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... labour . There is no remedy . I guess ( as Mathews makes his Yankees say ) that we shall not be troubled with visitors , and I calculate that I will not go out at all ; so what can I do better than labour ? Even yesterday I went about ...
... labour . There is no remedy . I guess ( as Mathews makes his Yankees say ) that we shall not be troubled with visitors , and I calculate that I will not go out at all ; so what can I do better than labour ? Even yesterday I went about ...
Page 471
... labour , finishd the review , talis qualis , and sent it off . Commenced then my infernal work of putting to rights . Much cry and little woo ' , as the deil said when he shore the sow . But I have detected one or two things that had ...
... labour , finishd the review , talis qualis , and sent it off . Commenced then my infernal work of putting to rights . Much cry and little woo ' , as the deil said when he shore the sow . But I have detected one or two things that had ...
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... labour ; but [ if ] I could employ to purpose the hours that indolence and lassitude steal from me , they would have cause to wonder indeed . But day must have night , vigilance must have sleep , and labour , bodily or mental , must ...
... labour ; but [ if ] I could employ to purpose the hours that indolence and lassitude steal from me , they would have cause to wonder indeed . But day must have night , vigilance must have sleep , and labour , bodily or mental , must ...
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