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...ed the manner in which the ro- mance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” has acquir... ...aule had addressed him from the scaffold, and uttered a prophecy, of which history, as well as fireside tradi- tion, has preserved the very words. “Go... ...hich the sun was still mark- ing the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright. All around were scattere... ...worship, at that period, from the tradesman, with his plodding air, or the laborer, in his leath- ern jerkin, stealing awe-stricken into the house whi... ... plebeian and obscure; working with unsuccessful diligence at handicrafts; laboring on the wharves, or following the sea, as sailors before the mast; ... ...r chamber; only presuming, meanwhile, to note some of the heavy sighs that labored from her bosom, with little restraint as to their lugubrious depth ... ...with fresh blue sand. The brown scales, too, had evidently undergone rigid discipline, in an unavailing effort to rub off the rust, which, alas! had e...

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...ew England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly... ...ars. Without an estate, or any gainful employment, By constant labor and industry, with God’s blessing, They maintai... ...after looking round awhile and hearing nothing said, being very drowsy thro’ labor and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 25 want of rest the pre... ...was necessary, he suppos’d, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong to labor. I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by ... ...rticu larly procur’d us from the Quakers the printing forty sheets of their history, the rest being to be done by Keimer; and upon this we work’d exc... ..., Sir, I solicit the his tory of your life from the following motives: Your history is so remarkable, that if you do not give it, somebody else will ... ... our defenceless situation in strong lights, with the necessity of union and discipline for our defense, and promis’d to propose in a few days an asso... ...ry week to be instructed in the manual exercise, and other parts of military discipline. The women, by subscriptions among themselves, provided silk c... ...ight be well to publish the articles of their belief, and the rules of their discipline. He said that it had been propos’d among them, but not agreed ...

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...fashion or another: bashful, insolent; chaste, lust- ful; prating, silent; laborious, delicate; ingenious, heavy; melancholic, pleasant; lying, true; ... ...es discretion and prudence; and that even Venus can inflate boys under the discipline of the rod with boldness and resolution, and infuse masculine co... ... profound, sense- less, and dead a degree of drunkenness had I not read in history that Attalus having, to put a notable affront upon him, invited to ... ...vived their executioners.”—Seneca, Ep., 13.] “Multa dies, variusque labor mutabilis nevi Rettulit in melius; multos alterna revisens ... ... to be mixed with a little consent of the forced party. The ecclesiastical history has several examples of devout persons who have embraced death to s... ... “Un doulx nenny, avec un doulx sourire Est tant honneste.”—Marot. History is everywhere full of those who by a thousand ways have exchanged a... ...justice in this particular. A country-woman, to a general of a very severe discipline, accused one of his soldiers that he had taken from her children... ...ated, there are other causes enough to lay the fault on without blaming my discipline, which I know to be natural and just, and I should, in this, hav... ...arry their arms. Titus Livius speaking of our nation: “Intolerantissima laboris corpora vix arma humeris gerebant.” [“Bodies most impatient of labo...

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...stry and the devo- tion to his task of an artist. Twenty years and more he labored in collecting his material. He speaks frankly of his methods. He re... ... with the true devotion of an artist: ‘You cannot imagine,’ he says, ‘what labor, what perplexity, what vexa- tion I have endured in arranging a prodi... ...be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clear- ness of narration and elegance of language in which he... ... this circumstance, and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation. The history of his mind as to religion is an important article. I have mentione... ...ion of study which is pos- sible, and to which a few scholars in the whole history of literature have attained; for when I once asked him whether a pe... ...m their studies, if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline, which in his maturer years he so much extolled.’ I do not find ... ...times in playful allu- sion to the notions commonly entertained of his own laborious task. Thus: ‘Grub-street, the name of a street in London, much in... ...r students appear well in the University; and there are excellent rules of discipline in every college. That the rules are sometimes ill ob- served, m... ...nson quent speech by Lord Mansfield, who shewed himself an adept in school discipline, but I thought was too rigorous towards my client. On the evenin...

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...oming home from the college of Vendome in 1810, lived under close paternal discipline for three years. The tyranny by which the old man of seventy opp... ...wn beloved, is there not a tender calculation in thus revealing to you the history of the past? Does it not 102 The Marriage Contract extend our love... ...e, the rue de Rivoli. In all other places and countries material works and labors, marches and counter-marches, and sweatings of the brow are nec- ess...

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...entury. For further particulars relating to this singular man, see Warton’s History of English Poetry, vol. i. diss. ii. and sect. ix. p 292, and th... ...ons publicly in his palace, that they might be criticized by all.” Mariana, History of Spain, b. xiii. c. 9. An account of Thibault, and two of his ... ..., with what were probably the original melodies, may be seen in Dr. Burney’s History of Music, v. ii. c. iv. His poems, which are in the French langu... ...’er seen, What Saracens, for whom there needed scourge Of spiritual or other discipline, To force them walk with cov’ring on their limbs! But did they... ... lips I heard the warning sounds: “Too fix’d a gaze!” Awhile my vision labor’d; as when late Upon the’ o’erstrained eyes the sun hath smote: But... ... of the former of which places was Uberto, one master general, by whom the discipline had been relaxed; and of the latter, Matteo, another, who had ...

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...ature, and at one time had made several lively excursions into medi- aeval history. His friends thought him very clever, and at the same time had an e... ...fidence spend a couple of years in Germany, supposing it to be the land of laboratories. Here we find him at present, cultivating relations with sever... ...years—a period of his life of which it is not proposed to offer a complete history. The East is a wonderful region, and Bernard, investigating the mys... ...hat she might have profited by the sort of experience that is known as the discipline of suf- fering. What had become of Captain Lovelock and that ten... ...cimen. Gordon was away from home during much of the day; he had a chemical labora- tory in which he was greatly interested, and which he took Bernard ... ...his intelligence sufficiently in hand to contradict them with energy. “You labor under a monstrous delusion,” he exclaimed. “Your husband thinks you f... ...I think he would believe you, because he knows you know a great deal about history and all that. I don’t mean this evening, but some time when it is c...

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...he third part of a still larger design which was to have included an ideal history of Athens, as well as a political and physical philosophy. The frag... ...erhaps because Plato became sensible of some in congruity in a fictitious history, or because he had lost his interest in it, or because advancing ye... ... his friends. There is no absurdity in supposing that he may have laid his labors aside for a time, or turned from one work to another; and such inter... ..., and ought not to be judged by the rules of logic or the probabilities of history. The writer is not fashioning his ideas into an artistic whole; th... ...ll endeavour to explain, I replied. To keep watch dogs, who, from want of discipline or hunger, or some evil habit, or evil habit or other, would tur... ... and we, Glaucon, agree with them? Yes, he replied. But this, I said, is a laborious study, and therefore we had better go and learn of them; and they... ...he great amount of bodily exercise and to go through all the intellectual discipline and study which we require of him. Certainly, he said; he must ... ... the value which they set upon wealth? Certainly. Also in their penurious, laborious character; the individual only satisfies his necessary appetites,...