It is highly probable that these poems were interpolations into the "Catalogues" expanded by later poets from more summary notices in the genuine Hesiodic
work and subsequently detached from their contexts and treated as independent.
As ants
work by inherited instincts and by inherited tools or weapons, and not by acquired knowledge and manufactured instruments, a perfect division of labour could be effected with them only by the workers being sterile; for had they been fertile, they would have intercrossed, and their instincts and structure would have become blended.
At this point the excavation exhibited a depth of six and a half feet and the
work of the masonry was begun.
If I break you in, I'll be doing plenty of your
work at first.
One evening, about Christmas-time, as he and his wife were sitting over the fire chatting together, he said to her, 'I should like to sit up and watch tonight, that we may see who it is that comes and does my
work for me.' The wife liked the thought; so they left a light burning, and hid themselves in a corner of the room, behind a curtain that was hung up there, and watched what would happen.
Perhaps it would be as well to start out with a broad and rapid sketch of Nietzsche as a writer on Morals, Evolution, and Sociology, so that the reader may be prepared to pick out for himself, so to speak, all passages in this
work bearing in any way upon Nietzsche's views in those three important branches of knowledge.
Browning's most perfect piece of
work, for pregnancy of intellect, combined with faultless expression in a perfectly novel yet symmetrical outline: and he is very likely right.
Month in and month out, the shortest day I ever
worked was ten hours.
Ogden, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute and the intimate friend of General Armstrong during the whole period of his educational
work.
"His test of truth is: 'Will it
work? Will you trust your life to it?'"
In ten minutes more Jurgis had pulled off his coat and overshirt, and set his teeth together and gone to
work. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer!
You will bring home the
work as it is finished, and your money will be always ready.