Baniahs, is divided into numerous castes, which transmit their avocations from father to son and preserve themselves free from intermixture with others.
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