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He was obstinate, and rigidly opposed to everything new, where everybody else was led away by novelty. In this he was peculiarly the representative of the old days, and people respected him as such. The apprentices alone did not respect him. They did everything they could to vex him and to retaliate on him for being such a severe task-master.
'Japhet shall dwell in the tents of Shem, for they are world wide; but woe to him if, in his day, he refuse to build the temple which, in his day, his God will also require of him. Woe to him, if he think to put upon another age and race the tasks which his Task-Master will require of him, which, with his many gifts, with his chief gifts, with his ten talents, will surely be required of him.
This sum, about one hundred dollars, he had when he was thrown out of employment scarcely enough to last for three months, under their present expenses. It was with painful reluctance that Wilmer trespassed upon this precious store, but he found necessity a hard task-master.
She wished her father would go away because she wanted to think of a hundred details of the next forty-eight hours and her nerves were giving warning that their limit of endurance was near at hand. This big, awkward man who was so harsh a task-master to the world and so abject a slave to her own useless little self annoyed her. He offended in an even deeper sense he did not interest her.
I vill go into der market and see if dere's enough for me to keep my bart of der bargain goot." For half an hour Dennis worked away lustily, and then called his task-master and said, "Will you accept the job?" Surveying with surprise the large space cleared, and looking in vain for reason to find fault, he said: "I say nothin' agin him. I hope you vill eat your dinner as quick.
With the insulting injustice of an Egyptian task-master, you demand the work, and deny the necessary materials. I admit, that with respect to the opportunities of acquiring knowledge, institutions and manners are, as you have stated, much in favour of our sex; but your argument concerning time appears to me to be unfounded.
"Did you not put your horse to a gallop when you turned your back on your old master?" "Not a word of that, Jean. Let us not think of ourselves. There is work to do for our king. He is our task-master now." "You are in a hurry for another master," said Jean. "I am not tired of being my own master yet." "I wish you would make your people masters of themselves, Jean. They are not fit for power.
In the sense in which a hard task-master is not content with his slave, when he flogs him cruelly for the slightest fault? Or in the sense in which a loving father is not content with his child, grieving over him, counselling him, as long as he sees him, even in the slightest matter, doing less well than he might do?
Fenshawe's eyes to the character of his associates, for Dick had no manner of doubt that Mrs. Haxton was the leading spirit in the plot of which the millionaire was the "dupe," according to the lawyer. But Royson had found adversity a hard task-master.
There and then, with this mysterious, perverse wisdom, his task-master began his training, blinding the eyes of the pupil to all save the few immediate steps along the steep road that lay before, permitting him to advance only step by step, under her guidance.
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