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The criminologist must face the fact that, in spite of contrary pretenses by most of our social doctors, we are still in our work-a-day life guided almost exclusively by the mores the folk-ways of old founded on expediency as revealed by experiences, and acquired by the only known process, that of trial and error.
It was one of the moments when all mankind seems to be a-pleasuring, and to have laid aside all memory of the labors and the pains of this work-a-day world. Mrs.
Following my friend's directions, we had met at Paterson, and, desirous of finding our green pasture and still waters with the least possible delay, we took a trolley running in the Newark direction, and were presently dropped at a quaint, quiet little village called Little Falls, the last we were to see of the modern work-a-day world for several miles.
She is so lovely that one's heart goes out to her instinctively, but it never seemed possible to think of her as a part of my work-a-day life. It's dreary work walking in the cold grey light and realising that the dream is over, but I shall pull myself together as time goes on, and make the best of what remains." "You will be surprised to discover how much that is!
"Sophia, with her mistakes, her adventures, and her final surrender; Sophia moving among the eighteenth century world of fashion at Vauxhall; Sophia flying through the country roads, pursued by an adventurer, and Sophia captured by her husband, transport one so far from this work-a-day life that the reader comes back surprised to find that this prosaic world is still here after that too-brief excursion into the realm of fancy."
It represents the best of each journey in the most attractive form. Mr. Scott is to be heartily congratulated on his work." The Queenslander. "This handy book of exploration in Australia ... picks out the most noted expeditions of Australian history, and presents them in a form in which they should find most acceptance from the work-a-day world.
Oh, the joy the rapture! to pass away from all the tortures of this "work-a-day world" to a land unknown, but surely full of rest. To die to disappear! To court a glad forgetfulness! In this alone lies hope, and, that sweetest of all sweet things, indifference.
Her face was scarlet as she glanced at her feet; he who had wanted to give her the silk stockings how would he like to be seen walking abroad with those two clumsy, clattering, work-a-day, little sabots? "Never mind.
He was a pretty good sort after all. Just a very human, contented, work-a-day man who liked other good fellows, was sorry for those who took life too seriously, never did any person a contemplated harm, knew neither malice nor envy, was always a booster and never a knocker, and whose sense of humor was generously given out for expansion rather than preserved to harass his own soul.
The gleams of festal splendor seemed interwoven with the laborious bustle on the quay like scraps of gold thread in a dull work-a-day garment. Euergetes, brother of the king, was keeping his birthday in Memphis to- day, and all the city was to take part in the festivities.
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