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...eriences of the late Victorian era. The bare record of facts, simply recorded, manages to be humorous rather than dull, no doubt because of the usual occupations of the authors. George Grossmith (1847-1912) was an actor and comedian. Weedon Grossmith (1852-1919) was an entertainer and illustrated the original work. (Summary by Martin Clifton)...

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...This book honors some of the occupations a child might choose when he or she grows up in Hawaii. We want to show children that the status of an occupation isn't as important as doing a job well. One of our goals was to picture children and adults who sp...

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...Mimi Josephson was born in Swansea in 1911 but spent much of her life in Cardiff and later in Cambridge. She had numerous occupations, being a schoolteacher, private teacher of gifted children and dyslexics, freelance journalist specialising in interviews (including ones of Dylan Thomas and Fred Hoyle), short story writer, and poet....

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...Excerpt: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pull...

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...PTER I ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE* THERE IS NOTHING more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any...

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...N FERRY SONG OF THE ANSWERER OUR OLD FEUILLAGE A SONG OF JOYS SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE SONG OF THE EXPOSITION SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT BIRDS OF PASSAGE Song of the Universal Pioneers! O Pioneers! To You France, Myself and Mine Year of Meteors With Antecedents A BROADWAY PAGEANT ...

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... military, airplane piloting, police work and in many of the professional occupations. It is natural that they would achieve in the martial areas si...

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...st Bloc citizens. When you‟ve tried to assimilate them into the low level occupations they have bankrupted your social welfare systems. And because ...

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...riences we find that some volunteer more time, some decide to change their occupations to these care-giving vocations, and some find that their self...

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... longer term inequalities based on people’s educations, work ethics, goals, occupations, et cetera. You are for a graduated income tax to pull back ...

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..., Green Eyes, Blond Hair, Weight 48.9 kg/108 lb, Height 1.5 meters/5 ft 2 in. Occupations: university student. Distinguishing Features: none. Prior ... ...Brown Eyes, Brown Hair, Weight 109.7 kg/242 lb, Height 1.8 meters/5 ft 11 in. Occupations: trucker, metalworker. Dual U.S./Canadian citizenship. Dis...

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... it shows how you react to successes and failures. ―The choices we make help us design our lives. We have a great deal of choice in the occupa...

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...him at a table for six. He had a habit of trying to guess other people’s occupations, and the couples were neat and casually dressed. If they didn...

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...mparing public sectors because all countries don‘t report the same public occupations and the various countries have far different percentages of pe... ...various countries have far different percentages of people in the various occupations. For example in the U.S. the military is a high percentage of ... ...ing diapers and tending to runny noses is not always the most rewarding of occupations. And childlessness reduces the odds for divorce by half. As m...

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... and everyone else’s for that matter. I now know the names, addresses and occupations of all Michael’s ex girlfriends, his uncles, auntie’s and frie...

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...attempt to convey an idea of the exact character of the studies, or of the occupations, in which he involved me, or led me the way. An excited and hig... ...al disor- der of my friend. His ordinary manner had vanished. His ordinary occupations were neglected or forgotten. He roamed from chamber to chamber ...

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...ts’ house—my more than sister—the beau tiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures. Everyone loved Elizabeth. The passionate an... ...roach in his letters and only took notice of my science by inquiring into my occupations more par ticularly than before. Winter, spring, and summer p... ...earts are regulated by the same Frankenstein 43 immutable laws. My trifling occupations take up my time and amuse me, and I am rewarded for any exert... ...al po etry of Greece and Rome! Frankenstein 47 Summer passed away in these occupations, and my return to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autu... ... man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within. The old man, whom I soon perceived to be blind, empl... ...tended the motions of the cottagers, and when they were dispersed in various occupations, I slept; the re mainder of the day was spent in observing m... ...mpossible. “The next morning Felix went out to his work, and after the usual occupations of Agatha were finished, the Arabian sat at the feet of the ... ...nd upon these histories, whilst my friends were em ployed in their ordinary occupations. “I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. The... ...compared to the roarings of the giant ocean. In this manner I distributed my occupations when I first arrived, but as I proceeded in my labour, it bec...

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...dford of Plymouth. I have never learned nor cared to learn of his commoner occupations, but certainly he was one of those shining and distinguished un...

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...dering and arrangement of which was at this time one of the most important occupations of a man’s whole day, and marked his fashion as much as in the ...

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... from those elementary feelings; and from the necessary character of rural occupations are more easily comprehended; and are more durable; and lastly,... ...he encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid c... ...and uni versal passions of men, the most general and interesting of their occupations, and the entire world of nature, from which I am at liberty to ...

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...confession. He attributed such stupidity on his part to the gravity of his occupations, his labors, the absorption in which his mind was held by certa... ...These words explained to the naval officer the nature of Troubert’s secret occupations, about which Birotteau often remarked in his silly way: “I can’...