Our information respecting Hesiod is derived in the main from notices and allusions in the works attributed to him, and to these must be added traditions concerning his death and burial gathered from later writers.
"The Works and Days": The poem consists of four main sections.
Everything was placed under a complete system of discipline, and the works were commenced in most perfect order.
Nevertheless, the works advanced regularly, as the steam-cranes actively removed the rubbish.
Those who can read German will find an excellent guide, in this respect, in Frau Foerster-Nietzsche's exhaustive and highly interesting biography of her brother: "Das Leben Friedrich Nietzsche's" (published by Naumann); while
the works of Deussen, Raoul Richter, and Baroness Isabelle von Unger- Sternberg, will be found to throw useful and necessary light upon many questions which it would be difficult for a sister to touch upon.
It is only to be regretted [49] that in the later collected edition of
the works those two magical old volumes are broken up and scattered under other headings.
In the evening he cut out the work, and went to bed early, that he might get up and begin betimes next day; but he was saved all the trouble, for when he got up in the morning the work was done ready to his hand.
As soon as it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs; and they sat themselves upon the shoemaker's bench, took up all the work that was cut out, and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping away at such a rate, that the shoemaker was all wonder, and could not take his eyes off them.
Washington Whose patience, fidelity, and hard work have gone far to make the work at Tuskegee successful.
Washington's success is, then, not his teaching the pupils of Tuskegee, nor even gaining the support of philanthropic persons at a distance, but this--that every Southern white man of character and of wisdom has been won to a cordial recognition of the value of the work, even men who held and still hold to the conviction that a mere book education for the Southern blacks under present conditions is a positive evil.
* The Second Revolt was largely the work of Ernest Everhard, though he cooperated, of course, with the European leaders.
Your hands are soft with the work others have performed for you.
You will bring home
the work as it is finished, and your money will be always ready.
The longer Levin mowed, the oftener he felt the moments of unconsciousness in which it seemed not his hands that swung the scythe, but the scythe mowing of itself, a body full of life and consciousness of its own, and as though by magic, without thinking of it,
the work turned out regular and well-finished of itself.
In parts, only little bits, in other parts, large portions of a rhombic plate had been left between the opposed basins, but
the work, from the unnatural state of things, had not been neatly performed.